Getting acquainted with Müller’s fiction
The opening of Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums makes me want to read more.
The opening of Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums makes me want to read more.
Writer and critic Jürgen Fauth, co-creator of literary site Fictionaut, explains why anyone can sign up & publish fiction there.
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 . . .