Lawrence Ferlinghetti Declines 50,000 Euro Prize from Hungarian PEN Club
Just received this email from New Directions, and rather than summarize and all that, I’m just going to let it stand alone. (Ironic that this comes out on the day of the Nobel Prize announcement . . . ). So here’s a letter from ND publisher Barbara Epler: October 11, 2012 Late last week, we learned that famed ...
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Man Booker Shortlist
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize was announced earlier today. Looks like a decent enough list, although I’m pretty surprised that the David Mitchell book didn’t make it . . . Anyway, here’s the full list, and I’m sure over the next few days there will be tons of articles and posts ...
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2010 Arabic Booker Shortlist
Ed Nawotka’s piece in Publishing Perspectives is the first mention I’ve seen of this, but on Tuesday, the six finalists for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (aka, the “Arabic Booker”) were announced. Each finalist received $10,000 and the winner gets an additional $50,000. Here is the ...
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Shortlist for the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa
The shortlist for the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa was recently announced and is made up of the following books: Bom dia camaradas, Ondjaki (Agir) Cantigas do falso Alfonso el Sábio, Affonso Ávila (Ateliê Editorial) História natural da ditadura, Teixeira Coelho ...
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