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Reaction to Herta MÃ¼ller’s Nobel Prize win

The Romanian-born German author Herta MÃ¼ller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. If you've never heard of her before, that's understandable: while she's widely read in Eastern Europe and is one of Germany's ... Read More »

October 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Who will win the Nobel?

By Nathan Whitlock

It's not quite the biggest reward that can be given to a writer (that would be inclusion in Oprah's Book Club, or maybe Richard and Judy's), but the Nobel Prize for Literature is nothing to ... Read More »

October 7, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

Le Clezio’s work will appear in The New Yorker for the first time

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Earlier this month, Quillblog copped ignorance to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio's work, since there was only one English title available on Amazon. Apparently, the announcement of Le Clezio the winner of this year's Nobel Prize ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Pamuk wins Nobel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Well-known Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who has been much in the news lately for his freedom-of-speech struggles in his homeland, has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. Given the cries of who? that often ... Read More »

October 12, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

More on GraSS

By Cassandra Drudi

The fallout from Gunther Grass's SS confessions continues to fly fast and furious, with everyone throwing their two cents at the man, hoping to gouge out an eye or at least chip a tooth. Bookninja ... Read More »

August 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Australian publishers don't like the cut of Nobel-winner's jib

By Cassandra Drudi

Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author must be rolling in his grave this week -- not a single major publisher or literary agent would release his stuff today, it seems. Earlier this summer, The Australian sent ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Politics and the pen

By Leigh Anne Williams

With Michael Ignatieff eyeing the Liberal Party leadership, we're now facing the possibility of a genuine novelist actually running the country at some point down the road. (Though better known for his non-fiction, Ignatieff has ... Read More »

April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

In Other Media gets emotional about climate change

By Scott MacDonald

Still riding high on a stellar talk delivered last night in Toronto by David Suzuki in which he both predicted imminent environmental collapse unless people change their ways right now and condemned the mainstream media's ... Read More »

February 10, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Booker shortlist announced

By Scott MacDonald

In a year that saw landmark books written by the big names of British fiction -- Rushdie, Barnes, Coetzee, McEwan, and Ali and Zadie Smith to name a few -- the big question preceding this ... Read More »

September 9, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

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