Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy announced today that novelist Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize in literature. She is the eleventh woman to win literature’s biggest prize since the Nobel’s inception in 1901.
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Robert Hass, Denis Johnson, Edwidge Danticat Among 2007 National Book Award Finalists
The finalists for the 58th annual National Book Awards were announced today by Camile Paglia at the Library Company in Philadelphia, the oldest circulating public library in the United States.
An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs is an editor at large for Esquire and one of the premiere immersion journalists and humorists working today. His previous book, The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to be the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster, 2004) recounted his attempt to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. His new book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible,
published this month by Simon & Schuster, tells about another
quixotic endeavor. Needless to say, it was a difficult one, given the
Bible’s eight hundred explicit rules, many of which are bizarre and
unexplained—no mixed fibers; no touching unclean women—plus lots of
guidelines and suggestions.
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Paramount Delays Release of Film Version of The Kite Runner to Protect Child Actors
Paramount recently announced it will push back the release of the film version of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner
(Bloomsbury, 2003), directed by Marc Forster, in order to protect its
child actors whose performances, particularly in a rape scene, could
trigger violence in Kabul. Afghan and American officials, as well as
the actors’ families, have expressed concern that the film may
exacerbate hostility between ethnic groups—the politically dominant
Pashtun and the historically oppressed Hazara.
Dybek and Cole Receive $500,000 "Genius" Fellowships
The MacArthur Foundation recently announced that poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek and poet and publisher Peter Cole are among the twenty-four recipients of this year’s “genius” fellowships.
NEA Launches Initiative to Celebrate Historic Poetry Sites
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) unveiled yesterday a pilot initiative to celebrate national historic sites related to poetry. As part of the NEA’s Big Read, the new program will give Extraordinary Action grants to encourage communities to commemorate American poets in the regions in which they lived.
National Book Foundation Names This Year's "5 Under 35"
The National Book Foundation announced yesterday the names of five young fiction writers who will receive "5 Under 35" awards.
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