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literary news: Author Hugo Claus dead at 78 www.iht.com Hugo Claus, who wrote Belgium's definitive postwar novel, chose euthanasia to end his battle with Alzheimer's disease Wednesday, his wife said. He was 78. 'He himself picked the moment of his death and asked for euthanasia,' Veerle De Wit said in a statement. Claus did not want to extend his suffering, his wife added. Claus, who rebelled against the constraints of bourgeois, Roman Catholic society, produced some 200 works since World War II, but is best known for his classic The Sorrow of Belgium, a scathing attack on bourgeois and religious hypocrisy in his native northern Flanders. Claus used his literary versatility to expose the social injustice, stifling family relationships and Roman Catholic repression in Flanders. All those themes came together in his blockbuster The Sorrow of Belgium, a partly autobiographical work that defined his long career and shot him to prominence on the international scene. In Belgium each year, fans' anticipation that he might win the Nobel Prize for literature became a rite of autumn, but he died without receiving the ultimate accolade. literary news: Transcript 28: Children's Literature / Littérature Jeunesse / Kinderbücher www.transcript-review.org The latest edition of Transcript, the trilingual European Internet Review of Books and Writing, is pleased to showcase brilliant children's writing and illustration from Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia and Catalonia. In the article 'More countries, better books', we hear a plea for more international cooperation between small publishers from Mladen Jandrlic, head of the Zürich literary agency books & rights. And in 'The Farrera Job', we spotlight a unique international children's book project, 'Anna and Niko', organised by Literature Across Frontiers in partnership with cultural institutes from across Europe. Plus the wonderful Slovenian illustrator Lila Prap grants us an interview. literary news: The Literary Colloquium Berlin www.lcb.de Literature has many places, for you can read anywhere as long as you have light and quiet. That’s not how it is for writing, and even listening requires its own places. If you are looking for one such place, you should travel to the southern part of Berlin and turn, right across from the Wannsee train station, into the street called 'Am Sandwerder'. After less than fifty paces, you will stand in front of the wrought-iron gate with the number 5. You will see a spacious driveway, several parking spots, smaller buildings to the left and to the right, and straight ahead — between trees, built with red brick, and sporting a turret — one of the lavish mansions that have adorned the city’s better, wealthier neighborhoods since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Residing here, the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB), however, represents a wealth of a special kind. (read on...) |
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