Did you know that Sylvia Plath wrote a rhyming children’s book about silly beds?

Sylvia Plath was born 89 years ago today. A published writer from age at, she left behind a vast catalogue of poetry and prose, especially given her short life. One of her most charming works was a rhyming children’s book written in 1959 (before either of her children were born) and published in 1976, after […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-10-27 17:44:35 UTC ]

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The Festival Five with NSK Juror Tanita S. Davis, by The Editors of WLT

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[ World Literature Today | 2020-09-01 14:10:14 UTC ]
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Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Translator Michele Hutchison, Win International Booker Prize

A book written in a child's voice wins the 2020 International Booker Prize, its author from a devoutly religious Dutch farming family. The post Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Translator Michele Hutchison, Win International Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-26 16:17:28 UTC ]
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The Discomfort of Evening has won the International Booker Prize.

The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. It comes with a whopping £50,000—shared equally between the author and translator. This year, the judges read 124 books in 30 languages. In a... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Happy pub day to the first mainstream children’s book featuring a Sikh character.

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[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-25 16:06:55 UTC ]
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Sam Thompson goes to Little Island for children's debut

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[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 12:43:48 UTC ]
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The Democratic and Republican conventions are not the same. Don’t pretend that they are.

In June—with Roy Cooper, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, refusing, due to the pandemic, to accede to President Trump’s demands for a business-as-usual Republican convention in Charlotte—Trump pulled the plug, and said he would instead accept his party’s nomination on the friendlier... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review

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[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-13 14:41:38 UTC ]
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[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-22 16:30:17 UTC ]
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Column: Horror clouds every page of Mary Trump's book about her Uncle Donald

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