Comments on: Man Booker International

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By: Alisia

Alisia — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:29:48 +0000

I’m glad to see that Achebe won, although he was in the company of other great authors. It’s been a big month for Nigerian authors!

By: LK

LK — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:34:54 +0000

Thank you for the Spanish reads! I will check them out.

By: Finian

Finian — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:08:29 +0000

Considering it is a prize from an English speaking country, and it even gives a loophole if it is widely translated in other languages aside from English, it is in no way discriminatory. When the Cervantes Prize starts to get awarded to English books, let me know.

By: Dewey

Dewey — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:48:22 +0000

I never knew the exact criteria for the Man Booker prize. That last requirement seems a little discriminatory to me, too.

By: booktraveller

booktraveller — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:14:38 +0000

If you haven’t read it, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is very good. Otherwise, I’d probably go for authors like Javier Marias or any of these authors listed here http://users.adelphia.net/~fvila/Spain/contemporary.htm (especially Juan Goytisolo and Arturo Perez-Reverte, I’ve heard excellent things about both of them). Also, although he is dead and perhaps not as modern as the authors listed above, Federico Garcia Lorca’s works are very worth looking at.

By: LK

LK — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:45:38 +0000

By the way, Book Traveller, since I am going to Spain in November, I am eager to read some literature by current Spanish authors. Any recommendations?

(Think I’ll do a post trawl on this…)

By: LK

LK — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:43:43 +0000

I agree with you. However, I have had that book on my shelves for years without cracking the spine.

Oh, I can hear the words echo, “Get cracking!”