Read all about it here http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/
and appraisal at the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/books/08appraisal.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
Cormac McCarthy much better writer in my opinion.
Is Cormac McCarthy really headed for the Nobel?
Granta’s List of Rising Literary Stars Spotlights Spanish-Language Authors
Pleased to say that 8 of the 22 are Argentinians
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/books/02granta.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
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Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards
Fiction winner is Summertime by J.M Cotzee
Non-Fiction winner The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
See the other winners here
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Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books
Is it really the ereader’s fault or the big publishing companies using them as an excuse?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461542987870022.html
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Nigerian Nobel laureate launches political party
Nobel literature laureate Muller expected in Bucharest
2009 Nobel laureate in Literature Herta Muller is expected in Bucharest on September 27-28.During her Romanian visit, Muller will have a public conversation with author Gabriel Liiceanu at the Romanian Athenaeum…
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September Newsletter Now Out
Click here to download it or go to our sidebar and click on September 2010
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Jeanette Winterson interview
On the 20th anniversary of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit a short interview
Goddess
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/09/interview-work-art-girl-doing
http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/
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At Schiphol, an Unlikely Sanctuary of Books
The dutch are so civilized!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/arts/16iht-library.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
Gold Coast Book Lovers 