April 29, 2006

Taking Crime Fiction Seriously - PEN World Voices Festival

Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin's latest Erast Fandorin mystery, The Death of Achilles, is set in 1882 and finds the detective in Moscow investigating the death of a national hero.


Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell writes the Kurt Wallander series set in Sweeden. The tenth book in the series, Before the Frost , takes a turn from his usual character of Kurt Wallander and instead features his daughter Linda.


Lawrence Venuti
Lawrence Venuti, translator. His translations include the work of Massimo Carlotto. Carlotto is often called the master of Mediterranean noir. His latest is The Goodbye Kiss.


Panel description:
How do writers of crime fiction manage to combine literary prowess with white-knuckle reading? Why do people love to read crime novels? Authors reflect on their key influences and the role this genre plays in the collective imagination.


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April 28, 2006

The remaining pictures from Faith & Reason: Writers Speak, held Wednesday April 26

Gioconda Belli
Gioconda Belli is from Nicaragua. Her memoir The Country Under My Skin was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2003.


Roberto Calasso
Roberto Calasso's work includes The Forty-Nine Steps


Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury was awarded the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun


Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor at Princeton University. His writings on contemporary poetry and music can be found in Blues Notes


Ayu Utami
Ayu Utami's first novel Saman was awarded the Best Novel from Dewan Kesenian Jakarta in 1998.

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April 27, 2006

More pictures from the PEN World Voices Festival

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson wrote her first novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit at age 23.


Duong Thu Huong'

Duong Thu Huong's work, including No Man's Land, have been translated into more than ten languages.


Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her novel Beloved won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988.


Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith's On Beauty was nominated for a Booker Prize



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Chinua Achebe at PEN World Voices

Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe read from his first novel Things Fall Apart. Published in the late 50's it depicts life in Nigeria before and after colonialism.

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Martin Amis at the PEN World Voices Festival

Martin Amis
Martin Amis' 1991 novel Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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Salman Rushdie at PEN World Voices Festival

Salman Rushdie
You are likely very familiar with Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. His upcoming book Shalimar the Clown, will be published in October 2006.

There were a lot of fantastic writers at this event. I'll put the rest of them up later in the week. Gotta rest up for the Edgars ;-)

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