Yesterday Serpent’s Tail announced that THE PASSPORT, Nobel winner Herta Mueller’s her first book in English translation, originally published by them in 1989, will be reissued October 19th as a $12.95 paperback. Macmillan tells Bloomberg that they are reprinting 5,000 hardcover copies each of the THE LAND OF GREEN PLUMS (Northwestern University Press has the paperback rights, as noted yesterday, and is reprinting 20,000 copies) and THE APPOINTMENT, along with 20,000 paperbacks of the latter. Northwestern tells Bloomberg they are also negotiating to reprint TRAVELING ON ONE LEG. And the University of Nebraska Press reminded the trade they have Mueller’s […]
Awards
Herta Müller Wins Nobel for Literature
The judges remained “Eurocentric” after all, picking the Romanian-born German novelist. They couldn’t resist her writing about the “landscape of the dispossessed” through “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose.” Muller had jumped up in UK betting in recent days, driving speculation of a leak from the Swedish Academy. Her Impac winner The Land of the Green Plums looks to be available in the US from Northwestern University Press; 2002’s The Appointment looks available from Picador.Guardian
Hilary Mantel Breaks Favorite's Curse and Wins Booker for Wolf Hall
She squeaked by in a three-to-two vote among the judges, but the heavily-favored Mantel prevailed last night and took the Booker Prize. Chair of the judges James Naughtie said, “It wasn’t a unanimous decision. These things seldom are, but it was a decision with which we were all content. There was no blood on the carpet. We parted good friends.” It’s the first-ever Booker win for the UK’s Fourth Estate, and Holt is set to release the US edition next Tuesday. At the Huffington Post, Amy Hertz praises and congratulates her mentor and Mantel’s US editor, Jack Macrae. Mantel, who […]
People and Awards
Simon & Schuster UK group sales & marketing director Charlotte Robertson is leaving to join Aitken Alexander as an agent next year. At Cengage Learning, Ron Mobed has been hired as president of the academic andprofessional group, effective immediately, reporting to ceo Ronald Dunn. Previous president Charles Siegel is retiring. The National Book Foundation named their new list of “5 Under 35“: Ceridwen Dovey, Blood KinC. E. Morgan, All the LivingLydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of BreathingKaren Russell, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by WolvesJosh Weil, The New Valley Ian Frazier won the Thurber Prize for American Humor […]
November Indie Next Picks
Chronic City: A Novel, by Jonathan LethemMennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, by Rhoda JanzenThe Financial Lives of the Poets: A Novel, by Jess WalterLit: A Memoir, by Mary KarrInvisible, by Paul AusterA Friend of the Family: A Novel, by Lauren GrodsteinBeloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, by Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, and Pamela Mittlefehldt (eds.)Americans in Space: A Novel, by Mary E. MitchellLast Night in Twisted River: A Novel, by John IrvingThe Evolution of Shadows: A Novel, by Jason Quinn MalottThe Lacuna: A Novel, by Barbara KingsolverHardball: A […]
People and Awards: New Head for RH Mondadori, Harper's Chief Digital Officer, Also on the Gallery Editorial Team, and More
Following the previous announcement of the elevation of Random House Mondadori ceo Riccardo Cavallero to general manager of trade publishing at Mondadori (which is a joint venture partner in RH Mondadori), the owners have jointly named Nuria Cabuti, 42 as the unit’s new ceo, effective January 1, based in Barcelona. She has been publisher and editorial director of the Random House Mondadori Children’s and Paperback divisions. A letter from Random House ceo Markus Dohle and Mondadori Group chief executive Maurizio Costa notes that “as a publishing leader she has significantly improved our children’s books results, and increased our paperback revenues […]