From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Epa Nobel Literature Laureate 2011 Tomas Tranströmer smiles during a news conference in his Stockholm home.
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was announced this morning. His latest book of poems, “The Sorrow Gondola,” was published last year in a bilingual edition by Green Integer Books, translated by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl.
Tranströmer, 80 years old, wrote “The Sorrow Gondola” after he suffered a stroke in 1990, which left him largely unable to speak. The poetry...
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was announced this morning. His latest book of poems, “The Sorrow Gondola,” was published last year in a bilingual edition by Green Integer Books, translated by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl.
Tranströmer, 80 years old, wrote “The Sorrow Gondola” after he suffered a stroke in 1990, which left him largely unable to speak. The poetry...
- 10/6/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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