Archive for the O Category
Tommy Orange
Posted in O with tags Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars on March 8, 2024 by katherinehilden
Sarah Ogilvie
Posted in O with tags Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People on February 18, 2024 by katherinehilden
The Dictionary People Knopf (October 17, 2023)
History, 384 pages. ISBN-10 : 0593536401 ISBN-13 : 978-0593536407
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Posted in A, O with tags Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi, Savage Tongues on January 12, 2024 by katherinehilden
Savage Tongues. Novel, 288 pages. Mariner Books (August 3, 2021) ISBN-10 : 0358315069 ISBN-13 : 978-0358315063
2019 PEN/Faulkner award
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Yoko Ogawa
Posted in O with tags Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa on September 20, 2020 by katherinehilden
novelist, short story writer, essayist
2008 Shirley Jackson Award for The Diving Pool
2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist for Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (Japanese; trans. Stephen Snyder)[2]
2020 American Book Award for The Memory Police (Japanese; trans. Stephen Snyder)[3]
2020 Booker Prize finalist
Works in English translation:
The Man Who Sold Braces, 1998
Transit, 1996
The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain, 1991
Pregnancy Diary, 1991
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas, 1990
Dormitory, 1991
The Housekeeper and the Professor, 2003
Hotel Iris , 1996
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales,1998
The Memory Police, 1994
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Alice Oswald
Posted in O with tags Alice Oswald, Falling Awake, Homeric, Memorial, Ted Hughes on August 24, 2020 by katherinehilden
poet
1996: The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5
2002: Dart, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21410-X
2005: The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet (editor), Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21854-7
2005: Woods etc., Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21852-0
2009: Weeds and Wild Flowers, Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-23749-4
2009: A sleepwalk on the Severn, Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-24756-1
2011: Memoria,l Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-27416-1
2016: Falling Awake, Jonathan Cape
2019: Nobody, Jonathan Cape
2020: A Short Story of Falling – Metal Engravings by Maribel Mas. Published by Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry
1994: Eric Gregory Award
2005: shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), for Woods etc.
2009: Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for Weeds and Wild Flowers
2013: Warwick Prize for Writing, winner for Memorial
2013: Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry, winner for Memorial
2016: Costa Award for Poetry for Falling Awake
2017: Griffin Poetry Prize for Falling Awake
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/24/alice-oswalds-homeric-mood
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Iris Origo
Posted in O with tags Byron, English writer in Italy, Iris Origo, Mussolini years on July 15, 2020 by katherinehilden
1902-1988
biographer, writer
Tribune of Rome: A Biography of Cola di Rienzo (1938), on the 14th-century Roman revolutionary
War in Val d’Orcia (1947; NYRB edition 2018), diary of the last years of Fascism and liberation of Italy
The Last Attachment (1949), on Byron and Countess Guiccioli
Giovanni and Jane (1950), a children’s book
A Measure of Love (1957), biographical essays
Images and Shadows (1970), an elegiac autobiography
A Need to Testify (1984), biographies of Ignazio Silone, Gaetano Salvemini, Ruth Draper and Lauro de Bosis, four opponents of Fascism
Un’amica. Ritratto di Elsa Dallolio (1988), a memoir of an old friend
A Chill in the Air – An Italian War Diary 1939–1940. 2017
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Flannery O’Connor
Posted in O with tags A Good Man Is Hars To Find on June 23, 2020 by katherinehilden
1925-1964
Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Wise Blood , 1952
The Violent Bear It Away, 1960
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955
Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965
The Complete Stories, 1971
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/22694.Flannery_O_Connor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/how-racist-was-flannery-oconnor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/16/my-dear-god
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/01/29/this-lonesome-place
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/07/06/flannery-oconnor-cartoonist/
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Joseph O’Neill
Posted in O with tags cultural critic, fiction writer, lawyer on December 2, 2019 by katherinehilden
The Flier, short story
https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/joseph-oneill-11-11-19
Netherland (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2008)
The Dog (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2014)
Good Trouble (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihFzO-djTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkdfJFzeEuk
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Joyce Carol Oates
Posted in O with tags editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, poet, professor, short-story writer on November 1, 2019 by katherinehilden
Pursuit, Mysterious Press | 9780802147912 | Published October 1, 2019
Published 58 novels and collections of stories, including:
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories, 1970: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Black Water, 1993
What I Lived For, 1995
Blonde, 2001
Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories, 2015
A Garden of Earthly Delights, 2015
Expensive People, 1969
Wonderland, 1972
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, 1990
Black Water, 1992
What I Lived For, 1995
The Gravedigger’s Daughter, 2007
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Posted in O with tags Politician on July 5, 2019 by katherinehilden
U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district.
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