, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died on Friday at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He was 87.
A novel by Mr. Saramago, "The Elephant's Journey," is to be published posthumously in English on Sept. 8 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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On my night table at the moment sit a small stack of collected poetry works, a very boring novel I haven't been able to finish, and a lovely little book by Kurt Vonnegut. Of the poetry, I have most enjoyed dipping into Pier Giorgio Di Cicco's Living In Paradise and Robin Skelton's Selected Poems. Each of these collections covers a significant portion of the author's writing life, affording me a chance to understand the development of each author's interest and character.
Categories: Reviews, Poetry, Discussions, Authors
I recently published my first book - Hump (Palimpsest Press, 2010) - so I'm firmly in rest-and-recover mode, re-visiting beloved books and authors before getting back to work on my (sadly languishing) manuscript of poems on American inventor Thomas Alva Edison.
As such, I thought I'd share some of the plums of this particular crop of reading...
Categories: Reviews, Poetry, Discussions, Authors, SciFi & Fantasy
After pounding out numerous manuscripts over several years, I finally had one of my many stories published in an anthology, Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, and joined several other Canadian authors at the launch at the World Horror Convention in Brighton UK in March of this year. In my spare time I have been involved with a writer's workshop, a national book contest, and a few genre book reviews. I have managed to do some reading though.
Categories: Reviews, Discussions, Authors, Horror
Dora Dueck is the author of the novel Under the Still Standing Sun and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada. Join us at McNally Robinson Grant Park on Wednesday May 19, 2010 at 8:00 pm to celebrate the launch of her new book This Hidden Thing.
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On my night table are two books of historical fiction. Denise Giardina's Emily's Ghost (W.W. Norton, 2009) is a novel of the Bronte sisters, especially the brilliant and unconventional Emily. Giardina postulates a love story involving her and the curate William Weightman, champion of mill workers and labour rights. What this book has done is send me back to Wuthering Heights, which I first read in my youth and whose power I remember but whose details I've forgotten.
Categories: Reviews, buzz, Authors
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