Toni Morrison has been awarded the Saul Bellow Prize for American Fiction 2016, part of the 2016 PEN America awards, recognising “her enduring command of her art”. Morrison has previously won the The Pulitzer Prize for Beloved and, in 1993, the Nobel Prize in Literature. The PEN judges citation said her works have “changed the landscape…
Review: Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Ayana Mathis’s debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, has been widely received with almost devotional rapture anointed by Oprah Winfrey as a selection for her Book Club 2.0. The book opens with a teenage Hattie Shepherd, married to August, bursting with joy and optimism after the birth of twins…
Haruki Murakami favourite in Nobel Prize race
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has emerged as favourite in the 2012 race to the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature with the bookies Ladbrokes quoting odds of 10/1. Not far behind, at 12/1, are Chinese author Mo Yan (actually a pen name for renowned dissident author Guan Moye, it translates as Don’t Speak)…