It isn't too often that you can wish a living author a happy hundredth birthday to, but today you can: Slovenian great Boris Pahor hits a hundred today, and is apparently still going strong; see The Slovenia Times article (way in advance), Tribute Paid to Writer Pahor Before His 100th Birthday or now Paul Jandl's (German) article about meeting the man recently, from Die Welt.
Notoriously under-translated into English, Dalkey Archive Press admirably re-published his Necropolis (previously published as Pilgrim among the Shadows) fairly recently; see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Notoriously under-translated into English, Dalkey Archive Press admirably re-published his Necropolis (previously published as Pilgrim among the Shadows) fairly recently; see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.