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Jane Gardam in line for major short story prize
Adam Thorpe and Jane Gardam head the shortlist for the National Short Story prize, the world's richest single story award, announced earlier today. They are joined on the shortlist for £15,000... -
Thanks Kepler's
Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park (CA) has a whole display of Europa Editions books up this month. Naturally, we're pretty chuffed. Thanks go to store managers and all the booksellers at Kepler's... -
Guardian Book Blog on Translated Fiction
A short but optimistic (ahh!) item by Stuart Evers on the Guardian book blog cites the extraordinary success of Haruki Murakami's books as evidence of a change of heart towards fiction in translation... -
A Podcast interview with Katharina Hacker
A fascinating podcast hosted by Brendan O'Shea with Katharina Hacker, author of the German Book Prize-winning Have-Nots. Listen >> -
Europa Edition's Fall 2008 Season
Pub Date: September The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery the book • reviews • author info • news • tour Pub Date: October Clash of Civilizations Over... -
Nouvelle Philosophe: Interview with Muriel Barbery
Interview with the author of the international bestselling novel Elegance of the Hedgehog... A posh building in rue de Grenelle (Paris), its days recounted from two points of view, one belonging to... -
The Guardian: Interview with Amélie Nothomb, author of Tokyo Fiancée
It takes me a while to recognise the short, dark-haired woman who comes to fetch me from the lobby at the publisher Albin Michel. She advances towards me with a smile, shakes my hand and asks if I'd like... -
Music, life, literature, and Jean-Claude Izzo...from the Guardian Unlimited Blog
Jean-Claude Izzo's novels make brilliant use of musical allusions in portraying France's ethnic divisions About a third of the way through Lost Sailors, the most recent English-language translation... -
The New Yorker: "Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral"
In this brutally frank novel of maternal ambivalence, the narrator, a forty-seven-year-old divorcée summering alone on the Ionian coast, becomes obsessed with a beautiful young mother who seems... -
The Seattle Times: "This superb and scary Italian writer . . . has blown the lid off tempestuous parent-child relations."
If you are looking for uplifting bromides about the intimate mother-daughter bond, do not look to Elena Ferrante's novels. This superb and scary...