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...literary New York, it was the equivalent of somebody's winning the state lottery. A middle-aged novelist, burdened with debts, a leaky roof and a bruised ego, suddenly found himself celebrated and rich. It was as sudden as the surprise phone call that informed William Kennedy, 56, that the MacArthur Foundation was giving him one of its "genius awards": $264,000 tax free with no strings attached...
Markov had been his country's leading novelist and playwright; he had also served a term during the Stalin years, in the Bulgarian Gulag. His prison experiences and literary skills combined to produce the scabrous picture of a nation enslaved. Yet in the eyes of the Bulgarian leadership that was not Markov's worst crime against the state. On Radio Free Europe the defector offered a description of Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov, a smiling brute on the order of Nikita Khrushchev. At a banquet the author catches the official acting like a Balkan Queen of Hearts, shouting...
DIED. Liam O'FIaherty, 88, powerful and prolific Irish novelist and short-story writer, whose tales of desperate men, failed traditions and spiritual torment (The Black Soul, The House of Gold, Famine) combined brutally modern realism and wild lyricism; in Dublin. His best-known work, The Informer (1925), was filmed three times, most notably in 1935 by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen...
Pity the genre novelist who embarks on a different course. For more than 25 years, Françoise Sagan has published brief, ironic tales of love lost or betrayed. She is a supremely confident writer, both in her resolute economy of style and in her command of the milieu she describes: the frivolous, overwrought bourgeois society where emotion can be both teased and indulged...
...Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture, of life, of picturesqueness, of brilliant color, of light and shade. There is a picture in every street and at every bazaar stall." Some 70 years later another novelist, E.M. Forster, foresaw a dreary end to the Orientalist movement. In a letter to a friend about a voyage through the Suez Canal, he wrote, "It was like sailing through the Royal Academy-a man standing by a sitting camel, followed by a picture of a camel standing by a seated...