IN THE TELERAMA ARCHIVES – The author of “The Executioner’s Song” was the rebellious conscience of the United States, his adored country but for which he forgave nothing. On January 31, he would have been 100 years old. A great opportunity to (re)read this portrait published in our columns when he died in 2007. He … Read more
JTA — Given his place in the international literary elite, it’s hard to believe that no documentary has yet been made about Jewish Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow. It is now ancient history since the broadcast, last week on PBS, of “American Masters: The Adventures of Saul Bellow”. This documentary by Israeli director Asaf Galay, … Read more
Posted Jan 8, 2023, 7:05 PMUpdated on Jan 9, 2023 at 9:22 am Originally from New England, Russell Banks was born on March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts. He grew up in the small town of Barnstead, New Hampshire, in a modest family that his plumber father abandoned when he was twelve years old. At … Read more
He continued: “Your presence honors us. [ ] You have been the first recipient of the Nobel Prize at the Académie Française since François Mauriac, and the first foreign writer to be published while alive at the prestigious Pléiade library. He has received the greatest prizes of international Hispanic literature, the Nobel Prize of course, … Read more
Taylor Swift will launch as Film director with the Searchlight Pictures studio. The award-winning singer-songwriter penned an original screenplay, which will be produced by the Oscar-winning studio behind the films. nomad land Y The Shape of Water. Other key details, such as the plot and the castingThey will be kept secret for now. For the … Read more
The famous American writer James Baldwinwho died in December 1987 and who lived almost all his life in France, wrote a month before he died in an important newspaper in Paris: “I am black, I am also gay and my face is not pretty. I am very short in stature and my physique is small; … Read more
On the centenary of his birth, we remember the writer who was the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner and a recognized defender of Human Rights. On November 16, 1922, José de Sousa Saramago was born in the small town of Azinhaga, Portugal. His peasant parents were named José de Sousa and Maria da Piedade. “José de … Read more
TOBY MELVILLE/AFP Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka (L) poses next to Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort (R) after winning the British Booker Prize for his novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”, during the Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 awards ceremony, in London, on October 17, 2022. (Photo by TOBY MELVILLE / POOL / AFP) BOOKS … Read more
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the 2022 Erasmus Prize to Israeli writer David Grossman. The theme for this year’s prize was: “Fixing a Torn World”. “No one embodies this theme better than David Grossman,” the foundation said in a statement. “In his work, he seeks to understand people from the inside and to consider … Read more
Hilary Mantel has long communed with ghosts, those in history who inhabit her novels, her Irish Catholic ancestors, the children she never had. The success of the works of the British novelist was very real. His last book, conclusion of his trilogy The counselor about the tumultuous life of Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s chief … Read more