January 2016 – Encyclopedia of World Literature

American literary awards

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Agatha AwardAlex AwardsAlfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary AchievementThe Alice B Readers AwardAmazon Breakthrough Novel AwardAmazon’s Best Books of the YearAmbassador Book AwardAmerica Award in LiteratureAmerican Book AwardsAmerican History Book PrizeAML AwardsAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardAnthony AwardsArab American Book AwardArkansas Arabic Translation AwardArthur Ross Book AwardAsian American Literary AwardsAsian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureAthenaeum Literary AwardAudie AwardBBalrog AwardBancroft […]

Umberto Eco tracking down a book in his massive library is your new competence porn.
The late Umberto Eco—professor, novelist, children’s book author—was a man of many talents. One of which, as seen in a video clip posted on Twitter by Ted Giola, was quickly finding books in his famously massive personal library. I once got to meet Umberto Eco—who was very memorable. But this film clip of him tracking […]
Donald Trump Will Never Understand the Pain He Has Caused
Sometime in the night there’d been rain, a cold front in from the Atlantic. But by morning all that was gone. The clouds thinned into a blue unbroken chain, and the sunrise came on, first in the Washington Monument and then against the Kennedy Center and the Capitol dome; a swift, intermittent dawn that brightened […]
Meet the illustrator making art based on Haruki Murakami’s short stories.
Ard Su’s colorful, stylized illustrations have accompanied fiction by Lorrie Moore in The New Yorker and interviews on NPR NextGen. But before she completed her MA in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she studied Japanese, in the process of which she discovered her love for Haruki Murakami—and now, she counts the novelist […]
Amanda Gorman won the inauguration.
Between Bernie’s mittens, Ella Emhoff’s coat (and iconic Pence mocking), and the president of the United States no longer being a proudly monstrous coup-stoking white supremacist, there were some big wins at yesterday’s inauguration. Of course, as a literary website, we are honor-bound hand it to Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old inaugural poet (and the country’s […]
Ursula K. Le Guin stamps are coming to a post office near you.
Remember that one week last year when we were all pushing to save the USPS? Well, here is another reason to support them: they’re putting beloved sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin on a stamp! Honestly, why is this not something all writers aspire to? Awards come and go. Cash prizes get spent. Names fall […]

Month: January 2016

American literary awards

“Insomnia”, TAHAR BEN JELLOUN.

Gonzalo Aurelio Esteva y Landero

James Joyce

10 modern Arab writers who are proving that Arabic still matters

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