Read all about it in Eirik Wekre's new crime novel The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Trollmannens Læregutt). Trustworthy, exciting and highly up-to-date. Incredible timing!
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Eirik Wekre is the first book in a new Norwegian crime mystery of high class. Oslo becomes the scene for crime when the Nobel’s Peace Price is given to the EU. We got real goose bumps when we learned that Eirik Wekre’s fantasy became reality. We were having meetings at the Frankfurt book fair and when presenting the idea that EU would win the price, the reactions was from all over the same. To give EU the Peace Price, that would be provocative and crazy. Well now it is real and we really hope that Eirik Wekre’s version of what might happen in Oslo, wan’t become reality as well!
NORLA grants translation subsidy to foreign publishers. Translation subsidies are only available for the translation costs of a work written by a Norwegian author, and published in Norwegian by a Norwegian publisher.
Applications deadlines are: April 1 , August 1 and December 1 (fiction titles)
Ostatniego dnia targów, 14 października, w Kościele Św. Pawła we Frankfurcie wręczona zostanie najbardziej prestiżowa nagroda branży wydawniczej w Niemczech: Pokojowa Nagroda Księgarzy Niemieckich.
Nagroda w wysokości 25 tys. Euro przyznawana jest od 1950 roku. W tym roku otrzyma ją chiński pisarz, poeta i reporter Liao Yiwu.
Ogłoszono krótką listę książek nominowanych do tegorocznej Scotiabank Giller Prize - jednej z najbardziej prestiżowych kanadyjskich nagród literackich. 4 tytuły reprezentuje nasza agencja.
1. THE IMPOSTER BRIDE by Nancy Richler
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Jury Citation:
"The mystery of Lily Azerov, the ‘imposter bride’ of Nancy Richler’s rich, complex, compassionate novel, shifts through Lily’s past and her daughter, Ruth’s, present, interwoven with the perceptions of her whole extended family, as they adjust to the comforts of life in Montreal. All have been touched by the grotesque violence of the Holocaust, all find ways to prevail, tell stories and laugh – all except for Lily, whose burden of guilt is too great to acknowledge. A wonderfully nuanced work of fiction by a master of the craft."
Biography:
Nancy Richler’s short fiction has been published in various American and Canadian literary journals, including Room of One’s Own, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Another Chicago Magazine and The Journey Prize Anthology. Her first novel, Throwaway Angels, was published in 1996 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. Her second novel, Your Mouth Is Lovely, won the 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction and Italy’s 2004 Adei-Wizo Prize. It has been translated into seven languages. Born in Montreal, Nancy Richler lived for many years in Vancouver but has recently returned to Montreal.
2. RU by Kim Thúy
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Jury Citation:
"The purpose of my birth was to replace lives that had been lost. My life's duty was to prolong that of my mother." With those words Ru takes off on a difficult journey, from Vietnam to Quebec, from one language to another, rendered in exquisite, unsentimental prose. Kim Thúy is a born storyteller, but she rewrites the traditional immigrant narrative in a completely new way, makes it whole and wondrous once more."
Biography:
Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing.
3. WHIRL AWAY by Russell Wangersky
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Jury Citation:
"Whirl Away is a marvelous collection of stories. Each story stands starkly and wonderfully alone. Some of them carry a very quick thump; others have the scope, the extra pages that allow a glimpse at longer lives. Regrets, mistakes, accidents – the stories are full of them and their consequences. They are full of people trying to cope, trying to change, trying to live. They are stories of lives close to breaking, written with great confidence and skill."
Biography:
Russell Wangersky’s most recent book, The Glass Harmonica, won the 2010 BMO Winterset Award and was longlisted for the Relit Awards. His previous book, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself won Canada’s largest non-fiction prize, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction as well as the Rogers Communications Newfoundland and Labrador Non-Fiction Book Award and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. It was also a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Non- Fiction Prize and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 selection in 2008. His 2006 short story collection The Hour of Bad Decisions was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, first book, Canada and the Caribbean. It was a Globe and Mail Top 100 selection in 2006. Wangersky lives and works in St. John’s, where he is an editor and columnist with the St. John’s Telegram.
4. 419 by Will Ferguson
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Jury Citation:
"Will Ferguson's 419 points in the direction of something entirely new: the Global Novel. It is a novel emotionally and physically at home in the poverty of Lagos and in the day-to-day of North America. It tells us the ways in which we are now bound together and reminds us of the things that will always keep us apart. It brings us the news of the world far beyond the sad, hungry faces we see on CNN and CBC and far beyond the spreadsheets of our pension plans. Ferguson is a true travel writer, his eye attuned to the last horrible detail. He is also a master at dialogue and suspense. It is tempting to put 419 in some easy genre category, but that would only serve to deny its accomplishment and its genius."
Biography:
Will Ferguson is the award-winning author of Happiness™, Spanish Fly, and Beyond Belfast. He lives in Calgary with his wife and their two sons.
* * * * * * ABOUT SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE * * * * * *
The Scotiabank Giller Prize is Canada’s most distinguished literary prize, awarding $50,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. Finalists on the shortlist receive $5,000. The award was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
MATERIAŁY RECENZENCKIE:
WHIRL AWAY - Renata Paczewska, renata@literatura.com.pl
419 - Renata Paczewska, renata@literatura.com.pl
RU - Agata Żabowska, agata@literatura.com.pl
THE IMPOSTER BRIDE - Agata Żabowska, agata@literatura.com.pl
W NYT pojawiła się recenzja autobiograficznej książki Arnolda Schwarzeneggera, do której prawa reprezentuje ANAW.
"When Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, a reporter asked about the Cohiba label on the cigar Mr. Schwarzenegger was smoking. “That’s a Cuban cigar,” the reporter said. “You’re the governor. How can you flout the law?”
The answer was as good a one-sentence encapsulation of the bodybuilder/entrepreneur/movie star/politician/braggart’s philosophy as all of “Total Recall,” his 646-page memoir, provides. “I smoke it because it’s a great cigar,” he said.
This is only one of countless ways Mr. Schwarzenegger has prized self-interest throughout his long, glory-stalking and (as he loves pointing out) extremely lucrative career. “Total Recall” contains nonstop illustrations of how he aims high, tramples on competitors, breaks barriers and savors every victory, be it large or small. Those who mistake “Total Recall” for a salacious tell-all may not be that interested in how many Mr. Olympia contests he won (seven) or who he beat for a Golden Globe in 1977 (Truman Capote and the kid who played Damien in “The Omen”). Let’s get the scandalous stuff out of the way, because Mr. Schwarzenegger certainly wants to.
About the son he conceived with the family housekeeper, Mildred Baena, in 1996, he says only this: that he had always promised himself not to fool around with the help. That once, “all of a sudden,” he and Ms. Baena “were alone in the guesthouse.” And immediately after that: “When Mildred gave birth the following August. ...”
"PANIC IN A SUITCASE"
What took you so long? You had to wait until the sun was strongest! Put on a hat. Take a dip. Come here. Don’t get sand on that. Want a sandwich, a drink, oh I know, an apricot?
It’s a short but dense novel about a Ukraine family trying to find their place in Brighton Beach, New York. The novel takes place in the beginning of the 90s and sneakily spans nearly 20 years, starting from the moment uncle Pasha arrives in Brighton Beach (aka Little Odessa) from Odessa (Ukraine) to visit his family during a kind of experimental visit in the USA. Pasha is a poet, sickly and superior. His family, consisting of his imperious mother, meek doctor father, sister, brother-in-law and awkwardly observant niece, has just settled in America and is hoping Pasha will overcome his habitual passivity and move his son and wife to the US with him. There is illness, uncomfortable aging, additional visits for Pasha, still uncertain about what he ought to do and a shifting perspective on what it means to be in the USA, forever new and unsettled, attached indivisibly to a homeland and habits.
Here’s Jim’s lovely remarks on the writing: “It's all eyes and ears, the kind of wised up lyricism that I can't help but compare, uneasily, to Aleksandar Hemon. The narrative arc is admittedly slight and curiously shaped, but Yelena managed to infuse each utterance with such consequence and wisdom, that you can't help but get pulled along, entranced by the next thought.”
An excerpt has been published in n+1 where Yelena has been published before.
Zainteresowanych materiałami do recenzji prosimy o kontakt z Agatą Żabowską
agata@literatura.com.pl