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11 - 12 April 2025

11 April: Europese Literatuurprijs longlist | PEN America Literary Awards finalists | Paul Dry Q & A | Salome production | The Arsonist review
12 April: Prix Hors Concours longlist | Peter Lovesey (1936-2025)

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       Prix Hors Concours longlist

       They've announced the very long longlist for this year's prix Hors Concours, a French award for a book published by an independent press; not at the official site, last I checked, but see, for example, the Livres Hebdo report.
       Forty titles !

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       Peter Lovesey (1936-2025)

       British mystery author Peter Lovesey has passed away; see, for example, the Soho Press report.

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       Europese Literatuurprijs longlist

       They've announced the longlist for this year's Europese Literatuurprijs, a Dutch prize for the best European novel translated into Dutch -- twelve titles, including Samantha Harvey's Orbit.
       The only title under review at the complete review is Daniel Kehlmann's The Director.
       The shortlist will be announced 24 June.

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       PEN America Literary Awards finalists

       They've announced the finalists for this year's PEN America Literary Awards.
       The only title under review is in the PEN Translation Prize-category -- Antonia Lloyd-Jones' translation of The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk.
       The winners will be announced 8 May.

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       Paul Dry Q & A

       Billy Penn at WHYY Penn has a Q & A with Paul Dry of Paul Dry Books, in ‘Every now and then, one thrives wonderfully’.
       Several Paul Dry books are under review at the complete review, including: The Homeless by Stefan Żeromski and Stone Tablets by Wojciech Żukrowski

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       Salome production

       It's the Richard Strauss opera that is more frequently performed, but good to see there's also the occasional stage-production of Wilde's play -- with one premiering today, at the Imago Theatre in Portland, Oregon, running through the 27th; see their publicity page.
       See also Drew Pisarra explaining How (and why) I updated Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’ for Imago Theatre, at Oregon Artswatch.
       He explains:

My goal was to convert Wilde’s tragic pageant into something more like a Strindbergian chamber piece. To distill. To intensify. To collaborate with the dead, albeit with invisible ink. It proved to be an invigorating experiment and not just a dramaturgical exercise.

       And see, of course, also my novel, Salome in Graz .....

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       The Arsonist review

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Egon Hostovský's prize-winning 1935 novel, The Arsonist, which Twisted Spoon Press is re-issuing.

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