War Dances (Grove Press) has been selected as the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. Three judges, chosen annually by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country. The winning writer and four finalists are honored at a ceremony held in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library in May.
To HBO, at least. Fans of A Song of Ice and Fire who are eagerly awaiting the fifth book in popular fantasy series, will have to continue to wait for A Dance with Dragons.
Martin announced the news recently, that HBO has greenlighted A Game of Thrones for a full ten episode first season, due to air next spring. The plan is to adapt one book in the series per season. The cast includes Lord of the Rings alumni, Sean Bean in the role of Eddard (Ned) Stark, Lord of Winterfell and the King's new Hand.
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I've been reading funny books, it seems, and books with a satiric edge. Oh, just looking for laughs to get me through the winter. And these are all Canadian writers!
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This week saw the release of a report from the OECD, Pathways to Success:
How knowledge and skills at Age 15 shape future lives in Canada.
Its most revealing observation is that there is no greater predictor of a
child's future educational success than reading proficiency.
The Globe and Mail emphasizes that these results confirm the necessity of a
basic education focused on foundational skills. They also bolster the
egalitarian credentials of Canada's education system where learned traits
such as reading overwhelm inherited factors such as parental income.
So, all things being equal, read, read, read.
As a psychiatrist and author, I sometimes wonder if I am better at buying books than actually finding the time to sit down and read them through to the end. When I do complete a book, I know it was clearly written and actually offered me a chance to change my perspective on the world, if not my life.
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