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W.S. Merwin Named US Poet Laureate
On July 1, 2010, the Library of Congress announced the appointment of W.S. Merwin as the Library's seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2010–2011. Merwin will take up his duties October 25 and will serve in the Poet Laureate position for one year. The choice is based on poetic merit alone and has included a wide variety of poetic styles. Merwin, who has been published by Copper Canyon Press since 2005, succeeds Kay Ryan as Poet Laureate and joins a long line of distinguished poets who have served in this position, including Charles Simic, Donald Hall, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, and Billy Collins. A representative for the Library of Congress commented, "William Merwin is universally regarded as a premier figure in the literary world. His poems are often profound and, at the same time, accessible to a vast audience."
During a sixty-year writing career with more than thirty books, Merwin has received nearly every major literary award, including the National Book Award in 2005 for Migration: New & Selected Poems. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize; in 2009 for The Shadow of Sirius and in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders. In 2006 he won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress for Present Company.
The Twin is Winner of the 2010 IMPAC Award!
Today in Dublin Gerbrand Bakker's debut novel The Twin was announced the winner of the 2010 IMPAC Award. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind—open to books written in any language with nominees selected by libraries around the globe. The Twin was chosen as the winner from a long list of 156 titles, among them some of the year's bestselling books. The award carries a €100,000 prize.
The Twin | Gerbrand Bakker; Translated by David Colmer | Archipelago Books | 978-1-935744-04-7 | $16.00 | Trade Paper
The Twin | Gerbrand Bakker; Translated by David Colmer | Archipelago Books | 978-0-9800330-2-1 | $25.00 | Trade Cloth
The Twin | Gerbrand Bakker; Translated by David Colmer | Archipelago Books | 978-0-9819873-3-0 | $25.00 | eBook
Consortium Publishers Win Two Pulitzer Prizes!
Consortium is proud to announce that Tinkers, a first novel by Paul Harding published by Bellevue Literary Press, has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction! Tinkers is available now in trade paper, trade cloth, and eBook formats.
Next to Normal, a musical by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt published by Theatre Communications Group (and winner of three 2009 Tony Awards), has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Drama! Next to Normal will be available July 2010.
See the full list of Pulitzer Prize winners here: www.pulitzer.org.
Tinkers | Paul Harding | Bellevue Literary Press | 9781934137123 | $14.95 | Trade Paper
Tinkers | Paul Harding | Bellevue Literary Press | 9781934137192 | $25.00 | Trade Cloth
Tinkers | Paul Harding | Bellevue Literary Press | 9781934137222 | $14.95 | eBook
Next to Normal | Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt | Theatre Communications Group | 9781559363709 | $14.95 | Trade Paper