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| Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father in novel President Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel, the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive ... rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
Portobello Books signs up Herta Müller's new novel Independent publisher sees off competition in fierce auction for rights to Nobel winnerNobel laureate Herta Müller's new novel Atemschaukel, which follows the story of a German-Romanian teenager deported to a Ukrainian labour camp, will be published in the UK next year after independent press Portobello Books fought off five other publishers to acquire translation rights.Associate publisher Tasja Dorkofikis said she had been negotiating with Müller's German publisher Hanser before the author was named winner of the Nobel last month, only for the win to provoke a multi-publisher auction for her books as a flurry of interest in the German novelist kicked off.She has now bought UK rights in Atemschaukel, Müller's 1992 novel Der Fuchs War Damals Schon Der Jäger (The Fox Was the Hunter Even Then) and a selection of essays, as well as an as-yet-unwritten future title – potentially a memoir - by the author."We had a very long, protracted discussion with Hanser about buying this book [Atemschaukel, or Everything I Possess I Carry With Me] and a new book. It was all pre-Nobel," said Dorkofikis. "Then she won, so things changed a bit – many others stepped into the negotiations, but we held out ... There were five other publishers involved, auctions all over Europe – in Italy 10 publishers were involved."Müller's second new full length title, Dorkofikis said, "could be a memoir or a novel". The author's novels already draw extensively from her own life, her oppression under Ceausescu's Securitate and her subsequent exile in Berlin, where she now lives. Portobello Books hopes to publish Atemschaukel next September.Dorkofikis praised Müller's "masterful, poetic and precise" writing, which "without a word out of place ... truly illuminates and explains the human condition [and] forces readers to look at the dark and complicated realities of European history".The author was praised by Nobel judges for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose".Herta MüllerNobel prize for literaturePublishingAlison Floodguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds feeds.guardian.co.uk |
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Robin Wood, Film Critic Who Wrote on Hitchcock, Dies at 78 Mr. Wood was a film critic who published the first serious work in English on Alfred Hitchcock. feeds.nytimes.com |
Mother who inspired book 'The Color of Water' dies Ruth McBride Jordan, whose life story was celebrated by her son in a best-selling book, The Color of Water, has died. She was ... rssfeeds.usatoday.com |