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“It is the novel’s capacity, at its best, to illustrate the complexity of life that is its glory, for no other literary or artistic genre can do so. The novel is a kind of vaccine against the terribles simplificateurs who are the bane, or at least a bane, of this world, the kind of people who think that they have found the key to life as Mrs Baker Eddy thought that she had found the key to the Scriptures, or Baconians think that they have found the key to Shakespeare.”
'At Least When Practised By a Master'
(Australian) Prime Minister's Literary Awards
Creative Australia has announced the winners of this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards, "the richest literary prize in the nation".
Jessica Au's many-prizes-winning Cold Enough for Snowracks up another one, winning in the fiction category; prizes were also handed out in five other categories.
I have a copy but haven't yet reviewed Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's A Shining, and at Asymptote Georgina Fooks now has a Q & A with the translator, in Casting the Spell: Damion Searls on Translating Jon Fosse's A Shining.
Well worthwhile, including for such points as:
(F)or better or for worse (mainly for worse), English is the language that matters professionally for world literature. A German publisher told me a couple of years ago that if they have a book, they can get it translated into five or six languages, but it’s not until it gets a review in the Guardian UK or in the New Yorker that they can sell it to twenty or thirty languages—and they also told me that this is increasingly the case. English really is the gateway to bigger success for every other language; it’s not going to be a worldwide, translated-everywhere success unless it goes through English first.
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