Lydia Davis, a contributor to Issue 1 of Interlitq, awarded the Man Booker International prize

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis, the U.S. author who contributed fiction to Issue 1 of Interlitq, has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her “achievement in fiction on the world stage” (BBC News, 22.05.13).

Visiting Princeton, Louis Greenberg “knocked timidly” on the office door of Elaine Showalter, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, “but she was away”

Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter, the U.S. literary critic who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Trying to Pass: Building a Career in Reading and Writing” (Louis Greenberg, Books Live, 23.05.13): ”I knocked timidly on Elaine Showalter’s office door, but she was away.”

Louis Greenberg

Writing in The New Yorker, and discussing Dante in translation and Dan Brown’s new novel, Joan Acocella cites Robert Pinsky, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky, the U.S. poet who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in  ”WHAT THE HELL: Dante in translation and in Dan Brown’s new novel” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 27.05.13): “By my count there have been something like a hundred English-language translations, and not just by scholars but by blue-chip poets: in the past half century, John Ciardi, Allen Mandelbaum, Robert Pinsky, W. S. Merwin.”

Dante Alighieri

John Ciardi

Allen Mandelbaum

W. S. Merwin

Dan Brown

Joan Acocella

Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Biopic Blonde based on a 700-page imagined memoir written by Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to issue 7 of Interlitq

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, the U.S. author who contributed prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Cannes: Worldview Options Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Biopic Blonde” (Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 18.05.13): “The fictional biopic of Marilyn Monroe is based on a 700-page imaginedmemoir written by Joyce Carol Oates.”

Marilyn Monroe

Nancy Tartaglione

Lydia Davis, a contributor to Issue 1 of Interlitq, shortlisted for Man Booker prize 2013

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis, the U.S. author who contributed fiction to Issue 1 of Interlitq, has been cited in “URA shortlisted for Man Booker prize” (Deccan Herald, 20.05.13):  ”Noted litterateur U R Ananthamurthy has been shortlisted as one of the ten finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013 that is given away in recognition of the winner’s achievement in fiction and comes with a cash reward of £60,000.

The winner will be announced at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Wednesday. Besides Ananthamurthy, other finalists are Aharon Appelfeld (Israel), Lydia Davis (USA), Intizar Husain (Pakistan), Yan Lianke (China), Marie NDiaye (France), Josip Novakovich (Canada), Marilynne Robinson (USA), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), and Peter Stamm (Switzerland).”

U.R. Ananthamurthy

Aharon Appelfeld

Intizar Husain

Yan Lianke

Marie NDiaye

Josip Novakovich

Marilynne Robinson

Vladimir Sorokin

Peter Stamm