Posted by Steven
on 19/10/2009, 0:45:19, in reply to "Nominations for 2010"
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For easier reference, this is a combination of the lists that Joffre and I posted in an earlier thread. As hints for possible nominations, here are some anniversaries, countries we've never explored, and recent award winners.
2010 Anniversaries
2010 will be the 350th anniversary of:
The birth of Daniel Defoe
2010 will be the 200th anniversary of:
“The Marquise of O…” by Heinrich von Kleist
The birth of Elizabeth Gaskell
2010 will be the 150th anniversary of:
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Evan Harrington by George Meredith
Max Havelaar by Multatuli
Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
The birth of Anton Chekhov
The birth of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2010 will be the 100th anniversary of:
Howards End by E. M. Forster
The Vagabond by Colette
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Pelle the Conqueror by Martin Andersen Nexo
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Psmith in the Cith by P. G. Wodehouse
The death of Mark Twain
The death of Leo Tolstoy
2010 will be the 75th anniversary of:
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Swami and Friends by R. K. Narayan
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
The birth of E. Annie Proulx
The birth of Ken Kesey
The birth of Thomas Keneally
The birth of J. G. Farrell
The birth of David Lodge
The birth of Kenzaburo Oe
The birth of Francoise Sagan
The birth of Carol Shields
2010 will be the 50th anniversary of:
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
The Winners by Julio Cortazar
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
The birth of Jeffrey Eugenides
The death of Albert Camus
The death of Zora Neale Hurston
The death of Boris Pasternak
The death of Richard Wright
2010 will be the 25th anniversary of:
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Black Robe by Brian Moore
The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Death of Heinrich Böll
The Death of Robert Graves
2010 will be the 10th anniversary of:
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man by Joseph Heller
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
The death of Anthony Powell
The death of Georgio Bassani
The death of Malcolm Bradbury
Books read by nationality through Dec 2009:
England - 14
United States - 13
France - 10
Russia - 9
Canada - 5
Germany - 5
Australia - 3
Austria - 3
India - 3
Ireland - 3
Italy - 3
Japan - 3
Egypt - 2
Netherlands - 2
Peru - 2
Poland - 2
South Africa - 2
Turkey - 2
Afghanistan - 1
Bosnia Herzegovina - 1
Brazil - 1
Czech Republic - 1
Greece - 1
Hungary - 1
Israel - 1
Lebanon - 1
Mexico - 1
Portugal - 1
Spain - 1
Switzerland - 1
Trinidad - 1
Nationalities not yet read by our group (with suggested authors):
Albania (Ismail Kadare)
Argentina (Julio Cortazar, Manuel Puig, Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares)
Chile (Isabel Allende, Roberto Bolano, Jose Donoso)
China (Ba Jin, Dai Sijie, Gao Xingjian, Han Shaogong)
Columbia (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Cuba (Reinalso Arenas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Jose Lezama Lima)
Denmark (Isak Dinesen)
Dominican Republic (Junot Diaz)
Ghana (Ayi Kwei Armah)
Guatemala (Miguel Angel Asturias)
Haiti (Edwidge Danticat)
Kenya (Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
Lesotho (Thomas Mofolo)
Morocco (Tahar Ben Jelloun)
New Zealand (Janet Frame, Maurice Gee, Keri Hulme)
Nigeria (Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wole Soyinka)
Norway (Knut Hamsun, Per Petterson)
Pakistan (Mohsin Hamid)
Senegal (Mariama Ba, Ousmane Sembene)
Serbia (Danilo Kis, Milorad Pavic)
Sweden (Per Olov Enquist)
Uruguay (Juan Carlos Onetti)
Zimbabwe (Tsitsi Dangarembga, Doris Lessing)
Recent Award Winners (excluding ones we’ve already read)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2008: Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
2007: Rosalind Belben - Our Horses in Egypt
2004: David Peace - GB84
Man Booker Prize
2009: Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
2008: Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
2007: Anne Enright - The Gathering
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
2009: Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
2008: Lawrence Hill - The Book of Negroes
2007: Lloyd Jones - Mr. Pip
Costa Novel Award
2008: Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
2007: A. L. Kennedy - Day
2006: William Boyd - Restless
Costa First Novel Award
2008: Sadie Jones - The Outcast
2007: Catherine O’Flynn - What Was Lost
2006: Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves
Giller Prize
2008: Joseph Boyden - Through Black Spruce
2007: Elizabeth Hay - Late Nights on Air
2006: Vincent Lam - Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Governor General’s Literary Award
2008: Nino Ricci - The Origin of Species
2007: Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
2006: Peter Behrens - The Law of Dreams
IMPAC Dublin Award
2009: Michael Thomas - Man Gone Down
2008: Rawi Hage - De Niro’s Game
2007: Per Petterson - Out Stealing Horses
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
2009: Evelio Rosero - The Armies
2008: Paul Verhaeghen - Omega Minor
2007: Jose Eduardo Agualusa - The Book of Chameleons
Kiriyama Prize for Fiction
2009: (no awards while prize is being restructured)
2008: Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip
2007: Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
L.A. Times Book Prize for Fiction
2008: Marilynne Robinson - Home
2007: Andrew O’Hagan - Be Near Me
2006: A. B. Yehoshua - A Woman in Jerusalem
Miles Franklin Award
2009: Tim Winton - Breath
2008: Steven Carroll - The Time We Have Taken
2007: Alexis Wright - Carpentaria
National Book Award for Fiction
2008: Peter Matthiessen - Shadow Country
2007: Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke
2006: Richard Powers - Echo Maker
National Book Critics Circle Award
2008: Roberto Bolano - 2666
2007: Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2005: E. L. Doctorow - The March
Orange Prize
2009: Marilynne Robinson - Home
2008: Rose Tremain - The Road Home
2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
PEN/Faulkner Award
2009: Joseph O’Neill - Netherland
2008: Kate Christensen - The Great Man
2007: Philip Roth - Everyman
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2009: Elizabeth Stout - Olive Kitteridge
2008: Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006: Geraldine Brooks - March
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