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Understanding Nobel Prize: The Lost Years
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The Nobel Literature Prize weren't awarded for the years 1914 and 1918 and from 1940---1943 due to the impact of the war. However, after...
May 3, 2024
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🇫🇷 Alain Fournier- The Lost Estate 🇺🇸 Theodore Roethke- Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
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🇮🇷 Simin Daneshvar, Sutra & Other Stories 🇷🇺 Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Big Green Tent
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As long as it was Jane Austen and not Michael Cunningham, I'd read it! Imagine all those cute, well-behaved little Darcy children and...
May 3, 2024
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Very shocked to hear about Auster's demise. I have actually read his wife Siri's books, and I remembered an article I read about her...
May 2, 2024
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from today's New York Times, a profile of Jenny Erpenbeck A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History By Steven...
Apr 29, 2024
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I think why part of it is depressive is because Couto was trying to describe a society ravaged/torn by the effects of war. I can say...
Apr 27, 2024
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Among Africans, when we want to mention classic novels, novels usually mentioned are TFa, A Grain of Wheat, Cry the Beloved Country...
Apr 27, 2024
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I mean, you can major in Portuguese in Zagreb, so I guess there are plenty of people that at least theoretically can translate from...
Apr 27, 2024
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Who is the Croatian translator who translates from Portuguese? Does he/she translate books from Brazil too?
Apr 27, 2024
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I'm a big fan of Agualusa! I liked My Father's Wives most of his books that I've read, however I haven't yet read Chameleons. Maybe...
Apr 27, 2024
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Yes, I did read "A General Theory of Oblivion" (it was good), "The Book of Chameleons" (it was fantastic!), "Creole" (it was OK) and now...
Apr 27, 2024
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A review of Jacob´s Ladder: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/jacobs-ladder-ludmila-ulitskaya
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Thanks, Ben!
Apr 27, 2024
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The other link has some issues, here's another
Apr 26, 2024
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