Writing should be about
confronting issues to provoke change, said Israel's David Grossman to Nobel
Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa at the FIL in Guadalajara.
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Rounding up the week's web buzz,
Porter Anderson looks at the the drone-high perspective needed to understand
Amazon beyond its impact on books and publishing.
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More News from PP:
"The West [looks] at multilingualism as a
problem to be tackled, while for India it has been a vital source of creative
abundance," writes K. Satchidanandan.
A new state-sanctioned Literary
Assembly will replace the Soviet-era Union of Writers, and Vladimir Putin has
declared 2015 a Year of Literature in Russia.
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From the Archives:
Exchange rate swings and the
expectation of lower GDP growth have shaken businesses, including publishing.
But foreign investors remain optimistic in Brazil’s potential.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Writing is "Facing Up to Reality," say Grossman, Vargas Llosa
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