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Guardian Book Blog on Translated Fiction
A short but optimistic (ahh!) item by Stuart Evers on the Guardian book blog cites the extraordinary success of Haruki Murakami's books as evidence of a change of heart towards fiction in translation... -
A Podcast interview with Katharina Hacker
A fascinating podcast hosted by Brendan O'Shea with Katharina Hacker, author of the German Book Prize-winning Have-Nots. Listen >> -
Europa Edition's Fall 2008 Season
Pub Date: September The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery the book • reviews • author info • news • tour Pub Date: October Clash of Civilizations Over... -
Nouvelle Philosophe: Interview with Muriel Barbery
Interview with the author of the international bestselling novel Elegance of the Hedgehog... A posh building in rue de Grenelle (Paris), its days recounted from two points of view, one belonging to... -
The Guardian: Interview with Amélie Nothomb, author of Tokyo Fiancée
It takes me a while to recognise the short, dark-haired woman who comes to fetch me from the lobby at the publisher Albin Michel. She advances towards me with a smile, shakes my hand and asks if I'd like... -
Music, life, literature, and Jean-Claude Izzo...from the Guardian Unlimited Blog
Jean-Claude Izzo's novels make brilliant use of musical allusions in portraying France's ethnic divisions About a third of the way through Lost Sailors, the most recent English-language translation... -
The New Yorker: "Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral"
In this brutally frank novel of maternal ambivalence, the narrator, a forty-seven-year-old divorcée summering alone on the Ionian coast, becomes obsessed with a beautiful young mother who seems... -
The Seattle Times: "This superb and scary Italian writer . . . has blown the lid off tempestuous parent-child relations."
If you are looking for uplifting bromides about the intimate mother-daughter bond, do not look to Elena Ferrante's novels. This superb and scary... -
Massimo Carlotto and Amara Lakhous on stage at the Turin book fair
Massimo Carlotto's stage adaptation of his most recent novel, Allah's Christians (Cristiani di Allah) at the Turin Book Fair May 10th. (Video in Italian) -
People on Privilege Hill selected as one of Fresh Air's summer reads
Jane Gardam’s The People on Privilege Hill has been selected by the NPR's Fresh Air as one of their recommended books for summer reading. A story from the collection will soon be available...