He became famous after writing his novel “Praise of Hatred,” which was translated into six languages. It attracted attention and was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in its first session in 2008. In 2013, his novel “No Knives in the Kitchens of This City” won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for the Novel, … Read more
“We do not want to have in our collections the slightest object that came to us illegally,” committed Max Hollein, head since 2018 of one of the largest museums in the world. The director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Met) promised Thursday to return more works of art to countries victims … Read more
The two writers who won the prestigious Goncourt Prize, Amin Maalouf and Jean-Christophe Ruffin, are competing to lead the French Academy, the institution that has been keen on the grammar of the French language since its founding in the seventeenth century. Voting is scheduled to take place Thursday afternoon on the name who will succeed … Read more
Spyros Giannaras, after four collections of short stories, tackles the long form for the first time by writing the novel “With a stitched heel” I will begin with a quote – which always moves me and which gives me an answer to the perennial question “what is literature” – by the great Anna Akhmatova: “In … Read more
CPNB Foundation The Chabot family NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 15:02 The Book Week Gift 2024 is not written by one author, but by an entire family. All members of the Chabot family – father and mother Bart and Yolanda and the four sons Sebastiaan, Maurits, Splinter and Storm – contribute. This was announced by the Collective Propaganda … Read more
CRITICISM – The writer takes up certain characters from his previous novels, gives them a past and recapitulates an entire era. That of the rowdy Big Apple of the “seventies”. This shows his naivety. In 1976, Paul Schwartzman, nicknamed Pablo, dreamed of writing a screenplay about Cicero. In the meantime, he writes porn film reviews … Read more
Dear Aldo, 24 Slams. Novak Djokovic played an extraordinary US Open final. Dominating, knowing how to suffer in the 2nd set and then spreading in the 3rd set. 6-3 7-6 6-3 to Daniil Medvedev. Reached Margaret Court, who won her 24th in Ny in 1973. Infinite champion! The Serbian “hammer”, however, should have avoided making … Read more
You don’t know anything about me by Julie Héraclès won the Prize for best first novel. The book returns to the Purge symbolized by a photo by Robert Capa showing a woman branded for having collaborated with the Germans. «Writing about her has never been a way of clearing her customs, but, perhaps, of making … Read more
Julie Hrudová Prize winner Karimi surrounded by two members of the jury NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 21:01 Writer Forugh Karimi has won the Hebban Debut Prize this year with her novel Mahipar’s mothers. Her book was chosen by a professional jury over four other literary debuts that had been nominated. Karimi was awarded the prize tonight during … Read more
JRR Tolkien in an archive photo. | Photo: Alamy / Profimedia.cz creator Tolkien, who lived from 1892 to 1973, had many predecessors: from the novels of William Morris, the first to be set in a completely fictional fantasy world, to the Conan stories from the pen of Robert E. Howard. However, none have been as … Read more