Friday, October 11, 2013

Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest

Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for October 10, 2013.

Jhumpa Lahiri on the roots of The Lowland, her writing process and more

Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland -- the lyrically written, heartbreaking tale of two very different brothers and their very different fates -- was our spotlight pick of September and one of our favorite novels in quite a while. It’s both accessible and profound, which may be why it also made the long for the National Book Award this year.

I spoke with Pulitzer Prizewinning author, who is as …

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Canadian Author Alice Munro Wins 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

Alice Munro, the Canadian short story writer, has been named the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. In recent years, the prize has gone to an international cast of authors: China’s Mo Yan in 2012, the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer in 2011, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010, and Herta Müller in 2009, a German novelist and poet born in Romania.

Ms. Munro, who is 82,…

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