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Polish writer Paweł Huelle died at 66. I remember @Liam recommending me/us Who Was David Weiser? a few months ago, prompting me to purchase the book... needless to say, I haven't read it yet, but very much want to...

We don't seem to have a thread dedicated to Paul Auster, despite him being one of North America's most successful living writers, but it's never too late, so here it is... with a recent profile on him...

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Dương Thu Hương's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/books/vietnamese-writer-wont-be-silenced.html Feel free to share any links related to her, as well as ideas on where to start reading the author :)

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Lyudmila Ulitskaya's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/lyudmila-ulitskaya-04-03-23 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/weight-words Feel free to share any links related to...

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Anne Carson's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/the-inscrutable-brilliance-of-anne-carson.html https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-anne-carson/...

So, I believe we can start thinking about our next year award project, right? Just refreshing our minds of the rules we were operating under these past few years: 1. We should nominate only living authors who haven't won the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2. Our nominations should consist of three...

American giant, Cormac McCarthy, has passed away at 89. A great loss for Literature. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/books/cormac-mccarthy-dead.html

It's that time of year again, when we share some thoughts on writers who may win this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, and along the way we get to talk about new writers to read. Up to 2021 we resorted to the Nobel Library to have an idea of the authors the Swedish Academy was probably reading...

British writer Martin Amis has passed away, at 73. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html What's most interesting (if you pardon my word choice) is Jonathan Glazer's film "The Zone of Interest", based on the author's homonymous novel, premiered the day before at Cannes...

German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger has passed away. See: https://www.dw.com/en/german-author-hans-magnus-enzensberger-dies/a-63883057

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Scholastique Mukasonga's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-scholastique-mukasonga/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/scholastique-mukasonga-06-22-20 Feel free to...

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Jon Fosse's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/06/09/pure-prose/ https://www.musicandliterature.org/features/2019/10/4/a-conversation-with-jon-fosse Feel free to share any links related to him...

This is a space for sharing thoughts on António Lobo Antunes's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://themillions.com/2012/05/lost-in-translation-the-curious-obscurity-of-antonio-lobo-antunes.html...

As has been demanded, here is the 2023 thread for the Wolfie! Just refreshing our minds of the rules we were operating under last year: 1. We should nominate only living authors who haven't won the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2. Our nominations should consist of three writers, ranked. 3. The...

American poet, author, and translator Robert Bly died, at 94. I remember reading some of his translations of Tranströmer poems, and, although very different from the version contained in the Swedish poet's collected works, they read quite beautifully lush and sensual. The two poets were friends...

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Gerald Murnane's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/reading-gerald-murnane/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-strange-australian-masterpiece

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Fleur Jaeggy's works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/25/the-austere-fiction-of-fleur-jaeggy Six of her eight books have been translated into English: The Water Statues Sweet Days of Discipline...

This is a space for sharing thoughts on Javier Marías’ works read for our WLF Prize in Literature project. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-worldly-digressions-of-javier-marias

I believe it's time for us to start thinking about which writers to read and discuss next year, right? Just refreshing our minds of the rules we were operating under last year: 1. We should nominate only living authors who haven't won the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2. Our nominations should...

I've asked for book recommendations before, creating individual threads for it, and I've seen others doing the same, so I thought of creating this one in order to have a single place for it. The idea is: maybe you're looking for a book set in a certain place, or having a given mood, or...