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Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ Wins the International Booker Prize
New York Times· 7 hours agoTranslated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major...
Alice Munro, short story writer, Nobel Prize-winning author, dead at 92
WSB Radio· 7 days agoAlice Munro, a Canadian author who was a master of short stories and won a Nobel Prize for ...
German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair
Associated Press· 7 hours agoGerman author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for...
Review: 'Girl From the North Country' blows into the Pantages on a Bob Dylan wind
Los Angeles Times· 5 days ago“Girl From the North Country” doesn’t behave like a traditional book musical. It makes sense that...
Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92
San Mateo Daily Journal· 7 days agoA spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary ...
Book Tour: At home with Amor Towles
Washington Post· 4 days ago“Now you’re in the first-edition zone,” Towles said, opening the glass doors directly behind his writing desk. Towles has long been a fan of Bob Dylan;...
Author Alice Munro's death 'bittersweet' at Victoria bookstore that carries her name
MSN News· 5 days agoVICTORIA — Justina Elias says she didn't know about the connection legendary Canadian writer Alice...
Alice Munro followed the back roads of stories, mapping routes home to southwestern Ontario
The Conversation· 6 days agoAs the 2013 Nobel Prize presentation honouring her as “the master of the contemporary short story,” put it: “It may seem like a paradox, but it is actually ...
The End of Civic Compassion
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoToni Morrison, like Imre Kertész, is a Nobel Prize winner in literature. Beloved, Morrison’s most famous novel, concerns the horrors ...
France to name Dallas publisher a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
Dallas Morning News· 5 days agoMonday, Evans will be thanked for his efforts spreading French literature by officially becoming a...