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 […]

The Matrix 4 is happening, and Aleksander Hemon and David Mitchell wrote the script.
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NPR: The world is on fire but these books are funny.
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Meryl Streep to star in a new Steven Soderbergh film written by Deborah Eisenberg!
Well this is a happy Hollywood mad lib: HBO Max has announced that Meryl Streep will star in Steven Soderbergh’s next project, Let Them All Talk, a lit-world cruise drama (please let this become a niche genre) written by the great Deborah Eisenberg. The movie, which will also star Candace Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges, […]
New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what’s publishing today, fiction and nonfiction.
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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

The 10 Best Writers From Modern Turkey

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