Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-04-14 02:33:00 UTC ]
Canadian author Alice Munro, a master of the short story and the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario, on May 13. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
The French writer, who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, blurs the line between fiction and memoir with spare prose she has characterized as “brutally direct.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-06 16:13:27 UTC ]
As some of you may already know (and sure, some of you may not care) Bob Dylan is publishing a book this November about his “philosophy of modern song” called… The Philosophy of Modern Song. If you are among those who do care (like me) the table of contents of the Nobel laureate’s foray into […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-26 15:37:43 UTC ]
Miguel Angel Asturias’s ‘Mr. President,’ first published in 1946, is a reminder of the current situation in Guatemala that has driven so people to attempt risky illegal entry into the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-07-14 12:00:48 UTC ]
A Nobel laureate and a future publisher play major roles in Margarita Engle’s “Singing With Elephants” and Michael Morpurgo’s “The Puffin Keeper.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-03 04:06:53 UTC ]
The Nobel laureate’s best work has studied the hazards of power. Does his latest book extend the streak? Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-11-24 17:40:49 UTC ]
Forty years ago, IBM researcher Charlie Bennett helped usher in the study of quantum mechanics’ impact on computing. IBM is still at it—and so is Bennett. In May 1981, at a conference center housed in a chateau-style mansion outside Boston, a few dozen physicists and computer scientists gathered... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2021-05-07 08:00:30 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to publish Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate's first novel in 48 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 16:14:16 UTC ]
On Wednesday, the sky over the Bay Area turned orange. The visual was alien, yet the cause—rampant wildfires, accelerated by climate change—was very much a this-world problem. “Some folks said it felt like living on the next planet over, the red one,” Steve Rubenstein and Michael Cabanatuan... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-09-11 12:16:42 UTC ]
Oprah’s Flatiron imprint nabs a nonfiction title by a Nobel laureate, Holt buys a debut novel by a PRH UK editor, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Nobel laureate’s novels sit uncooperatively in a zone between allegory and parable, refuting interpretation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-30 13:00:00 UTC ]
In the publishing world, it seems like winning the Nobel Prize just isn’t what it used to be. A Deutsche Welle interview with Lucien Leitess, director of the Swiss publishing house Unionsverlag, explored the business of predicting a Nobel laureate’s commercial success. The controversy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-11 19:54:24 UTC ]
The Nobel laureate, who died on Monday, blasted many a myth, with eloquence and grace. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-08-06 18:28:08 UTC ]
Toni Morrison, giant of American literature and the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has passed away. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-08-06 14:08:13 UTC ]
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and author of Beloved, has died at the age of 88, her publisher Knopf has confirmed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-06 11:43:53 UTC ]
The Trinidadian-born author of Indian ancestry lived his adult life in England, writing the powerful but polarizing books on migration and empire that won him the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
An anthology of later work by the Nobel laureate will feature a last poem, In Time, written for his granddaughter SíofraSeamus Heaney obituary by Neil CorcoranA poem written for his granddaughter and never published before in the UK will form part of a new collection of selected poems by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobel laureate was told by publisher that 'people will shudder and be puzzled and confused' by reading Echo's BonesA previously unpublished story by Samuel Beckett will go on sale in bookshops for the first time, 80 years after his publisher rejected it as a nightmare read that gave him "the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]