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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/paul-auster-dies-aged-77-death-american-author-new-york-trilogy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/john-barth-dead.html What a terrible day for literature :cry:

Portuguese poet Nuno Júdice has died at the age of 74 years old. https://www.razon.com.mx/cultura/poeta-nuno-judice-importantes-portugal-muere-74-anos-569389

Hard to believe. Just a few months back, September of last year, I got to see him in Hay Festival Querétaro. He presented a first novel of a very ambitious project about the history of Croatia and the Balcans which he said it could be up to 10 novels. Time gave so little time. So sad to hear...

https://nypost.com/2024/01/18/news/rie-kudan-used-ai-to-help-write-the-tokyo-tower-of-sympathy/ Thoughts?

Mexican writer José Agustín passed away today at the age of 79. I don't think he was known worldwide but he was a respected and key figure for some Mexican literary movements from the 60' and 70's...

OK, here you go, drop all your hate and spite to all these books that truly disappointed you during this year. Show no mercy! Don't focus on the worse books but the ones on which you had high expectations and didn't deliver, or were a total letdown. For me, I'm thinking in a couple of books by...

Not sure if you're ready (I'm not), but if you are, go ahead and drop your list here: I think I'll select ten books which is around 10-15% of my annual total. I'm also thinking about bringing back the thread of Most disappointing books of the year. It should be fun

Despite not knowing exactly what they mean with "last decade" (2010's or 2013-2023) it looks as a good selection. Haven't read all of them and some of them are not of my taste but still think it's worth sharing. https://librotea.com/estanterias/las-mejores-10-novelas-latinoamericanas-de-la-decada

https://apnews.com/article/louise-gluck-dies-38648b2dc19644e11f42319145692943 Hope is fake news.

This is not recent news, as he passed away January 31 2023, but it seems we missed it. I haven't read his poetry but after Inge Christensen's death he became the leading figure in Danish poetry.

Since @Benny Profane hasn't dropped his usual 35 new writers names a day I'm afraid I'll have to step myself ;) First thing to say about this author is that his real name was Hirai Tarō and his pen name is a transliteration (rōmaji) for one of his most admired writers, Edgar Allan Poe. I'm...

Hard to believe we don't have a thread on such an important writer like Tanizaki, probably one of the most important Japanese writers of the XX century. There has always been a debate if he or Kawabata deserved most that first Nobel Prize for a Japanese author. I think both are great writers but...

Kuroshima Denji was a Japanese writer during the Taisho, early Showa Period. He was classified in the proletarian litereature movement, however these tags cannot be definitive to describe his works. In a style many consider similar to Chejov (and I agree) he described not only his own experience...

Yokimitus Riichi (please note I'm using the Japanese naming, last name first) was a writer active in the early Showa era. Alongside Kawabata, he was the creator of the Shinkankakuha or The New Sensations Schools, a literary movement who tried to hybridize the influence of westernt influences...

Born Kunikida Tetsuo, he was a writer in the late Meiji era, who was tagged as a naturalist writer, a movement that had many detractors including important figures like Mori Ogai, Tanizaki Junichiro, Nagai Kafu, etc. It's true that naturalism in Japan was a trend that didn't fit quite well...

Takuboku, a PEN name which means "woodpecker", was a poet in the late Meiji period (beggining of the XX century). Just like Masaoka Shiki did with haiku he continued the modernization of Japanese traditional poetry, except he did it specifically with the tanka form. While haiku has a syllable...

Pen name for Fukuda Teiichi, Japanese writer of historical novels, most of them set in the Late Edo-Early Meiji time. With a very extensive research and a detailed approach he tries to bring light to this historical period that gave birth to the Modern Japan with the end of the Bakufu...

Japanese poet during the Meiji Era, Masaoka Shiki is considered the creator of the modern haiku. Based on the contributions of the other three masters of modern haiku (Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa) he helped to revitalize the haiku at a time where it had lost its prestige (Late...

Chilean Cervantes Prize winner Jorge Edwards died at the age of 91 https://elpais.com/cultura/2023-03-17/muere-el-escritor-chileno-jorge-edwards-a-los-91-anos.html What's going on? A lot of great writers gone in a week!