Well I ve had a busy non blogging week spent a lovely day at skegness with two of the people I support ,we were lucky and got a nice sunny day .It has been a quiet week for book news .
BOOK NEWS –
The nobel prizes is announced on the 7th october .I did a post wondering who was going to win ,have since seen other and spoke to people ,my feeling is a joint Amos Oz /Elias Khoury award would be a great idea .Also Juan Goytisolo s a writer that may deserve it the well known Spanish writer is considered one of the best from Spain in twentieth century .What are your feelings ? would you like some one realtively unkown in the english to win like recent years ?
Granta announced a list of writers in Spanish to read ,like there english list of writers to watch ,A lot of the names are new to me ,this seems like a great entry level to the next genration of writers from spain and latin america .
NDRÉS BARBA – Spain, b. 1975
OLIVERIO COELHO – Argentina, b. 1977
ANDRÉS RESSIA COLINO – Uruguay, b. 1977
FEDERICO FALCO – Argentina, b. 1977
PABLO GUTIÉRREZ – Spain, b. 1978
RODRIGO HASBÚN – Bolivia, b. 1981
SÒNIA HERNÁNDEZ – Spain, b. 1976
CARLOS LABBÉ – Chile, b. 1977
JAVIER MONTES – Spain, b. 1976
ELVIRA NAVARRO – Spain, b. 1978
MATÍAS NÉSPOLO – Argentina, b. 1975
ANDRÉS NEUMAN – Argentina, b. 1977
ALBERTO OLMOS – Spain, b. 1975
POLA OLOIXARAC – Argentina, b. 1977
ANTONIO ORTUÑO – Mexico, b. 1976
PATRICIO PRON – Argentina, b. 1975
LUCÍA PUENZO – Argentina, b. 1976
SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO – Peru, b. 1975
ANDRÉS FELIPE SOLANO – Colombia, b. 1977
SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN – Argentina, b. 1978
CARLOS YUSHIMITO – Peru, b. 1977
ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA – Chile, b. 1975
there is a spanish blog as well,of the writers only 3 have been translated so far in to English .
of the writers it apears
I have a Goytisolo book somewhere called ‘A Cock-eyed Comedy.’ I’ve read a book each by Oz & Khoury; both left me cold. Maybe not their best work.
I hope César Aira got it. Even though he has only a handful of books (6) translated. The publicity will allow the remaining dozens untranslated to be finally brought out.
aira would be good ,I ve yet to read him as my libray has none of his in stock ,so need to buy some when I see them ,all the best stu
Stu, here is the thing about the Nobel. I don’t even care any more. So mired down in ridiculous politics. But I do appreciate a lesser known (at least lesser known in the English speaking world) author winning as it does give me a push to read more broadly. Like this great list you feature here does today. Thanks.
yes the granta list is great be keeping a eye out for the writers on it as the filter through to english ,all the best stu
I’d go for the Iranian author of Censoring and Iranian Love Story – Shahriar Mandanipour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahriyar_Mandanipour
yes be a good winner to ,have wait and see on thurs ,all the best stu