Ismet Prcic wins 2011 LA Times Book Award

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Ismet Prcic has won the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for his novel Shards. He discusses it in this recent interview with Bookworm's Michael Silverblatt.


Greenblatt Wins 2012 Pulitzer

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Author Stephen Greenblatt has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Hear his recent conversation with Michael Silverblatt.

 

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Mario Vargas Llosa

 

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We take the occasion of the publication of Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), to air this previously unheard interview in which the great Peruvian novelist describes the effects of "El Boom" –- magic realism and its relatives -- on the literature of Latin America.

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