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2011 Best Translated Book Award Longlist
The award has grown greatly over the past few years. Beginning as an online-only event, the Best Translated Book Awards now feature an awards ceremony and a $5,000 cash prize—awarded to each winning author and translator, thanks to the support of Amazon.com .
Read all about it
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3757
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Books of the year, interesting article from The Independent
Howard Jacobson richly deserved his Booker prize, but so many other novels divided cultured opinion
By Katy Guest
At the back of Douglas Coupland’s latest novel, Player One, there is a glossary of made-up modern vocabulary which doesn’t, but easily could, include the term “The Coupland Perception Incomprehensibility Paradox”: the increasingly frustrating realisation that well-read people whom one cares about and respects quite frequently nurture opinions about literature which are inexplicably contrary to one’s own.
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David Foster wins Patrick White Lit Award but is a sourpuss
Chip on his shoulder
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Patti Smith Wins National Book Award for Memoir
PM honours Australia’s top titles
Man Booker Prize throws up surprise winner
Man Booker prize and its like are keeping literature afloat
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize
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.
Gold Coast Book Lovers 