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Brad Pitt takes AMERICANAH to the screen
Great news for fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book Americanah, amongst whom I count myself.
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Fabulous foreign fiction prize – how I travel without leaving the sofa
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is a literary prize worth paying attention to. It selects the best fiction from around the world and rewards the unsung heros of the publishing world – the translators – as well as the authors. The £ 10,000 prize money is shared between the author and the translator.
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Brilliant AMERICANAH by Adichie wins National Book Critics Circle award
One of my favourite books, and indeed authors, Americanah by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has just won the National Book Critics Circle’s fiction award, a prestigious American literary prize.
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Why short-stories and I don’t get along…
The winner of the Folio Prize 2014 was announced last week, a collection of short-stories by American George Saunders called Tenth of December.
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Will this App revolutionise reading? Have a try!
A Boston-based technology company has invented an App, called Spritz, which makes it possible to read an astonishing 1000 words per minute. A typical novel, around 90,000 words or 360 pages, would take 90 minutes to read using Spritz.
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Another week, another book prize… first Folio Prize 2014 shortlist announced
The recently established Folio Prize published their first shortlist last week. The £40,000 prize which aims to ‘to celebrate the best fiction of our time, regardless of form or genre, and to bring it to the attention of as many readers as possible’ is the first book prize to be open to all English language fiction from around the world. The Folio Prize was set up on the back of the dismal 2011 Booker Prize which was deemed too low-brow by the literary community.
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Going away? Need ideas for holiday reading? Look no further…
Do you prefer to bring ‘light’ reading on your holiday or are you one of those who sees it as a chance to dig into some more heavy going titles? I oscillate between the two, so I’ll suggest a bit of both.
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What ‘Tiger Mom’ did next…
Many of you will remember a highly controversial article on parenting style in The Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago written by Chinese American Amy Chua. You know, the one whose children have never been allowed a playdate, a sleepover or to get any grade less than an A; who practise their instruments three hours a day and are perfect on all quantifiable dimensions.
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Debut Author Nathan Filer Surprise Winner of Costa Book of The Year Award for his book The Shock of the Fall
Debut author Nathan Filer surprised everyone today by winning the Costa Book of the Year Award for his book The Shock of the Fall (Filer won the Costa First Novel Award earlier this month.)
