The Best Translated Book Award has announced its winner: Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai, tr. from the Hungarian by George Szirtes This was my choice this year (and Stone Upon Stone was my choice last year — seriously, this is an award worth watching!). Here are my thoughts, and congrats to all.
I have had Johnson’s story collection (connected story collection, that is) Jesus’ Son (1992) on my shelf for a long time. For whatever reason, despite others reading it and recommending it highly, I avoided it. But I loved finally getting to know Johnson through his novella Train Dreams (my review here), which attracted me due
Kamila Shamsie’s “Vipers” is the first story in Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4. For an overview of the issue and links to my reviews of its other stories, please click here. Shamsie happens to be the only novelist on the list who has written a novel I’ve read and reviewed on this blog.
A couple of weeks ago, much of the literary world was abuzz when Granta announced their fourth list of “Best of Young British Novelists,” a once-per-decade tradition they started 1983. Famously, their past lists have spotted the early talent of young authors who have gone on to produce acclaimed work, such as Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Rose Tremain, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, A.L. Kennedy,
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