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Frank O’Connor short story award shortlist

June 1, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Frank O’Connor Award Shortlist

Joyce Carol Oates – Black Dahlia & White Rose

Peter Stamm – We’re Flying

Claire Vaye Watkins – Battleborn

Tamas Dobozy – Siege 13

Deborah Levy – Black Vodka

David Constantine – Tea At The Midland

Worth €25,000, the Frank O’Connor is the world’s richest award for a single short-story collection, and has been won by some of the biggest names in international literature, from Haruki Murakami to Nathan Englander and Edna O’Brien. This year judges chose a shortlist of six titles from 78 longlisted books, with writers including George Saunders, Junot Díaz, Molly Ringwald, Emma Donoghue and former winner Ron Rash all missing out.

Instead, the panel went for Oates’s Black Dahlia & White Rose, which includes a story about a friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Short, and Swiss writer Stamm, a finalist for this year’s Man Booker International prize, for We’re Flying.

Oates’s fellow American Claire Vaye Watkins was selected for Battleborn, set in her home state of Nevada, and Canadian Tamas Dobozy for Siege 13, a series of linked stories alternating between second world war Hungary and a community of Hungarian émigrés in the contemporary west.

Britain’s contenders are Levy, shortlisted for the Booker last year and this time picked for her collection Black Vodka, which includes a story in which a hunchbacked man has a date with his perfect girl, and Constantine, chosen for Tea at the Midland, a collection which the Guardian called “masterful … pregnant with fluctuating interpretations and concealed motives”.

via Frank O’Connor short story award pits UK authors against international stars | Books | guardian.co.uk.

The winner will be announced in the first week of July, with the award to be presented in September at the culmination of the Cork International short story festival.

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Those who appreciate short stories would so well to check out this collection of stories by Caroline England

Watching Horsepats Feed The Roses – Caroline England [ACHUKAbooks]

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: awards, collection, Frank O'Connor, prizes, short, short stories

Michael Grant: ‘Super speed would be the most bad ass superpower’

May 31, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Michael Grant

From a Guardian Children’s Books site interview – full piece recommended

Where’s your favourite place to write?

I always like to work outside and our house has two outdoor decks: a lower one, which I don’t use, but the upper one is open to the sky and I’ve got my hammock out there and my rocking chair. It looks out over San Francisco Bay and its up on a hill so I can see San Francisco and I can see Alcatraz and I see the ships going by and the sail boats and all that kind of stuff. So that’s my number one place to work. But when its too cold, I drive my car over to what’s called the Marin Headlands and I’ll stop in the pull out where all the tourists come to take pictures and I’ll type in my car. I also work in coffee shops sometimes and I work in bars sometimes and restaurants.

via Michael Grant: ‘Super speed would be the most bad ass superpower’ | Children’s books | guardian.co.uk.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Applegate, BZRK, characters, Gone, interview, Michael Grant, novelist, writing, YA

Sony A99 Review

May 30, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

An in-depth review of the Sony a99 camera, by Ken Rockwell

camera

Most of what makes the A99 good or bad stems from the basic design of the A99 as a mirrorless camera. It just happens to be styled — and marketed — as if it were a DSLR, but it’s not.

Because it’s not a DSLR it took me a couple of weeks to learn it well, and once I did, I love it!

http://www.kenrockwell.com/sony/a99.htm

Filed Under: Blog, Photography/Art Tagged With: alpha, camera, DSLR, mirrolrless, review, sony

Amazon Publishing

May 29, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Amazon has launched a dedicated publishing website…

http://www.apub.com/

Amazon publishing

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Amazon, publishing

The Penguin Book Truck Will Debut At Book Expo New York

May 29, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

booktruck

Beginning with this weekend’s Book Expo America in New York at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, THE PENGUIN BOOK TRUCK AND PUSHCART will be making their way to book-related events, festivals, and more, stocked with books from all Penguin Group imprints. Offering readers choices on the go from a wide selection of titles by authors ranging from Patricia Cornwell to John Green, Elizabeth Gilbert to Khaled Hosseini, Nate Silver to Sylvia Day, as well as Penguin Classics. Be on the lookout for the Penguin Book Truck at locations near you!

Inspired by the design of the classic New York City hot dog cart, the Penguin Book Pushcart will be transported by the Penguin Book Truck to various locations including bookstores, parks, beaches, sidewalks in shopping districts, summer theaters, and green markets.

Penguin Truck – Penguin Group (USA).

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: America, books, food, Penguin, truck Expo

The future of children’s books – a Highland and Islands event

May 29, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Kate Wilson

WRITERS in the Highlands and Islands have a unique opportunity to gain vital insights and information on the latest trends in children’s publishing and what publishers are currently looking for, at two events in Inverness hosted by two of the industry’s leading figures.

Kate Wilson, managing director of highly innovative and original children’s publisher Nosy Crow, and Kathryn Ross of Scotland’s leading literary agency for children’s authors Fraser Ross Associates, will lead the sessions on Wednesday 5th June at the Mercure Hotel, Inverness.

via The future of children’s book – a unique opportunity for Highland and Islands authors – Lifestyle & Leisure – Stornoway Gazette.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Children Tagged With: event, Highlands, industry, Kate Wilson, Nosy Crow, publishing, Scotland, trends

May 28, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Hand Art front cover lo res

In recognition of a commitment to bringing exciting and original books from around the world to the UK b small publishing have been awarded a publishing grant from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

The grant has been awarded in support of a new title – Creative Hand Art – due for publication in August this year.

As part of their autumn programme for 2013, b small will be publishing activity books from  France, Chile and Korea. This is a new direction for the independent children’s publisher intended to complement their existing and continuing commitment to foreign language publishing, with a focus on culturally diverse activity books.

“This grant is a reassuring vote of confidence in our work and we’re extremely proud to be collaborating with LTI Korea. Our forward programme is made up of a healthy mix of foreign and home-grown titles, all of which embraces the idea that activity books can be artistic and inspiring whilst remaining fun and affordable.” – Sam Hutchinson, Director

https://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/677/

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: activity, foreign, grant, Korea, translation, world

Guardian childrens fiction prize 2013 longlist in pictures

May 26, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

There are eight books longlisted for the 2013 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Follow the link for a Guardian Gallery of the book jackets with descriptions…

• The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas by David Almond, Walker Books
• After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross, Oxford University Press
• Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner, Hot Key Books
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Puffin Books
• Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell, Faber and Faber
• Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead, Andersen Press
• The Wall by William Sutcliffe, Bloomsbury Publishing
• A World Between Us by Lydia Syson, Hot Key Books

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2013/may/25/guardian-childrens-fiction-prize-2013-longlist

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: awards, fiction, Guardian, prizes

Posy Simmonds’s sketchbook

May 25, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

An 8-slide Guardian gallery

posy

Cartoonist Posy Simmonds has been keeping sketchbooks since she began her weekly Guardian strip in the 70s. Here she talks us through some of her pages, and explains why Princess Diana had exactly the come-hither eyes she was looking for

via Posy Simmonds’s sketchbook | Books | guardian.co.uk.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Bushey, gallery, illustration Posy Simmonds, pen, pencil, sketchbooks, sketches

The Nikon D3s Can Survive Getting Wet, Muddy, Frozen, Dropped, and Burned

May 24, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Nikon D3 Endurance Test

Ruggedness is often a characteristic that’s touted in new camera announcements, but exactly how rugged are flagship DSLRs? French Nikon photographer site Pixelistes recently decided to find out by torture testing a Nikon D3s.

via The Nikon D3s Can Survive Getting Wet, Muddy, Frozen, Dropped, and Burned.

Filed Under: Blog, Photography/Art Tagged With: camera, DSLR, Nikon, photography, ruggedness, test

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