Books for your Mother
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 12:53pmThe Book Babes have posted a list of ten books that you can give on mother's day without being all chicken-soup for the soul about it. List is after the jump.
Alice Munro Longlisted for World's Richest Short Story Collection Prize
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 12:33pm
The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, a €35,000 prize, is open to any book published in English for the first time between October 2006 and September 2007. In addition to Munro, Canadian J.M. Villaverde also made the long list.
The full list of 34 names include 9 American, 6 Irish, 6 British, 5 Australian, 2 Canadian authors. New Zealand, Bulgaria, Iceland, Montserrat, Isreal and Kenya each have one author nomination.
American author Rick Moody, Kenyan author Segun Afolabi and Irish author Nuala Ní Chonchúir are the jurors for this year's prize. They will announce the short list in mid-July and announce the winner at the close of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival which takes place in Cork, Ireland in September.
See the full list after the jump. Categories: AwardsBlue Metropolis Festival Awards New Lit Prize
Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 4:09pmThe world's first multilingual literary festival, Blue Metropolis has announced a new literary prize. Given out at the annual festival in Montreal, the inaugural winner of the Canadian literary prize for Arab writers is Elias Khoury. The prize recognizes "a lifetime of substantial literary achievement by an Arab writer working in any genre (poetry, fiction, etc.) in Arabic or another language. The winner will be chosen by a jury appointed by Blue Metropolis Foundation and chaired by the Artistic Director. The prize is sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and has a value of $2,000."
Categories: AwardsHear Ezra Pound
Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:49amPENNsound has added an audio repository of Ezra Pound readings. Not to sound trite, but there's always something magical about hearing read poetry— especially when it's someone like Ezra Pound.
Categories: PoetryRollback: A Review
Saturday, Apr 28, 2007 at 4:34pmI had the pleasure of joining Robert J. Sawyer for dinner prior to his reading of Rollback, his seventeenth novel, at our Grant Park location. We had a great discussion at Cafe Carlo about the past, present and future of Science Fiction in general, and Rob's place in it in particular.
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