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Obamas Unveil Presidential Library Plans, Best Translated Book Awards, and More [1]

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5.5.17

Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:

Barack and Michelle Obama have unveiled initial design plans for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park, which will include the first completely digital presidential library [2]. (Chicago Tribune)

The tenth annual Best Translated Book Award [3] winners have been announced. Alejandra Pizarnik’s Extracting the Stone of Madness [4], translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert, won in poetry; and Lúcio Cardoso’s Chronicle of the Murdered House [5], translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, won in fiction. The two $10,000 prizes are split equally between authors and translators. (Publishers Weekly)

For Short Story Month, the San Francisco Chronicle features reviews of three new story collections by immigrant writers [6]: Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People (winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for Immigrant Writing), Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars, and Osama Alomar’s The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories.

At PBS NewsHour, Elizabeth Flock considers a new anthology of poetry and prose by writers from West Virginia [7]. Doug Van Gundy, coeditor of the anthology, says the selected writing “combats stereotypes from a state like this—that it’s a place of lesser sophistication, of lower literacy, conservative in all the worst ways instead of the best ways.” Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry From West Virginia, is available now from West Virginia University Press.

Touted as “Oprah’s Book Club for millennials,” [8] the book recommendation engine from theSkimm [9]—a daily news digest “rewritten for a millennial audience”—has helped drive book sales, and publishers are taking notice. (Business Insider)

Kevin Kwan, author of the international best-selling fiction trilogy Crazy Rich Asians, is currently writing a television adaptation [10] of the series for STXtv. Details have not been disclosed, but the premise will involve a set of “globe-trotting, multinational, glamorous” characters, similar to those in Kwan’s trilogy. A film adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians is currently in production in Singapore and Malaysia. (Hollywood Reporter)

Meanwhile, The Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins [11] talks with the Los Angeles Times about film adaptations, writing troubled women characters, and her new novel, Into the Water, out now from Riverhead Books.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/presidential_library_plans_best_translated_book_awards_and_more [2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamalibrary/ct-obama-library-met-kamin-0503-20170503-story.html [3] http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73512-cardoso-pizarnik-win-2017-best-translated-book-awards.html [4] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811223965/ref=nosim/themill0b-20 [5] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1940953502/ref=nosim/themill0b-20 [6] http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Immigrant-voices-Fiction-by-Unnikrishnan-11121898.php#photo-12832963 [7] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/returning-home-west-virginians-rewriting-poetry-appalachia/ [8] http://www.businessinsider.com/skimmreads-is-oprahs-book-club-for-millennials-2017-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PublishersLunchAutomat+%28Publishers+Lunch+Automat%29 [9] http://www.theskimm.com/ [10] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/crazy-rich-asians-author-developing-scripted-series-stx-1000151 [11] http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-paula-hawkins-20170426-htmlstory.html