Hindustan Times
When it was announced that Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller had won the Nobel Prize for literature this year, I had two immediate reactions: a) the by-now-annual stab of resentment that the blokes in Stockholm have – again – not given Philip Roth the nod; and b) oh, dear, I am such an ignorant git, I haven’t read a single one of Muller’s. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Doris Lessing, Herta Müller, JM coetzee, New York Times, nobel prize, Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller, VS Naipaul
So here we are with the most hotly debated annual shortlist in the English-speaking books world – the final six books vying for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
What has it boiled down to?
Summerland by JM Coetzee
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Coetzee, Colm Toibin, English-speaking books, Hilary Mantel, JM coetzee, Man Booker Prize 2009, Simon Mawer
I have just finished reading Alan Bennett’s incredibly funny novella, The Uncommon Reader (read a review here), which describes what happens when the Queen suddenly becomes passionately devoted to reading. In Bennett’s best style, it is as much a wicked comedy of manners as an inspiring delineation of the pleasures of reading, of why we do, and what might come of it. Read more
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Alan Bennett, anne fadiman, Books on books, JM coetzee, Martin Amis, Milan Kundera, Virginia woolf
