This Week in Writing
Writer Michel Faber, author of The Crimson Petal and the White, has
announced The Book of Strange New Things, will
not only be his new but also his last novel to write and publish.
Ali Mazrui, scholar and author of The Africans: A Triple Heritage passedaway on Oct. 12th at 81 years old.
Meshack Asare is the 2015 recipient of the
NSK Neustadt Prize granted by World Literature Today, a magazine of the
University of Oklahoma, making him the frist African to win the award for
Children’s Literature.
Essayist, poet and translator Michael
Hofmann will host a live Q&A on Thursday Oct. 30th. Michael
Hoffman has translated around 70 books from German to English, including
Kafka’s multiple work, aside from Joseph Roth, Patrick Suskind and more,
winning the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and English Arts Council grant.
Martha
Weinman Lear, writer of medical memoir Heartsounds, comes out
with a rueful epilogue about her own recent challenges with heart disease, Echoes
of Heartsounds.
-Zalma Aguirre