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Blog entries on '19 February 2007'
Monday 19 February 2007
Mai Ghoussoub RIP
Mai Ghoussoub of Saqi Books has died suddenly, aged just 45. More when I have it...
Mai was born in Lebanon and received her BA in French literature from the American University of Beirut. She moved to London in 1979 where she later studied sculpture at Morley College. She then worked as an artist, author and publisher with her works being exhibited in many venues in the UK.
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Monday 19 February 2007
RSB on the BBC
Welcome to those of you who have been directed to ReadySteadyBook via the BBC's Open Book radio programme: do have a good look around! RSB was featured on the programme yesterday with "literary editor Suzi Feay" kindly saying she was, "pretty impressed by it ... good standard of writing ... book choices intelligent and varied." Which is nice.
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Monday 19 February 2007
Jakov Lind RIP
Jakov Lind has died. I have no more information at present, I'm afraid. "Jakov Lind was born in Vienna in 1927. As an eleven-year old boy from a Jewish family, he left Austria after the Anschluss, found temporary refuge in Holland, and succeeded in surviving inside Nazi Germany by assuming a Dutch identity." After a literary apprenticeship in Israel, he made his reputation through works of fiction written in German and later in English. He was probably most famous for Soul of Wood, now sadly out of print.
Ironically, Forward.com's Joshua Cohen published a homage to Jakov just a couple of weeks ago entitled Paying Tribute to a Living Legend:
Lind’s oeuvre spans nearly 20 volumes, which have won him admiration and prizes, both in mainland Europe and in his adopted United Kingdom. Indeed, his reputation once was enormous: Critical acclaim, so often given to comparison, at one time held him as a successor to Franz Kafka; in the German-speaking world he was regarded as the peer, if not master, of Gunter Grass. Soul of Wood, a collection of stories, and the novels Landscape in Concrete and Ergo should have long established Lind’s fame and posterity, and not, perhaps as consequence of the very moral and stylistic complexity that makes them so important, his lamentable present estate.
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