The lead-in to tonight’s National Book Awards has been awfully quiet, hasn’t it? Yesterday novelist M.G. Vassanji won Canada’s Governor General’s award for his memoir A PLACE WITHIN, as Kate Pullinger was the surprise winner of the fiction prize for THE MISTRESS OF NOTHING. The Man Asian Literary prize went to bestselling author in China Su Tong’s political fable THE BOAT TO REDEMPTION. The award goes to a work not yet published English, and is designed to bring “exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary community.” The Guardian says Howard Goldblatt–who also translated the 2007 winner, […]
