Word: novelists
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...Rodrik said that, in addition to being a talented economist, Velasco is a gifted novelist. Velasco has published two Spanish-language novels—“Vox Populi,” in 1995, and “Lugares Comunes...
DROPPED. Charges against ORHAN PAMUK, 53, popular Turkish novelist who could have faced up to three years in prison had he been convicted of denigrating Turkey's national identity by discussing in a newspaper interview the 1915 massacre of more than 1 million Armenians by the Turks; by a court in Istanbul. The World War I killings are controversial in Turkey, which denies that Ottoman forces committed genocide. Pamuk's case was much watched because Turkey has come under scrutiny from the E.U.--which it is applying to join--over whether it adequately protects civil liberties...
...good novelist makes us look at everyday subjects in new ways, then Jones is an excellent one, and Dreams takes flight, skipping from descriptions of sound waves to Cellophane with bravura flair. But it is the invention of the Lumiere brothers that most delights the author and her characters. Whether transmitted via Greta Garbo's laugh or screen Delilah Hedy Lamarr (who we learn helped patent a frequency-hopping radio-controlled torpedo during WW II), cinema's light becomes the counterpoint to the private sorrows of Mr. Sakamoto and his confidante. The novelist says her love of movies began...
...premier novelist of the American West, Larry McMurtry, 69, has won a Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove and seen film adaptations of his work--including Hud, The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment--earn 26 Oscar nominations. But Brokeback Mountain was another writer's story, and, as McMurtry tells Josh Tyrangiel, he almost didn't read...
...true you said, "I don't read short fiction"? I've never been able to read short fiction, and I've never been able to write it. It's a blank in my intellectual life, and I don't know why. I guess I'm naturally a novelist. I want a few hundred pages to make my statement. But that resistance only lasted a minute or so. I read it, and we wrote Annie Proulx our letter asking if we could option it an hour later...