Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature.
The Swedish Academy said it’s honoring the 74-year-old author “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”
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Cory Doctorow, of BoingBoing, recommends Steven Johnson’s new book Where good ideas come from
For Johnson, the secret lies in the “thin air” — the unplumbed space we credit for the “sparks of brilliance” and “happy accidents” that create new connections, strategies and thoughts. And for Johnson, this thin air is anything but: rather, it is a relatively predictable outcome arising from certain pre-conditions.
…Johnson makes a convincing case that innovation is fractal.
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Belgium: Peter Terrin, De Bewaker (The Guard)
Cyprus: Myrto Azina Chronides, To Peirama (The Experiment)
Denmark: Adda Djørup, Den mindste modstand (The least resistance)
Estonia: Tiit Aleksejev, Palveränd (The Pilgrimage)
Finland: Riku Korhonen , Lääkäriromaani (Doctor Novel)
Germany: Iris Hanika, Das Eigentliche (The Bottom Line)
Luxembourg: Jean Back, Amateur
Romania: Răzvan Rădulescu, Teodosie cel Mic (Theodosius the Small)
Slovenia: Nataša Kramberger, Nebesa v robidah: roman v zgodbah (Heaven in a blackberry bush: novel in stories)
Spain: Raquel MartÃnez-Gómez, Sombras de unicornio (Shadows of the unicorn)
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Goce Smilevski, СеÑтрата на Зигмунд Фројд (Sigmund Freud’s sister)
The [EU Prize for Literature], supported through the EU Culture programme, aims to draw attention to new talents and to promote the publication of their books in different countries, as well as celebrating European cultural diversity.
So, please help yourself to some European literature.
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From the press release…
The 2010 5 Under 35 Honorees are:
Selected by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, National Book Award Fiction Finalist for
Madeleine Is Sleeping, 2004
Selected by Scott Spencer, Fiction Finalist for A Ship Made of Paper, 2003; Fiction Finalist for Endless Love, 1980 and 1981
Selected by Colum McCann, Fiction Winner for Let the Great World Spin, 2009
Selected by Jayne Anne Phillips, Fiction Finalist for Lark and Termite, 2009
Selected by Kate Walbert, Fiction Finalist for Our Kind, 2004
Did you know that the new edition (16th ed., 2010) of The Chicago Manual of Style contains “readable new fonts: FF Tisa, originally designed to be a magazine font, [as] the main text, while Whitney is used for inline examples of grammar”?
Well, now you do.