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Book review: A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden
09 May 2024 23:28 GMT
… dose of magical realism (think Umberto Eco meets Mikhail Bulgakov) by … ways, it is a book of the head more than … read a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist without reference to the …
Eugene Vodolazkin, author
Lisa C. Hayden, translator
Plough Publishing £19.99 …
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Iranian author Marjane Satrapi wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias prize
02 May 2024 19:51 GMT
… , one of the best graphic novels ever published.”
“Satrapi is a symbol … on her career as an author, film director and painter.
Her … feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Italian novelist Umberto Eco and Japanese video game designer …
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Unraveling secrets: Bibliomystery books that are worth reading"
02 May 2024 07:35 GMT
… of the Rose by Umberto Eco is a murder mystery … bibliomystery set in the charming bookshops of Edinburgh.
Delaney Nichols, … ;The Cracked Spine" bookstore.
Her ordinary life quickly turns … pages of rare, antique books.
';The Secret History…
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Based on C.J. Sansom's novel, 'Shardlake' sets a murder mystery in Tudor England
30 Apr 2024 21:07 GMT
… of a series of “Shardlake” novels by C.J. Sansom, who … century monk-detective, and also Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the …
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Author of graphic novel 'Persepolis' wins top Spanish prize
30 Apr 2024 14:07 GMT
… on her career as an author, film director and painter.
Her … feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Italian novelist Umberto Eco and Japanese video game designer …
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'Persepolis' author Satrapi wins top Spanish prize
30 Apr 2024 13:28 GMT
… artist Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel Persepolis tells the story of … on her career as an author, film director and painter. Her … feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Italian novelist Umberto Eco and Japanese video game designer …
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'Persepolis' author wins top Spanish prize
30 Apr 2024 12:50 GMT
… artist Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel "Persepolis" tells the … on her career as an author, film director and painter.
Her … feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Italian novelist Umberto Eco and Japanese video game designer …
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CJ Sansom’s Shardlake novels changed the literary world
29 Apr 2024 14:57 GMT
… a killer stumbled into our bookshops for the first time and … crime novels before Shardlake. Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, published in … . Ellis Peters’s series of novels about the monastic sleuth Brother …
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Literary quarantine: National Library of France removes books believed to be laced with arsenic
29 Apr 2024 12:52 GMT
… Rose, based on Umberto Eco’s historical mystery novel of the same … dangerous.
The Poison Book Project says books laced with the … over possible arsenic contamination.
Books from the University of … universities taking green-colored books stemming from the 19th …
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Bulgarian Colibri Publishers Receives Italy's National Translation Prize
18 Apr 2024 16:20 GMT
… s novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
The publishers explained … .
Colibri have also published books by other modern Italian … Ferrante, Dino Buzzati and Umberto Eco.
The annual National Translation … and foreign translators and publishers who have contributed …