It probably won't become the bestselling Goncourt-winner of all times - with 1,600,000 copies sold Marguerite Duras' The Lover still has that locked up - but it's easily the number twoĮnglish-language editions are due soon - from Other Press in the US in November and from Michael Joseph in the UK in January, 2022 - and I'm curious what their expectations for this now are. Hervé Le Tellier's L'anomalie, last year's winner of the biggest French literary prize, the prix Goncourt keeps selling: Gallimard have announced they've now printed a million copies of the book - an almost unheard of amount for a title in France: as the Livres Hebdo report notes, that's a: "barre symbolique (et rare)".Ī tirage of a million copies doesn't mean a million copies sold - yet - but it looks to be well on its way. Reports should start appearing Tuesday or Wednesday. In 1970 the prize went to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn it'll be interesting to see who he beat out. (Make an appointment if you want to be among the first to get a peek !)
#CONVERSATIONS WITH TYLER JHUMPA LAHIRI ARCHIVE#
Usually they open the archive right at the start of the year - 1 January, basically - but due to Covid-concerns they delayed that this year - until now: the Swedish Academy has announced that access to the 1970 archive will be possible starting Monday, 10 May. Given the list of previous winners, certainly a prize to pay attention to.Īll Nobel Prize in Literature nominees and deliberations are kept sealed for fifty years, and only then do they open the archives and publicly reveal what went down. They've announced the winner of this year's Alfred Döblin Prize, a biennial literary prize for an unpublished work that was established by Günter Grass, and it is Deniz Utlu see, for example, the Deutschlandfunk report. It was good to see his The Tale of the Missing Man appear in English. Seelye) see also A tribute to Manzoor Ahtesham: A man buried in his books by Askari Zaidi in The Hindu. Hindi-writing author Manzoor Ahtesham has passed away - and it's nice to see that The New York Times has an obituary (by Katharine Q. The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Saudi Arabian author Aziz Mohammed's The Critical Case of a Man Called K, just out in English from Hoopoe. The Critical Case of a Man Called K review (Posted by: M.A.Orthofer) - permanent link. well, everyone else seems to have, the recent Blake Bailey-Philip Roth biography has turned out to be a particularly interesting example, the issues surrounding the biographer - a real piece of work - swamping the actual biography the book about this whole fiasco will surely certainly be much more interesting than Bailey's own book (which I had, and continue to have, no plans to read as with so many authors: Roth's work is of interest to me Roth's life isn't.)Īt Honi Soit Genevieve Couvret now looks at (some) author-biographies, wondering: "Can we ever really know our favourite authors ?" in The Eulogy of The Novelist: What comes after the death of the author, addressing some of the issues surrounding this odd genre. (While I haven't written about it, because. While I cover a fair number of biographies at the complete review, I'm not a big fan of the form: I am, however, quite fascinated by the general fascination with biographies, especially writers' lives. Manzoor Ahtesham (1948-2021) | Alfred-Döblin-PreisĪuthor biographies | The Critical Case of a Man Called K review Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel longlist | Dutch translation grants | Nives reviewġ970 Nobel archive to be opened | Prix Goncourt-winner sales success Neustadt International Prize for Literature jurors announced | James Tait Black Prizes shortlists | Encore Award shortlist Spring Goncourt prizes | GG's finalists | Nocturne of Remembrance review
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