Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widelyIn addition to the excellent advice provided in your article on reading (The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books, 25 April), I would add the following. The old adage of not judging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-28 16:39:44 UTC ]
Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books – and the gamble has paid offA quiet revolution is afoot in British publishing.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-16 08:00:02 UTC ]
"The Books of Jacob" is an incredible epic by recent Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-02-01 13:00:00 UTC ]
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/12/olga-tokarczuks-the-books-of-jacob-an-epic-that-sinks-under-the-weight-of-factsThis week in fiction, The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (Fitzcarraldo) continued to be covered in the newspapers, picking up mentions in the Telegraph and New... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-13 02:10:37 UTC ]
The Books of Jacob, praised by the Nobel prize judges and winner of Poland’s prestigious Nike award, will be published in the UK in NovemberThe magnum opus of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk – a novel that has taken seven years to translate and has brought its author death threats in her native... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-26 15:00:18 UTC ]
Many have highlighted the potential benefits of reading translated literature, and with novels like Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, it seems that translated works are performing better than ever. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 00:35:04 UTC ]
Ah, February 2021: maybe by then, we’ll have forgotten that 2020 ever existed. An upcoming book by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Joanna Concejo, promises to help us cleanse the timeline: The Lost Soul, a story for both children and adults. Publisher Seven... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 18:31:35 UTC ]
Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke have won the Nobel Prizes in Literature 2018 and 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-09 20:13:53 UTC ]
News and Events The Editors of WLT Today the New Yorker announced the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. With such a wealth of talent on display, we don’t envy the judges’ task. To aid you, the reader, in appreciating the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-09-17 16:53:18 UTC ]
The Polish author, known for her fragmentary, far-ranging novels, tightens her focus with the mystical detective novel "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-06 04:00:00 UTC ]