Posted on May 4th, 2012 by ascplpop
One of the most prestigious awards in American literature, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been awarded to some of America’s most highly regarded authors, including Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Jennifer Egan and Philip Roth. The jurors for selecting the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction submitted three unranked finalists to the board: David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, Karen [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2012 by ascplpop
Classic authors Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner were also avid hunters and outdoorsmen, writing fiction and memoirs of their outdoor advenutres. Take a trip with these contemporary writers on hunting, shooting and the outdoor life. Jim Harrison’s memoir, Off to the Side, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He catalogs [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2011 by ascplpop
The streets of Victorian London inspired Charles Dickens’ work. Across time and continents, contemporary authors have been inspired by Dickens’ books. Australian author Peter Carey has re-imagined Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations in two books: Jack Maggs, and Parrot and Olivier in America. Author Lloyd Jones, from New Zealand, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize with [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2011 by ascplpop
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The prize, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008, has only had three repeat winners: Peter Carey, J. M. [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2011 by ascplpop
Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. In order to be eligible for the Award, a book must be written by an American citizen and published by an American publisher between December 1 of the [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2011 by ascplpop
Westerns are not just about cowboys and Indians, as the recent Spur Awards show. (The Spur Awards are given annually by the Western Writers of America for distinguished writing about the American West.) Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler tells the amazing tale of American explorer John Fremont and his attempt to find a railway route to [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2010 by ascplpop
Patti Smith’s Just Kids won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night. To quote from Ecco, the publisher, “…[t]he legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2010 by ascplpop
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon, a novel about horse racing at a rinky-dink racetrack in Indian Mound Downs, West Virginia, was the surprise winner of this year’s National Book Award for fiction. The novel follows the lives of jockeys, loan sharks, metal smiths and other outcasts over the course of a year and four [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2010 by ascplpop
This year’s Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award, went to Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question, a comic novel about friendship, wisdom and anti-Semitism. The Finkler Question tells the story of Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer who meets an old philosopher friend, Sam Finkler, and their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, for dinner [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2010 by ascplpop
Some years the Nobel Prize judges have been accused of awarding the prize in literature to a relatively obscure author. That is not a claim that can be made this year. The 2010 winner, Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the greats of Latin American literature. In addition to his career as a [...]
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