Michael Orthofer
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M.A.Orthofer = the Complete Review + the Literary Saloon — and the novel, 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑧 (2024)
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https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/index.htm 12-03-2009 20:55:29
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"His wife cooks, he says, an admired female characteristic in his novels, but only dishes that he doesn’t eat. “Some vegetarian things,” he sighs. He sticks to ready-made microwave meals, like many of his characters." Michel Houellebecq has lunch Financial Times ft.com/content/73338e…
In the mail: very pleased to see ARC of Ghazaleh Alizadeh's 'The House of the Edrisis' (vol. 1), coming 10/2024 from Syracuse U Press press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6… Far too little (near-)contemporary Iranian fiction makes it into English ! (Only volume one, but vol. two coming 2/2025.)
New review: 'Overstaying' by Ariane Koch complete-review.com/reviews/suisse… Published in the UK by Pushkin Press earlier this year; now out in the US from Dorothy, a publishing project
Shortlist for The Booker Prizes announced thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/p…
Shortlist for the German Deutscher Buchpreis announced deutscher-buchpreis.de/en/news/item/s…
For pub day, check out this excerpt from Arian Koch's debut novel OVERSTAYING, translated by Damion Searls . . . Literary Hub! lithub.com/overstaying/