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 ]
The Center for Fiction named its 2019 First Novel Prize shortlist this morning. The post Center for Fiction Names 2019 First Novel Prize Shortlist appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-09-26 17:53:27 UTC ]
Lit Hub is excited to announce the shortlist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. This year’s judging panel included Tommy Orange, Emma Straub, Monique Truong, Maaza Mengiste, and Claire Messud. They are: De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing Julia... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-26 13:59:29 UTC ]
Today, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell announced his next project: Utopia Avenue, which will be first full-length novel since 2014’s The Bone Clocks. (I suppose he has some time now that he’s done writing The Matrix 4.) Mitchell said in his announcement that the idea for the book came in part... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-26 12:40:53 UTC ]
Due out next summer, the novel will explore the power of music, following the career of the eponymous psychedelic bandCloud Atlas author David Mitchell is to tackle the story of “the strangest British band you’ve never heard of” in his first novel for five years, Utopia Avenue.Announcing the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-09-26 10:42:58 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has landed the first novel in a historical crime fiction series from D V Bishop. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-20 00:24:27 UTC ]
Interviews Carolyne Larrington Audible’s new fiction podcast, Hag, launching August 29, features eight reimaginings of traditional British folktales by eight contemporary female writers, with folktales chosen from across the UK. The collection will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-08-30 14:21:50 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction announced its 2019 First Novel Prize Longlist yesterday. The award is given to the “best debut novel published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of the award year,” and the prize-winning author receives $10,000. Here is the 2019 longlist (featuring many titles from our 2019 Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-07-25 17:22:45 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction just announced the longlist for this year’s best debut novel. The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner will be announced in December at The Center for Fiction’s Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner at its new, spacious, happening location in Brooklyn.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 16:41:15 UTC ]
A drowning haunts Susan Steinberg’s dark first novel about teenagers’ summer adventures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2019-07-23 10:00:00 UTC ]