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“I narrate in such a free manner that, I hope, inspires the reader.” In this interview for Louisiana Channel, Olga Tokarczuk talks about air travel and how it influenced the story structure for her most recent novel, Flights (Riverhead Books, 2018), translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft, which is longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
Laurent Binet talks about his two novels, HHhH (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) and The Seventh Function of Language (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), both translated from the French by Sam Taylor, as well as the topics of semiotics and meta-narrative writing in this video for Vintage Books. The Seventh Function of Language is longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
At Shakespeare and Company in Paris, Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz talks about her debut novel, Die, My Love (Charco Press, 2017), with Carolina Orloff, who cotranslated the book from the Spanish with Sarah Moses. The novel is longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
Yan Lianke talks about his writing life and issues around the censorship of literature in China. Yan’s novel The Explosion Chronicles (Chatto & Windus, 2017), translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas, is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
"I'm a graphomaniac!" Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk talks about his love of writing for the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club. His newest novel, A Strangeness in My Mind (Knopf, 2015), is longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
“I was fascinated by the tales of my grandmother...it was enough for me. I didn’t need any books.” Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburō Ōe discusses his life and work in an interview with UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler in 1999. His latest novel, Death by Water (Grove Press, 2015), is longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
"I give my thanks to Franz Kafka whose novel Das Schloss [The Castle] I read when I was twelve years old… I believe my fate was sealed." Hungarian fiction writer László Krasznahorkai gives his acceptance speech for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize last month.
Fanny Howe introduces three short films she made in collaboration with Sheila Gallagher, John Gianvito, and Maceo Senna at a film screening at the Woodberry Poetry Room. Howe has been named a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
