After previous seminars showcased work from Scotland and Wales, this year the focus is on writing from Northern Ireland. Chaired by novelist and non-fiction writer Glenn Patterson, director at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast – a familiar and popular name for British... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 12:14:57 UTC ]
'Moon Witch, Spider King,' the second in Marlon James' incantatory Dark Star trilogy, flips the script on his first novel to tell a woman's side. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-15 14:00:10 UTC ]
Brendan Slocumb is clear about the lived experience behind The Violin Conspiracy, a propulsive first novel about the theft of a Stradivarius valued at $10 million on the eve of the international Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. The book is based in part on his own experiences as a concert... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-09 09:49:43 UTC ]
The memoirist Sarah Manguso’s first novel is about a young girl’s life in a small, snowy New England town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-02-06 10:00:06 UTC ]
At the risk of reigniting the Sally Rooney Discourse—today, Hulu and BBC Three released a few early images from their upcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling first novel Conversations With Friends, which will premiere sometime this spring. (If you somehow don’t know what this novel is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-04 13:53:52 UTC ]
On January 14, 1963, poet Sylvia Plath published her first novel in England under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas.” The book had a positive but relatively quiet reception; only a few weeks after its publication, on February 11, Plath would die by suicide. It wasn’t published in the US until 1971,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-14 09:50:32 UTC ]
Two decades ago, I wrote my very first novel while working at The Community Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. That job enabled me to complete my book, not just because of the flexible hours, but because the other staffers were all aspiring writers, and many of our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-12 09:50:45 UTC ]
Book Reviews Jean Giono at his home, Le Paraïs, in Manosque, France, 1942 / Photo by André Zucca / Courtesy Les Amis de Jean Giono Written late in life, “Le Haut Pays” and “Camargue”—once again paired in the Archipelago Books edition of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-01-11 21:02:53 UTC ]
"To Paradise," by Hanya Yanagihara, is the author's first novel since "A Little Life" became a major literary event in 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-11 13:00:00 UTC ]
A recent roundup of the ‘best books of 2021’ had every possible genre of novel – with the unsurprising exception of romanceIn the four months since my first novel came out, I’ve had the same conversation probably a dozen times.“What’s it about?” a well-meaning stranger will ask. “Well,” I’ll... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-05 15:25:24 UTC ]
Academic Alex Hyde‘s first novel is a lyrical tale about two women named Violet during the Second World War. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 18:23:13 UTC ]
The Nigerian writer explains the origins of his latest book’s title, why novels are harder to write than plays, and the masochistic pull of political activism. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-11-02 22:37:29 UTC ]
News and Events (c) Rama, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr NORMAN, OKLA. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday evening that Boubacar Boris Diop is the 27th... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-10-26 21:56:54 UTC ]
This classic story of a single mother’s struggle against poverty, published in 1946, would become the first novel by a Black woman to sell a million copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-22 04:28:52 UTC ]
The Chilean novelist was living in exile when her first novel was published in 1985. “In a way, I feel that I am working for my country, even if I don’t live there,” she told us. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-21 15:31:43 UTC ]
This tale of Gilded Age New York City became, in 1921, the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-21 14:55:14 UTC ]
Sequoia Nagamatsu’s bold first novel imagines how future humans might grapple with the fallout from climate change Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-15 04:56:32 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction has just announced its shortlist for the 2021 First Novel Prize. The seven titles were selected from a longlist of twenty-seven debut novels, all published in the US between January 1 to December 21. The prize, first established in 2006, celebrates the best debut fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 17:25:35 UTC ]
Doerr’s first novel since winning a Pulitzer Prize for “All the Light We Cannot See” is full of people thinking big thoughts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
“Cloud Cuckoo Land,” Doerr’s first novel since “All the Light We Cannot See,” unites five characters over a millennium in a tribute to books and those who love them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-09-24 09:00:04 UTC ]