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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Writer and translator Emily Ruth Ford has become the first person to win the £1,000 V S Pritchett Short Story Prize twice. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kapka Kassabova's "extraordinary" book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta) has won the British Academy’s £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fiona Mozley, author of Man Booker shortlisted debut Elmet (John Murray), has been announced as one of the judges of the 2019 £5,000 Northern Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This year’s shortlist also includes Jesus on Gardening, Equine Dry Needling and Why Sell Tacos in Africa?A book that celebrates Germany’s timesaving contribution to global cuisine is among the contenders for the 2018 Diagram prize for the oddest title of the year. The Joy of Waterboiling may... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Waterstones bookseller is shortlisted for the V S Pritchett Short Story Prize, along with Early One Morning author Virginia Baily and short story writer Michelle Wright. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) is partnering with New Writing North (NWN) on a new prize for debut children’s writers who live and work in the North of England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new literature award, the JCB Prize goes to the work of a Kerala author who writes about issues and personalities in the Middle East. His newest book is from Juggernaut. The post Author Benyamin’s ‘Jasmine Days’ Wins Inaugural JCB Prize for Literature in India appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An academic treatise on dung, a how-to guide of acupuncture for horses and the first-ever German language entry are among the six books in the running for the 40th edition of The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Orwell Foundation will next month launch a prize to celebrate novels or short stories that illuminate social and political themes through the art of narrative. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist and short story writer Benyamin has won the inaugural JCB prize for Literature in India. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer, broadcaster and antiques expert Jeremy Cooper has won the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, worth £3,000, for his novel Ash Before Oak. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anna Burns’s novel sold almost 10,000 copies in the first days after the prize, and Faber has printed 120,000 additional copies to meet demandDespite being described by the chair of the Man Booker prize judges as “challenging”, Anna Burns’s story of sexual intimidation during the Troubles,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fiona Mozley has won the Polari First Book Prize 2018 for her Man Booker-shortlisted debut, Elmet (John Murray). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zanib Mian, who won the Little Rebels Award in 2018 with her book The Muslims, has signed a three-book deal with Hachette Children’s Group (HCG). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut collections by poets Zaffar Kunial, Fiona Moore, Phoebe Power, RIchard Scott and Hannah Sullivan all feature on the shortlist for this year's T S Eliot Prize (£25,000). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anna Burns has become the first Northern Irish writer to win the Man Booker Prize with her novel Milkman (Faber & Faber), a book about the sexual harassment of a young woman, commended by the judges for its “distinctive voice” and for being at once “particular and brilliantly universal”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 17th woman to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Anna Burns has won for 'Milkman,' set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Her publisher, Faber & Faber, becomes the second biggest winner of Man Booker titles. The post Northern Ireland’s Anna Burns Wins 2018 Man Booker Prize for... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Democracy thrives not on disputes, but rather on good arguments,' say author-scholars Jan and Eleida Assmann in their acceptance speech in Frankfurt for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The post Aleida and Jan Assmann Given German Book Trade Peace Prize in Frankfurt appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Milkman,' which is published by Graywolf Press in the U.S., makes Burns the first Northern Irish writer to win the prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The British Indian writer and literary director of the JCB Prize for Literature explains how a prize backed by a construction giant is enhancing the prestige and commercial success of contemporary Indian literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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