27 Mar
THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Saturday 26 May 2018, 10am Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage The longlist for this year’s international fiction prize consists of Laurent Binet, Javier Cercas, Virginie Despentes, Jenny Erpenbeck, Han Kang, Ariana Harwicz, László Krasznahorkai, Antonio Muñoz, Christoph Ransmayr, Ahmed Saadawi, Olga Tokarczuk, Wu Ming-Yi and Gabriela Ybarra. The […]
13 Mar
Taking a look at the two big prizes announced this week, Claire, Sian and Richard discuss which books they’re excited to read and discover on the Man Booker International prize for translated fiction and the Women’s prize for fiction (previously known as the Baileys prize). Then Richard sits down with Imogen Hermes Gowar, one of […]
12 Mar
Sam Leith for The Spectator “The longlist for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction – judged by a very impressive panel headed by Lisa Appignanesi and including Michael Hofmann, Hari Kunzru, Helen Oyeyemi and our own Tim Martin – is out. Special props to super-translator Frank Wynne, who has translated not one but two […]
12 Mar
Vernon Subutex 1 has been nominated for the longlist of the The Man Booker International Prize 2018. “The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2018 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world. The prize is awarded every year for […]
14 Oct
Review by Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times: ” The stage is set for what will prove one of the books of the year, if not the decade, and as it is the first volume of a trilogy and already has a cult following on France, the best advice is, simply, to read it and pass on […]
10 Oct
By Mira Kandar for the New York Times “Despentes is France’s most famous bad-girl author. A rape survivor who has worked as a prostitute and a housemaid, Despentes’ unapologetically feminist eye picks out the telling details of contemporary French society’s casual ennui and petty hypocrisies. Her “Vernon Subutex” series of novels — there are three […]
03 Oct
By Elsa Keslassy for Variety “French star Romain Duris is set to topline the TV adaptation of “Vernon Subutex,” Virginie Despentes’ bestselling novel. Canal Plus, the French pay-TV channel behind “The Returned,” has commissioned the series… The novel “Vernon Subutex” has been lauded by critics for its richly layered, dark-humored and crystalline depiction of contemporary French […]
01 Aug
Book Blast Diary “Vernon Subutex 1 is universal in its portrayal of the harshness of urban life and the evolution of Western society over the last 25 years or so. Paris has always been an international cultural crossroads where celebrities from the worlds of fashion, music, art, literature and politics converge. Not much has been […]
