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IMPAC goes to Norway

Norwegian author Per Petterson has won this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest book prizes. Petterson won the €100,000 prize for his novel Out Stealing Horses; the book's translator, Anne Born, ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Professors Rushdie and Amis

By Leigh Anne Williams

Nearly everyone has a bad Valentine's Day story – and there are undoubtedly a few more out there after yesterday – but few can top Salman Rushdie's. The Ayatollah Khomeini's murderous fatwa against the author ... Read More »

February 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The problem with Blitcons

By Nathan Whitlock

Although the famous have come to his defence in the question of plagiarism or fair borrowing as historical research, will anyone defend Ian McEwan from Ziauddin Sardar's charge in New Statesman that he, Martin Amis, ... Read More »

December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

In memory of Mahfouz

By Leigh Anne Williams

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, a Nobel laureate whose books include Palace Walk, among many others, has died at the age of 94. Probably the best one-stop resource for information and reaction is at the litblog ... Read More »

August 31, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Update: Brick Lane fracas rages on

By Cassandra Drudi

Quillblog linked last month to the Guardian's coverage of the Brick Lane brouhaha, which consisted of east London borough Tower Hamlets residents putting up a stink about the production of a film based on Monica ... Read More »

August 2, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Rock & read, part 2: the rock novel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following up on yesterday's post about the fondness of metal bands for epic or romantic poetry, In Other Media would like to point interested readers to an exhaustive list of 50-plus rock & roll novels ... Read More »

April 6, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

By Leigh Anne Williams

New York Times publishing reporter Edward Wyatt has used some BookScan data to identify over- and underachievers among the 2005 crop of American book releases. Doing well is Joan Didion, whose The Year of Magical ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Reading in the native language

By Scott MacDonald

A story in The Guardian discusses both spoken and written language in India. Despite its approximately one billion people and nearly 800 spoken languages and dialects, India, like other former English colonies, is a linguistically ... Read More »

November 16, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Rumours fly as announcement of Nobel Prize for Literature is delayed

By Scott MacDonald

The clock continues to tick for the Nobel Academy, the body responsible for the nomination of Nobel Prize winners. For the first time in over 10 years, the Nobel Prize for Literature "was announced neither ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Booker shortlist announced

By Scott MacDonald

In a year that saw landmark books written by the big names of British fiction -- Rushdie, Barnes, Coetzee, McEwan, and Ali and Zadie Smith to name a few -- the big question preceding this ... Read More »

September 9, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

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Search Results by tag: Salman Rushdie

IMPAC goes to Norway

Professors Rushdie and Amis

The problem with Blitcons

In memory of Mahfouz

Update: Brick Lane fracas rages on

Rock & read, part 2: the rock novel

Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

Reading in the native language

Rumours fly as announcement of Nobel Prize for Literature is delayed

Booker shortlist announced

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