On July 18, 2018, I published the following post on Book Riot.
The longlist for the alternative Nobel Prize, and award meant to be handed out instead of the regular Nobel Prize in Literature, is now available, nominating 47 Swedish and international authors.
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In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.
On July 8, 2018, I published my first critical essay in literature for Ploughshares, titled “Power and Powerlessness in Alexander Chee’s Essay The Querent.”
I am very excited about this essay. Not only because it gave me an opportunity to delve deeper into the wonderful writings of Alexander Chee, but because being published by Ploughshares is something that I have been striving for . With this essay being published on Ploughshares’s blog, I need to set a new goal for myself.
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In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.
On July 2, 2018 I published the following post on Book Riot.
The Swedish Academy has announced it will not be awarding a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018. Instead, an alternative Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded by a recently founded Swedish non-profit organization called The New Academy (Den nya akademien).
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In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.
On June 26, 2018, I published the following post on Book Riot.
In this post, I name eight authors as the best science fiction authors for the past 150 years. Curious to see who they are, and if you agree with me?
In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.
I am on Washington Post’s history blog Made by History today talking about how learning about the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) can help us better understand how to deal (or not to deal) with messy conflicts, such as, e.g., the civil war in Syria.
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In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.
Anthony Bourdain was one of the few people who touched me deeply without me ever having met him. That is why the news of his death from suicide on June 8 came as a blow that I am still grappling to understand. To commemorate a unique human being I wrote the following post on Book Riot, published on June 13, 2018.
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I have blogged about Anthony Bourdain here on The Boomerang as well.
The Yangambi Research Library.
The Literary Anthony Bourdain, Master Chef and Traveler.
In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.
On May 31, 2018 I published the following post on Book Riot.
Great Gate at Hampton Court Palace, London, England. Source: Wikipedia.
Tudor England. Undoubtedly one of the most intriguing historical time periods in European history. Books about Tudor England conjures images of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth as Gloriana, the Spanish Armada, and last, but absolutely not least, William Shakespeare.
But as always, there is so much more to any historical time period and to any society of the past than a few infamous personalities and events. So, too, with Tudor England.
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In the words of my friend, the Australian, I shall return.
Erik Kwakkel blogging about medieval manuscripts
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