Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi won the Man Booker International Prize this year for its beautifully rendered portrayal of a family’s tangled history in the village of al-Awafi in Oman. The novel was the first book translated from Arabic to win the prize, and more surprisingly, it was the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-26 11:59:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton is publishing Veronica Roth's first novel for adults, Chosen Ones, after striking a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-20 08:51:10 UTC ]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reads the first novel in Isaac Asimov’s juvenile science fiction series Science fiction set in our own solar system arguably began with Lucian, the classical author whose short satirical piece True History paved the way for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2019-11-15 15:00:55 UTC ]
Her first novel first novel came out in 1778, when she was twenty-five, and made her famous. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2019-11-06 14:00:37 UTC ]
According to the Bookseller, Elena Ferrante’s first novel in five years will be published in English in June 2020 by Europa Editions. The Lying Life of Adults (great title? or greatest title?) is out in Italian this coming November 7, and the English version will, of course, appear in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-28 12:11:35 UTC ]
Daunt Books Publishing has acquired debut novel The Coming Bad Days by poet and academic Sarah Bernstein. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-24 06:01:24 UTC ]
In 2013, I moved to New York City alone. I had just divorced and graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop. My first novel had been released—waiting for it had been my only remaining tether to a former life. With its release, my last connection to the functional adult world was severed and I was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-23 08:48:27 UTC ]
In her first novel to be published in the UK, Catherine Chung tells the story of a gifted mathematician whose studies take her deep into her family history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 07:02:53 UTC ]
The first novel I published with a major house was about a murder I covered as a reporter when I was in my early twenties. The victim, who was my age, and lived in my neighborhood, disappeared in the winter and her body was found in the summer in a shallow grave in the woods […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-22 08:48:49 UTC ]
On this warm October day in Southern California, I walk the Venice canals and think of Kate Braverman. How in her sensational first novel Lithium for Medea she captured a Venice so distant that it’s difficult to accept that this version, which is polished and expensive and filled with tourists,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-22 08:48:36 UTC ]
Jokha Alharthi’s inventive multigenerational tale, “Celestial Bodies,” is also the first novel by an Omani woman to be translated into English. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-21 15:10:57 UTC ]
LOOK, IT MUST be said: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is a deeply strange text. A page-turning potboiler set 15 years after the events of the first novel and published over three decades later, and co-winner this week of the 2019 Booker Prize, it tells a story only barely connected to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-19 15:00:57 UTC ]
A novel featuring a 110-year-old character has won the £20,000 Daily Mail and Penguin Random House First Novel Competition, now in its fourth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 05:17:36 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired Irish children's laureate Sarah Crossan's first novel for adults in a six-figure deal at auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 04:39:48 UTC ]
Debut author Chikọdili Emelumadu has won the £3,000 Curtis Brown First Novel Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-10 07:07:47 UTC ]
Translating one medium into another is tricky. Music is music and art is art and dance is dance; to try to convey the power of another art in fiction is its own sleight-of-hand. My own first novel takes on that challenge. In A Song For A New Day, musician Luce Cannon was on the cusp […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-10-07 11:00:15 UTC ]
When I spoke with Linnea Hartsuyker back in 2017, her epic saga was just beginning. The first novel opens with her hero, Ragnvald, seeing a vision of a golden wolf who will unite the feuding kingdoms of Norway under one rule. The vision sets the course of Ragnvald’s life, bringing him into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-04 08:47:45 UTC ]
Lit Lists T. Patrick Ortez Fantasy is often overlooked when it comes to literature in translation, but from Gilgamesh to the Edda to The Epic of Darkness, fantasy lies at the heart of human storytelling. The genre has changed a lot since then, but fantasy... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-10-01 14:00:27 UTC ]
Man Booker-winning author Anne Enright’s next novel, Actress, about sexual power and celebrity, will be published by Jonathan Cape in February 2020. Jonathan Cape publisher Robin Robertson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada from Peter Straus of Rogers, Coleridge & White... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-27 08:38:57 UTC ]
Nick Hornby’s first novel in five years, Just Like You, will be published by Viking. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-27 01:29:37 UTC ]