Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya (Pantheon) 6 Rave • 8 Positive “Glides... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:43 UTC ]
Queer-Feminist Writing from 1970s Turkey: A Conversation with Maureen Freely on Sevgi Soysal, by Ipek Sahinler Interviews [email protected] Tue, 08/06/2024 - 16:31 Maureen Freely (left) & Funda Soysal (right)Maureen Freely is an author,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-08-06 21:31:04 UTC ]
The novel is both a path to freedom and a form of political activism for the Booker Award finalist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Shafak’s new novel weaves the tumultuous history of Cyprus into a story of young lovers split apart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-11-16 11:00:00 UTC ]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elif Shafak and Max Porter are among the authors and activists headlining English PEN’s centenary celebrations at the Southbank Centre this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-20 20:24:24 UTC ]
Elif Shafak, author of 2019 Booker-shortlisted 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Penguin), has now been sold in 54 international markets in translation, with a 55th under negotiation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-13 07:55:23 UTC ]
Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak and Roger Robinson are among the writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 11:07:07 UTC ]
Elif Shafak's 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Viking) has triumphed in a vote by Blackwell’s booksellers across the country to be named Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-01 15:21:12 UTC ]
Netflix has announced three new screen literary adaptations, including one rework based on Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love (Penguin), as its vice-president for international originals, Kelly Luegenbiehl, said the company wants to partner with publishers, not compete against them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 15:24:52 UTC ]
Two former winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, both made the cut—a week before Atwood's book, 'The Testaments,' has even been published. Lucy Ellmann, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, and Elif Shafak are also still in the race. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Capping this year's BookFest events at Frankfurt will be an evening with Margaret Atwood, Maja Lunde, Elif Shafak, Colson Whitehead, and Ken Follett. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019 BookFest Gala: Atwood, Follett, Lunde, Shafak, Whitehead appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-26 08:30:55 UTC ]
Publisher and translator express shock that version of Eleven Minutes published in Turkey had reference cutA Turkish publishing house is pulling its translation of the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes after readers discovered that the translation had removed a reference to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-07-17 10:34:52 UTC ]
Elif Shafak and Marina Warner are among the authors attending the Edinburgh Book Fringe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-11 07:26:52 UTC ]
Elif Shafak has revealed her selection of ten of the most exciting women writers working in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster and Elif Shafak have joined a number of other authors in criticising Russia’s treatment of Ukraine and calling for freedom of expression to be preserved. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Elif Shafak and Lucy Hughes-Hallett are named judges in London; the public is one of five judges in the Alabama-based Harper Lee Prize. The post Competition Notes: Sunday Times Prize Judges, Harper Lee Legal Fiction Prize Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta owner Sigrid Rausing has been shortlisted for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her book Everything is Wonderful (Grove Press), alongside authors including Helen Dunmore and Elif Shafak. The annual award of £10,000 is given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]