Haruki Murakami awarded Franz Kafka literary prize
Date: October 31, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The internationally popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami has received the Franz Kafka literary prize in Prague. The $10,000 prize was given to the writer for his worldwide appeal that the organizers compared with that of Kafka.
Murakami has often referred to Kafka as his favourite author. Murakami’s 2002 novel Kafka on the Shore (pictured here) [...]
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2006 Prix Femina winners announced
Date: October 31, 2006 | Discussion: 4 Comments
The winners of the 2006 Prix Femina prize have been announced. The literary prize, created in 1904, is awarded annually by an all-female panel to the best novel published in French. The award also recognizes non-French work in a separate category.
Lignes de failleby Nancy Huston
In the main category, The Prix Femina was given to the [...]
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2006 Dylan Thomas award winner announced
Date: October 29, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The winner of the 2006 Dylan Thomas prize is the Welsh writer Rachel Trezise for her collection of short stories Fresh Apples. The announcement praised her for originality, and compared the work to James Joyce’s Dubliners.
Reports about the award also suggest that the panel in fact had a hard time choosing the winner, with the [...]
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2006 Nike Literary Price Winner Announced
Date: October 13, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The winner of Poland’s most prestigious literary award, Nike, was awarded last week. The prize was given to Dorota Maslowska for her novel Paw Krolowej (”The Queen’s Peacock”). The work is currently not yet available in English.
For Dorota Maslowska’s works available in English, see Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
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2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Announced
Date: October 12, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. In their announcement, the Nobel Committee points out that Pamuk “in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”.
Pamuk’s selection continues a recent string of what could be [...]
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2006 National Book Awards Finalists Announced (Poetry)
Date: October 11, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2006 poetry prize. They are:
Avernoby Louise Glück
Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück’s eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is [...]
