They've announced that this year's FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages will go to Blindly-author Claudio Magris; he will get his US$150,000 and the prize on 29 November, at the opening ceremonies of the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
This prize has a solid list of previous winners, but Magris is certainly a worthy winner -- and good to see the prize look beyond Spanish again (not many Italian-writing winners so far ...).
This prize has a solid list of previous winners, but Magris is certainly a worthy winner -- and good to see the prize look beyond Spanish again (not many Italian-writing winners so far ...).