To those familiar with Olga Tokarczuk’s work, it was not so much a matter of whether she would win the Nobel Prize, but when. For many years she has been Poland’s leading contemporary novelist, and her nine novels and three short-story collections have been translated worldwide. The English-speaking world was late to the party; despite the publication of House of Day, House of Night (inspired by the remote borderlands of Poland and the Czech Republic where Tokarczuk lives) in 2002, and of Primeval and Other Times (the mythical story of a village at the centre of Europe) in 2010, it took until 2018 for a major breakthrough to come, when Flights (loosely about life on the move, to faraway places and deep inside ourselves, translated by Jennifer Croft) won the Man Booker International award. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (a crime novel about an unlikely eco-warrior) quickly followed, and now, with the Nobel Prize, Tokarczuk’s rightful status as a world-class writer is confirmed. In 2021 Croft’s translation of the historical epic, The Books of Jacob, will be published.Tokarczuk is a versatile and thought-provoking author. As a psychologist by training, she is curious about people and particularly good at exploring the human mind; while telling us entertaining stories, she also confronts us with philosophical questions and prompts us to look at life from unusual angles. Her writing has a metaphysical quality, and a gently unsettling way of taking us beyond time... Continue reading at 'British Council global'
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FOLIO:s Eddie and Ozzie awards competition is the largest of its kind for magazine publishers. It also has the proud distinction of being the only awards event open to magazines and websites of all kindsconsumer, b-to-b, association, custom and regional, big and small. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Catherine Hall has beaten authors including Coim Tóibín and Jackie Kay to this year... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Poet Alice Oswald has withdrawn her book Memorial (Faber) from the T S Eliot prize because of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Poet Alice Oswald has withdrawn her book Memorial (Faber) from the T S Eliot prize because of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Sales of the 2011 Galaxy Book Award category winners have soared by 50% since the awards night on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ronald Rengs biography of Robert Enke, the German national goalkeeper who took his own... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:05 Faber has acquired a title by debut author Eugen Ruge, winner of this year's German Book Prize. Editor Sarah Savitt bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the title, In Times of Fading Light, from Katie Dublinski at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:40 Debut novelist Alice LaPLante has won the third Wellcome Trust Book Prize for her tale of a "brilliant mind in terminal decline". Turn of Mind (Harvill Secker) beat Philip Roth's Nemesis as well as titles by Sarah Manguso, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ann... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:50 Belfast-born author Lucy Caldwell has won the £30,000 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, beating Orange Prize-winner Téa Obreht. Caldwell's novel The Meeting Point (Faber) won over Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, as well as titles from Annabel Pitcher,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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As budget media tablets race to the bottom on price, ebook readers are the real winners receiving deep price cuts and improved features. Continue reading at PC World
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Publication Date: Tue, 08/11/2011 - 13:40 A book about feline pirates has claimed the bounty of an award at this years Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Cats Ahoy! by Peter Bently and illustrated by Jim Field (Macmillan Childrens Books) was awarded the prize for children aged six and under at todays... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Mon, 31/10/2011 - 11:46 Titles by Haruki Murakami and Amitav Ghosh have been longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize among 12 novels from countries spanning Japan, Iran, China and Bangladesh. Murakamis 1Q84 makes the list alongside Ghoshs River... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 08:30 Waterstone's is set to publish a print and ebook anthology to celebrate the shortlist for the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. The high street bookseller will publish the titles on 4th March next year, and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 14:49 The Literature Prize is to be awarded in the spring of each year, with founder Andrew Kidd saying it will take place for the first time in 2012 if the necessary funding is secured by the end of this year. Kidd said the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 08:45 Academic Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his "fascinating" biography of 17th-century scientist Robert Boyle. Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale) was awarded the £2,000 prize and a specially commissioned medal at a special dinner... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 25/10/2011 - 08:30 The six shortlisted books competing to win 2012s $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature have been unveiled. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 20/10/2011 - 11:19 The Poetry Book Society has obtained three-year sponsorship for the prestigious T S Eliot Prize from private investment management firm Aurum Funds. There had been concern for the prize, which goes to new collections of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 19/10/2011 - 16:37 The Commonwealth Writers prizes have relaunched today (19th October) with a new community website aimed at connecting and inspiring new authors. The new site is a free-to-join forum for aspiring writers to get advice from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 19/10/2011 - 14:45 Sarah Winmans debut When God Was a Rabbit (Headline Review) has won the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festivals Newton First Book Award. The award encourages attendees of the festival to vote for their favourite of the 47... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Benedicte Page, Graeme Neill and Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 13/10/2011 - 08:53 Ion Trewin, administrator of the Man Booker Prize, has hit back at the new Literature Prize over claims by its advisory board that the Man Booker no longer offers a selection of novels... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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