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Newly-announced Nobel Laureate Herta Müller believes she is still under surveillance in her native Romania. (Swedish TV interview.)
Newly-announced Nobel Laureate Herta Müller believes she is still under surveillance in her native Romania. (Swedish TV interview.)
“Two of you go to the Booker dinner — the one who is going to win and the one who is going to lose” — Hilary Mantel.
Speaking of Nazis in South America, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s first novel, The Informers, is set in 1990s Bogotá, but looks back to the city’s World War II history as a son tries to unravel the lies and omissions his father built their lives around. Translator Anne McLean “exchanged 200 e-mails” with the author in the course of translating . . .
Europa Editions, one of the most interesting and beautifully curated publishers of works in translation, has just put out Boualem Sansal’s The German Mujahid, a novel inspired by an Algerian mayor who was a former SS officer. In an evocative review at Words Without Borders, Emma Garman calls Sansai “a novelist at the absolute height of his powers.” It’s common . . .