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...AWARDED. TO YANN MARTEL, 39, Spanish-born Canadian novelist; the newly renamed Man Booker Prize and its purse of $75,000 for Life of Pi, a fable about a young boy shipwrecked for a year with a Bengal tiger; in London. Organizers recently suggested that American writers might be nominated for the award as soon as 2004; currently, only writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth are eligible...
...hardly surprising that Hungarian novelist Imre Kertesz, 72, is not well known in the U.S.: only two of his books have been translated into English. But he is also somewhat of a stranger in his native country. His low profile may be in part because of the dense themes in his writing. Sent to Auschwitz at age 14 in 1944, Kertesz was transferred to, and subsequently liberated from, Buchenwald in 1945. He returned to Hungary only to endure communist rule for four decades. In his novels and essays he revisits the Holocaust, pondering, in the words of the Nobel Committee...
...Darkness was first published, Joseph Conrad's haunting novella continues to cast an immense shadow. His short masterpiece has spawned an endless stream of literary guides, dramatizations, even CDs such as Heart of Darkness by the aptly named Conrad Herwig Quintet. So it's no surprise to find novelist Daniel Mason also falling under Conrad's intoxicating spell. Mason's debut novel The Piano Tuner features an array of elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous journey into the remote reaches...
...capital of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny West African nation of fewer than 500,000 people, consisted of little more than some moldering Spanish colonial buildings, a few palm-lined plazas and the tightly packed shanty towns which encircle most African settlements. Its one claim to fame was that novelist Frederick Forsyth lived there while he wrote his military thriller The Dogs of War. But over the past three years, Malabo has been transformed. Office buildings have shot up, hotels and banks have opened, and foreigners - once a novelty in Malabo - now cram the town's fancy new restaurants. There...
...Peyran, and their two children, who speak French with a Provençal twang. He feels right at home in Europe where, he says, gifted people aren't pigeonholed. America has experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form to another," Malkovich says. The theme...