Alberto Manguel (ARGENTINA-CANADA)
The library at night |
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| The Library at night by Alberto Manguel was selected as best book of the year 2008 by Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007. Further information: Time Literary Suplement |
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Iván Thays (PERÚ)
Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro |
| FIRST FINALIST XXVI HERRALDE NOVEL PRIZE |
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| The Peruvian writer Iván Thays is First Finalist of the XXVI edition of the Herralde Prize for the novel A place named Oreja de Perro. The novel is an introspective story in which the protagonist just lost his five-year-old son and walks towards the breakup of his marriage. |
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Alberto Manguel (ARGENTINA - CANADA)
Todos los hombres son mentirosos |
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| Todos los hombres son mentirosos [All men are liars], Alberto Manguel’s newest novel published by RBA, will be available in all Spanish libraries on October 18th. |
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| Ricardo Piglia (ARGENTINA) |
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| 2008 Roger Callois Prize |
Ricardo Piglia has received the 2008 ROGER CAILLOIS Prize, awarded by La Maison de l'Amerique Latine and the Pen Club of France. The ROGER CAILLOIS Prize has been won on previous occasions by such acclaims writers as Mario Vargas Llosa, Alberto Manguel, Alvaro Mutis, Adolfo Bioy Casares and
Jose Donoso.
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| Hommage a Ricardo Piglia |
| The Sorbonne University (Paris) organized an international colloquium in homage to Ricardo Piglia on May 30 and 31, in which participated the author and several specialists of its work. |
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Martin Kohan (ARGENTINA)
Ciencias morales |
| XXV HERRALDE NOVEL PRIZE |
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| Moral Sciences, which in the words of its author is “autobiographical insofar as it contains all the elements of the genre save my own self as a character,” is set in an elite school in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 1980s, during the final stage of the Argentine dictatorship. A severe and sterile discipline prevails within the thick walls of the institution, an ironfisted morality students must make sure not to neglect in any circumstance of their lives. |
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| Carolina Aguirre (ARGENTINA) |
| BESTIARIA, THE BEST BLOG IN SPANISH (DEUTSCHE WELLE) |
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| Carolina Aguirre’s blog Bestiaria, which inspired the book of the same name (Editorial Aguilar), was elected by the public as the best blog in Spanish in the contest The Best of Blogs Awards, sponsored by Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The goal of the event is to encourage freedom of opinion and of the press throughout the world and provide a picture of the blog panorama at the global level. |
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Jordi Bonells (BARCELONA)
Sfumata |
| 10TH FERNANDO QUIÑONES UNICAJA NOVEL PRIZE |
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| Jordi Bonells wins the 10th Fernando Quiñones Unicaja Novel Prize for Sfumata, which will be published by Alianza Editorial in 2009.The novel is structured in the form of a diary and recounts the world travels of a chess player in search of a chess master. The panel described the winning novel as a “very intelligent” work that achieves “high-quality pages, that is, a high degree of plausibility.” The author creates a “powerful metaphor of life and creation.” |
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Gioconda Belli (NICARAGUA)
El infinito en la palma de la mano
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| SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ PRIZE |
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| The Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli has been awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize 2008, granted by the Guadalajara International Bookfair and the General Mexican Writers Society, for the novel Infinity in the palm of your hand, Biblioteca Breve Prize 2008, a story in which a mix of poetry and mystery evokes the lives of Adam and Eve in paradise. |
| 50º BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2008 AWARD WINNING NOVEL |
| Infinity in the palm of your hand earned (February 5th, 2008) the Biblioteca Breve 2008 Prize for its originality and evocative power. With it, Gioconda Belli has created a new world that rises up out of the great "secret books," apocryphal or prohibited texts filled with revelations and astonishing ideas. The result is a masterful recreation of the most powerful story imaginable. The astounding tale of our origins has probably been the source of more fascination than any other throughout human history. Beyond what the twenty biblical verses devoted to Adam and Eve say, beyond what legend tells us, what was the life of that innocent, brave and moving first couple like? What kind of world did they inhabit? Poetry and mystery meet in this surprising novel in which the first man and woman, disconcerted by their punishment, eventually come to discover themselves and their surroundings, the power of granting life, the cruelty of killing in order to survive, and the drama of love and jealousy involving their sons and the latter’s twin sisters. |
| FELTRINELLI acquires the Italian rights of El infinito en la palma de la mano. |
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| Ranking books in Chile |
| El Mercurio |
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