Erika Harlitz-Kern holds a doctorate from a Swedish university and can't get enough of history, books, and music. Her earliest memories involve a comic book and a Dutch troubadour. She has travelled South Asia on a shoestring, although nowadays she spends most of her vacations in the Mississippi Delta. Lives with her husband in South Florida, because sooner or later they would've ended up there anyway. Blog: The Boomerang Twitter: EH_Kern
During the Nobel Prize ceremony two prizes in literature will be awarded--one for 2019 and one for 2018
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Guadaloupean author Maryse Condé has been awarded the New Academy Literary Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Swedish Academy elects two new members, restoring its quorum. Does this mean we will get a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019?
Japanese author Haruki Murakami withdraws his nomination from The New Academy Prize in Literature, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize in Literature.
The New Academy announced the four finalists for the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature 2018, the result of a global online voting campaign.
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The longlist for the alternative Nobel Prize in Literature reveals the intellectual isolation of the Swedish Academy.
N.K. Jemisin's short story collection HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH? will be available on November 27, 2018 through Orbit.
The recipients of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced at Readercon 29.
An alternative Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 will be awarded by The New Academy, a Swedish non-profit organization.
A list of the best science fiction authors of the past 150 years.
Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown visited the librarians who fight to save the abandoned Yangambi Research Library on the Congo River.
50 must-read books about Tudor England in all its contradictory glory of racism, conviviality, homosexuality, female friendship, childbirth, witch trials, antisemitism without Jews, encounters with Islam, conflicts with Spain, and Shakesqueer.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 has been cancelled following sexual assault allegations, cover-ups, and and a criminal investigation. Now what?