MEMBER BLOG TAG: new world voices
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:05PM | | | | Four Visions of Yasmina Khadra | Tags: New World Voices, The Believer, Salman Rushdie, Dave Eggers, Yasmina Khadra, Colin Harrison, Niccolo Amminiti, Heidi Julavits, Uzodinma Iweala, Isobel Hoving, Miranda July, Eric Bogosian
| | | | Friday night onstage in the exquisite wood-paneled auditorium at The Morgan Library, New York Noir novelist and Scribner editor Colin Harrison asks a question of Mohammad Moulessehoul, the expatriate Algerian soldier who under the pseudonym Yasmina Khadra is a best-selling author in France, honored with the 2001 Medaille d'Or de l'Academie Francaise and the 2006 Prix des Libraires.
Harrison, filling in as PEN World Voices Festival "Mediterranean Noir" moderator for Alice Sebold, who broke her leg, has neatly set up the evening but quoting Jean-Claude Izzo, who in his essay, "The Blue and the Black," writes that the Mediterranean gave the world the first noir books (Cain and Abel in the Bible, the Greek tragedies) as well as Camus's "The Stranger," which Izzo calls the... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:55AM | | | | Nine Writers to Watch | Tags: New World Voices, Granta
| | | Ian Jack, outgoing editor after 12 years, presided over an introduction of Granta's "best of" young American novelists at the New School last night. He reminisced about the beginning of the "best" in 1983, when the writers were British and the concept was considered vulgar, like "The best of British beef." And the beginning of the "best American" in 1996, when Raymond Carver was king and those chosen included Sherman Alexie (who got a rave review in today's NY Times for his latest novel, "Flight"), Edwige Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen (who was ambivalent about his selection, duh, foreshadowing there), Fae Myenne Ng, Chris Offutt, Mona Simpson, Melanie Rae Thon.
Last night, as nine of the 21 "best" were in the... | | | | | |
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