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Lunatics, Lovers and Poets

Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare

April 22, 2016 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781908276780
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Description

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
are of imagination all compact."

- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay Festival have selected twelve contemporary international authors to each write an original and previously unpublished story as their tribute to these giants of world literature.

In order to celebrate the international influence of both writers and offer us new and intriguing perspectives on them, six English-speaking authors have taken inspiration from Cervantes and his work, while six Spanish-language authors have written stories inspired by Shakespeare.

The authors are Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Yuri Herrera, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Vicente Molina Foix, Soledad Puértolas, Hisham Matar, Nell Leyshon, Rhidian Brook and Valeria Luiselli. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the liberating legacy of Cervantes and Shakespeare for contemporary fiction.

About this Author

Daniel Hahn is an award-winning writer, editor and translator, with forty-something books to his name. Recent titles include the new Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and a translation of A General Theory of Oblivion (by Angolan novelist José Eduardo Agualusa). He is on the board of a number of organisations that work with literature, reading and free speech, and is currently chair of the Society of Authors.

Margarita Valencia (Bogotá, 1958) has devoted most of her professional life to books, as editor, teacher, literary critic, translator. Her publishing projects have included the Bogotá publishing house Carlos Valencia Editores, literary collections edited for Grupo Editorial Norma, and Libro al viento, a publishing project aimed at closing the gap between the reader and the book. She has been a staff writer for several magazines (El Malpensante, Cambio, Arcadia, Guión), and the newspaper La Prensa, and her texts have been published in various anthologies. She conceived and directs the program in Book Studies in the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and co-directs Los libros, a program that airs on National Public Radio.

Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the "Booker of Bookers", the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.



ISBN: 9781908276780
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 2016-04-22

Reviews

"A splendid homage to two visionaries."
--Boyd Tonkin

"Some of the brightest lights in contemporary fiction celebrate the timelessness of Shakespeare and Cervantes . . . these stories [are] fresh and exciting. Much of this comes from the diversity of writer backgrounds on show, and their style and traditions add a wealth of interpretation and perspective."
--Graeme Smith, Herald Scotland

"These stories range far and wide . . . a notable collection, with a welcome international focus."
--Publishers Weekly

"These amazing new stories are not only a tribute to Cervantes and Shakespeare from some of the best contemporary authors writing in English and Spanish, they are also a tribute to the power of translation."
--Cristina Fuentes La Roche, Director, Hay Festival Americas

"A splendid homage to two visionaries."
--Boyd Tonkin

"Some of the brightest lights in contemporary fiction celebrate the timelessness of Shakespeare and Cervantes . . . these stories [are] fresh and exciting. Much of this comes from the diversity of writer backgrounds on show, and their style and traditions add a wealth of interpretation and perspective."
--Graeme Smith, Herald Scotland

"These stories range far and wide . . . a notable collection, with a welcome international focus."
--Publishers Weekly

"These amazing new stories are not only a tribute to Cervantes and Shakespeare from some of the best contemporary authors writing in English and Spanish, they are also a tribute to the power of translation."
--Cristina Fuentes La Roche, Director, Hay Festival Americas

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