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...winning one of the $1,000 prizes to awarded next on Nov. 1, and at the end of the year competing for the $250,000 grand prize for best story of 2008. That's less than the Nobel Prize winner for Literature - for which this year's laureate, French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, will pick up a little under $1,500,000 - but considerably more than the Pulitzer purse of $10,000. Says Thompson, "We are confident the FieldReport prize for experiential writing is the biggest single-story prize out there." What's more, he says...
...Chinese writer Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, remain unfulfilled. So what is an ambitious Chinese writer who desires to reach an international audience to do? The 35-year-old Xiaolu Guo has taken matters into her own hands by writing in English. As a novelist who is equally at home as a filmmaker, and a nomad who splits her time between Beijing, London and Paris, Guo underscores her gutsy insistence that the value of a story isn't contained within geographic, linguistic or literary borders by perpetually crossing them...
...time Oprah Winfrey announced publicly on Sept. 19 that her club's newest title would be The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, a book about a mute boy and his dogs by a first-time novelist - albeit a critical darling - its publisher had already ordered 750,000 "Oprah versions" from the printers. Boxes of these freshly minted tomes, with the Oprah's Book Club seal affixed to the covers - and a unique ISBN number to ensure accurate tracking of sales - were already on their way to bookstores across the country. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by software designer David Wroblewski, debuted...
...Since her club debuted in 1996, Winfrey - who personally chooses which books to endorse and does not financially benefit - has invited 66 titles into her club. Introducing the first book, The Deep End of the Ocean by first-time novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard, Winfrey told her audience, "When I was growing up, books were my friends. When I didn't have friends, I had books. And one of the greatest pleasures I have right now in life is to be reading a really good book and to know I have a really, really good book after that book to read." Publishers...
...Kent commissioned journalist Victoria Brittain and novelist Gillian Slovo to create a verbatim play about British detainees at Guantánamo Bay based on interviews with released detainees, families of detainees and their lawyers. Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' opened to wide acclaim, transferred to the West End and was also produced in New York City. Last spring a reading was staged for members of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill. "What Nick is about is, 'What can we be doing next?'" says Tricycle general manager Mary Lauder. "'What should we be tackling? What can we change...