Antonio Ungar Wins 2010 Herralde Novel Prize
Just received an e-mail announcement from the Spanish publisher Anagrama, that Colombian writer Antonio Ungar has won this year’s Herralde Novel Prize for Tres ataudes blancos (Three White Coffins). The Herralde Prize was launched in 1983 with the goal of promoting new works of Spanish literature. Over the years, a ...
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Interview with Gunter Grass on "The Box"
Maya Jaggi from The Guardian has a really interesting long piece on Gunter Grass’s The Box, which comes out next week (both in the UK and U.S.). (And which sounds fantastic . . . Hopefully HMH will send a copy to us for review . . .): The second volume of his fictive autobiography, The Box, is published by Harvill ...
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Michel Houellebecq's "The Map and the Territory"
The new Houellebecq novel won’t be available in English for another year, but in the meantime, ArtInfo has seven “things to know” about the new book. As with Houellebecq’s other novels, it sounds pretty interesting . . . Here are a couple of AI’s 7 points: HOUELLEBECQ IS A CHARACTER IN THE ...
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Six Words: More. Reviews. Of. Open. Letter. Books.
NPR is going all nationalist and public and polling their listeners on what they’d like to hear in terms of book reviews and book coverage: What makes a book review worth reading? What type of books should NPR cover more? What do we write about too much? Who are you people, and what do you want? As editors ...
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Unedited Foreword to Granta's "Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists" Issue (Part III)
Here’s the final part of the unedited version of Aurelio Major and Valerie Miles’s introduction to the special issue of Granta dedicated to “Young Spanish Novelists.” Part I is available here, Part II, here, and you can download a Word doc of the entire piece by clicking here. Enjoy! If a good ...
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Unedited Foreword to Granta's "Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists" Issue (Part II)
Here’s the second part of the unedited version of Aurelio Major and Valerie Miles’s introduction to the special issue of Granta dedicated to “Young Spanish Novelists.” Part I is available here and you can download a Word doc of the entire piece by clicking here. Enjoy! To select the young writers ...
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Unedited Foreword to Granta's "Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists" Issue (Part I)
This is really cool . . . Over the weekend, Aurelio Major sent me a copy of the foreword that he and Valerie Miles wrote for the special “Young Spanish Novelists” issue of Granta that’s coming out in a couple weeks. According to Aurelio, this foreword—which appears in full in the Spanish language ...
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