“The outrageous has become the everyday”: Remembering Ingeborg Bachmann
It’s wild to think that, had things turned out differently, the Austrian poet, librettist, and playwright Ingeborg Bachmann could be alive today. We can even imagine her throwing a joint ninety-second birthday party with Mel… Read more »
Nobel laureates pen an open letter to the Turkish president, calling for the acquittal of writers sentenced to life in prison
A group of thirty-eight Nobel laureates, including JM Coetzee, Wole Soyinka, Svetlana Alexievich, Mario Vargas Llosa, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Elfriede Jelinek have signed an open letter to Turkish President Recep… Read more »
Happy birthday, Elfriede Jelinek!
Happy seventy-first birthday to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek! Best known for her novels and plays, she’s also written essays, screenplays, and poems, all of them marked by stark intelligence, far left… Read more »
Coalition of writers sends letter to colleagues imprisoned in Turkey
A coalition of 150 writers, including Nobel laureates, former prisoners of conscience, and and many more, has sent a letter of support to colleagues imprisoned in Turkey via PEN International. Turkey, as… Read more »
Bob Dylan will not be attending the Nobel ceremony, because he’s super busy right now
In a statement at once touching and vaguely threatening, the Nobel Academy announced on Wednesday that literary-laureate-to-be Bob Dylan “has decided not to come to Stockholm.” According to the release, Dylan… Read more »