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Dublin Literary Award longlist: four Irish in running but Demon Copperhead leads field
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction, has emerged as the early favourite for this year’s €100,000 Dublin Literary Award after the novel received four nominations from libraries worldwide. Inspired by the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, it is similarly about a…
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Annie Liontas on “Sex With a Brain Injury”
The new memoir in essays Sex With a Brain Injury from Annie Liontas, author of the novel Let Me Explain You, is a highly formally and thematically risky work of nonfiction exploring traumatic brain injury (TBI), queerness, addiction, mass incarceration, and chronic illness. Weaving “history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate and expand representations of…
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Over 50 Latvian author books published abroad last year
Over the last year, 54 Latvian authors’ works were published in 19 countries. Eight translations of Latvian literary works came out in Lithuanian, while six works were translated in Estonian and Spanish. Of the books released last year, 17 are works by the genre of poetry, 19 are children’s literature and 15 are prose, as well…
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Humans Are the Most Alien Creatures
Humans Are the Most Alien Creatures Marie-Helene Bertino Author of the novel Parakeet (FSG, June 2020) Share article An excerpt from Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In the beginning there is Adina and her Earth mother. Adina (in utero), listening to the advancing yeses of her mother’s heart and her mother in the labor room, vitals plunging.…
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15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Winter
Solstice has come and gone, but in addition to the returning of the light, we can also herald another excellent small press publishing season. What I love about these titles is the richness of imagination and inquiry, leading to inventive plots in fiction and deep emotional honesty in non-fiction. There is such a striking contrast…
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All male book club bringing literature to the pub
By Emma Xerri A book club may not seem like the obvious choice for men looking for a new social activity to add to their roster, but for the men of the Tough Guy Book Club, discussing books with a cold beer in hand has become a cherished part of their monthly schedule. The book…
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Cairo International Book Fair gateway for Norwegian literature: Norway ambassador – News
Klemetsdal emphasized that the fair, one of the biggest in the world, is an exciting opportunity to introduce her country’s literature, art, and culture to an Arab audience. During the press conference, the ambassador announced that Crown Princess Mette-Marit would inaugurate the Norwegian programme at the fair. Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide…
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Historical novels and manga a huge hit at Chennai Book Fair
As the Pongal holidays began in the city, the 47th edition of the Chennai Book Fair saw many people visiting it for its collection of historical books and manga. According to publishers at the book fair, customers have been interested in buying historical and self-improvement books, which was the trend last year as well. At…
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Sigrid Nunez: ‘I’ve had students say that white men shouldn’t write novels at all’
In the mid-1970s, having recently graduated from Columbia University, Sigrid Nunez was hired as an editorial assistant by The New York Review of Books. There, she would work alongside the influential, indomitable and impossibly glamorous literary critic Susan Sontag. “I was so young, I hadn’t published anything at all,” Nunez tells me. “And all I…
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Singapore Illakiam stalls at book fair attract literature lovers
CHENNAI: Tamil culture and literature have travelled across countries all over the world and reached a larger audience. At the ongoing Chennai Book Fair, stalls (534 and 535) titled ‘Singapore Illakiam’ have many stories to tell about the Singaporean Tamils and the writers. “The books sold in the stalls are authored by Singapore Tamils. Books…