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Petterson, a Norwegian writer, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award last year for his novel Out Stealing Horses, as well as an even more elusive prize for a work in translation: critical acclaim in the U.S. The novel's success was all the more surprising given the quiet nature of Petterson's storytelling. His characters live mostly inside their heads; outside, they can be found in small villages in Scandinavia, drinking, chopping wood, fighting, reading, remembering. It's hardly the stuff of flashy, cosmopolitan fiction-without-borders...
Following atrocious EMMY AWARDS hosted by reality-show judges, Emmys create reality-show-host award...
University President Drew G. Faust’s latest civil war book was named a finalist yesterday for the 2008 National Book Award in non-fiction. “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” is one of five books nominated in that category by the National Book Foundation, the non-profit literary foundation that gives out the awards. The winner will be announced next month in New York City. Faust’s sixth book takes on how Americans managed and understood death during the Civil War, her area of scholarly expertise. Published...
...nonplussed." To Mundy, this was not just a literary triumph but a commercial one. He reckons the book could now sell as many as a million copies worldwide, including 500,000 in the U.K. alone. Such is the financial power of the Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award...
Eric M. Leibensperger, a graduate student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was recently awarded one of the EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellowships. The award will help fund his research, which focuses on two main areas: the effect of climate change on air quality in the United States and the effect of U.S. aerosols on the global climate...