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International Bestsellers: Prizewinners!

February 1, 2007

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The young German über-poet, Silke Scheuermann, makes her novelistic debut this month with The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (Schoeffling). Much as in her successful short story collection, Rich Girls (2005, also Schoeffling), Scheuermann employs her poetic facility to good effect as she renders the confusion and frustration her generation faces as it attempts to…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged AKO Literature Prize, Alvaro Pombo, Andreas Klein, Antonia Kerrigan Agency, Audur Jonsdottir, Bernat Fiol, Deutsches Haus, Edda, Halldor Laxness, Hans Munstermann, Icelandic Literary Prize, In a Time of Prodigies, Jan Tetteroo, Kathrin Scheel, L.J. Veen, Love Token, Marie-Anne van Wijnen, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, Nobel Prize, Nordic Council Literary Prize, NYU, Premio Planeta, Rich Girls, Schoeffling, Silke Scheuermann, The Enchantment, The Happy Year 1940, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Ua Matthiasdottir

International Bestsellers: Joe Speedboat & Friends

August 1, 2006

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Sylvia Plath, Puberty, & A Slowly Setting Midnight Sun Combining the quirky prose of Paul Auster and the eccentricity of The World According to Garp, Dutch author Tommy Wieringa’s latest novel, Joe Speedboat (De Bezige Bij), injects the classic Bildungsroman with postmodern absurdity. The eponymous protagonist, a fourteen year-old bomb expert, airplane builder, and kinetic…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged A Speech for My Sister's Wedding, Actes Sud, Bengt Nordin, Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen, Danai Daska, De Bezige Bij, Edda, Fortune's Child, Guys Beware This God and She's Really Pissed Off, Gyldendal, Hanser, Hayo Deinum, Heleni Papadaki, Hoffmann and Campe, Humanity in Action, Icelandic Bookseller, Icelandic Literary, In the time of the Chrysanthemums, Iperborea, Joe Speedboat, Karakutu, Linda Skugge, Little Book of Puberty, Lorraine Shanley, Manos Eleftheriou, Metaixmio, Paul Auster, Pussymob, Siobhan O'Leary, Steinunn Sigurdadottir, Sylvia Plath, The Woman Who Died Twice, The World According to Garp, This is Not a Book, Tommy Wieringa, Two Trees in Jersusalem, Valerie Schneider, Valgerdur Benediktsdottir, Wahlstrom and Widstrand

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