Hayun Cho, Declan Falls and Josh Hoeflich, all pupils at North Shore Country Day, win award previously given to Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to Issue 7 of Interlitq

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, the U.S. novelist who contributed prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Winnetka students recognized for literary talent: Regional awards go to 3 at North Shore Country Day” (Brian L. Cox, Chicago Tribune, 13.05.13): “Founded in 1923, the awards represent the nation’s longest-running educational initiative supporting student achievement in the visual and literary arts. The program has a 90-year legacy of acknowledging creative talent and is the largest source of scholarships for creative teens, according to the organization’s website. Previous winners included Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford and Joyce Carol Oates.”

Compared to Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to Issue 7 of Interlitq, 13 year old Maya Little-Saña “went into a dark place having to recall all the pain”

Joyce Carol Oates

13 year old Maya Little-Saña has been compared (Maureen Magee, U-T San Diego, 08.05.13)  to Joyce Carol Oates, the U.S. novelist who contributed prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq: “At 13, Maya Little-Saña finds herself in the company of literary giants. Like a young Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike and other student writers before her, Maya has won a National Scholastic Art & Writing Award.”

Truman Capote

John Updike

 

Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed to Issue 10 of Interlitq, has been shortlisted for the Orwell prize 2013

Carmen Bugan

Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed both poetry and prose to Issue 10 of Interlitq, has been shortlisted for the Orwell prize 2013.

George Orwell

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, selected as a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

Junot Díaz

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer prize-winning author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been selected as a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (680 News, 22.04.13): Junot Diaz and Louise Erdrich are among the finalists for a literary prize chosen by the American Library Association. Diaz’s “This Is How You Lose Her” and Erdrich’s “The Round House” are nominees for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Also contending for the $5,000 award is Richard Ford’s “Canada.” Finalists for the nonfiction category, also worth $5,000, are Jill Lepore’s “The Mansion of Happiness,” Timothy Egan’s “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher” and David Quammen’s “Spillover.”

Elena Poniatowska, a Vice-President of Interlitq, cited in “Oil, Chavez And Telenovelas: The Rise Of The Venezuelan Novel”

Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska, the Mexican journalist and author who is a Vice-President of Interlitq, has been cited in “Oil, Chavez And Telenovelas: The Rise Of The Venezuelan Novel” (Marcela Valdes, NPR, 11.04.13): “Yet since 1967, a Venezuelan award, the International Novel Prize Rómulo Gallegos, has been the kingmaker of Spanish-language book prizes. Among the crowned: Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, Enrique Vila-Matas and Ricardo Piglia.”

Venezuelan author Romulo Gallegos (1884-1969), circa 1950.