Ekphrasis: A Conversation Between Poets & Artists: When a writer interprets a work of visual art and then creates a narrative in verse form that represents his or her reaction to that work. DEADLINE: August 15, 2010
The German book publishers’ association has awarded Israeli author and peace activist David Grossman one of Europe’s most prestigious prizes in the arts, along with a 25,000-euro endowment.
Anthony Carranza interview Nobel Prize nominee Nestor Amarilla in a two-part interview about being nominated for Literature.
Rainer Moritz, the program director at the Literaturhaus Hamburg, says literature houses in Germany are less commercially motivated . . . they are a gathering place, where authors, translators, journalists and critics can meet. Moritz is formed an umbrella organization, Literaturhaus.net, of 11 literature houses across Germany and Austria . . . an idea that is spreading throughout Europe.
Sometimes we read things other than the Internet. Especially, when those things (aka books) make us look smart and have cool cocktails in them. This summer put down your beer and get creative with your boozy, dark passenger. Drunkenly slurring with a Pabst makes you pathetic, but slurring with a gin gimlet makes you genteel.
German author Peter Wawerzinek received this year’s Ingeborg Bachmann prize, one of the most important in German literature.
“A poet,” James Dickey once said, “is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” Should memoirs of illness be held to the same standards as other writing? Or do reader and writer form a different relationship when the health crisis of one becomes the theater of the other, a relationship in which a reviewer has very little business meddling?
M. K. Kanimozhi, a Tamil poet, journalist and politician n India, believes literary works that bring in social transformation alone will transcend generations and remain popular.
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