"Reading Yōko Tawada is an immensely fun & occasionally bewildering experience. SUGGESTED IN THE STARS combines a linguistic playfulness with a mind-expanding worldview...Margaret Mitsutani’s [translation] is exquisite.'
https://t.co/cPvIE1XERZ
‘A hilarious, important novel. A correct & a real one. There is something in the writing that is wild in a virtuosic way &, needless to say, hugely intelligent’
The wonderful @isabelwaidner had an early read of Nicola Barker's forthcoming #TonyInterruptor
‘Seductively gothic…[Enriquez] is at the height of her powers...This might be her most untrammelled – & certainly her most unwavering – collection yet. It’s an array of stories that will keep you in their chokehold’ @prospect_uk
If you’ve been into a bookshop lately you might have seen these three stunning new re-jackets of Nobel Prize-winner Han Kang’s books 🤍
Which one is your favourite?
#hankang#nobelprizeliterature
This is brilliant news to start the day! Nicola Barker is one of the funniest, and most creative novelists working today. I’m sure it’ll be a triumph 👇
‘Reminds us why she’s one of the best modern practitioners of the form...It is Enriquez’s great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive & full of life’
A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE
'It is Enriquez’s great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life'
@john_self on Mariana Enriquez's A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE for @ObsNewReview
https://t.co/kB1CdSiLGz
Congratulations to Han Kang, winner of the 2024 @NobelPrize in Literature!
In honour of this achievement we have lifted the paywall on her writing for Granta.
https://t.co/FwYECQAUjK
Huge congratulations to Han Kang!
Delighted for @GrantaBooks (who still publish her very best book).
If you've never read her, THE VEGETARIAN is THE book to start with!
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
'Now the novel has been translated and it’s exciting to think that new readers will meet the people who live in that world. For me, it is nothing short of a very precious but strange miracle.' SAYAKA MURATA
Publishing this gem next spring.
https://t.co/UqoBiCcYsx
Jonathan Reynolds and two senior staff went to Glastonbury as guests of YouTube. Until then, Labour was promising to increase the digital service tax from 2% to 10%. Literally the day after the festival, it emerged that Reynolds had ditched the policy. https://t.co/LaYgCyoYb5
Read extracts from Rachael Allen's God Complex in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025.
@r_vallen’s God Complex (published by @faberbooks) is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
https://t.co/nlXzCrRJnP
‘Brilliant…[Mariana] Enriquez illuminates both the night & the ghosts, & she rejects her characters’ paralysis. She refuses silence & crafts stories so searing they cannot be buried or ignored’ New York Times
A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE out this week!