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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“EBRD”) Literature Prize was created in 2017 and is awarded to the year’s “best work of literary fiction”, translated into English, from the Bank’s countries of operations, and published by a UK publisher.

There is a €20,000 prize which is split equally between the author and translator. The two runners-up and their translators receive a prize of €4,000 each.

Past winners:

2018 – ‘Istanbul, Istanbul’ by the Turkish author Burhan Sönmez and his translator Ümit Hussein.

2019 – ‘The Devils’ Dance’ by Hamid Ismailov and translated from Uzbek by Donald Rayfield (with John Farndon)

2020 – ‘Devilspel’ by Grigory Kanovich and translated from Russian by Yisrael Elliot Cohen

2021 – ‘The King of Warsaw’ by writer Szczepan Twardoch and translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

The judges for the 2022 Prize are Toby Lichtig (Chair), the Fiction and Politics Editor of the…

Monday

I met up with X today. We ate pancakes. He said I look good. I wish he wouldn’t lie.

Tuesday

I don’t know what else to do. I have told him I’m sorry a dozen times.

Wednesday

He came to collect his things today. I couldn’t stop crying.

Thursday

Nothing sparks joy in me anymore.

Friday

I haven’t eaten since Wednesday.

Saturday

I saw him buying wine and chocolates at the corner shop. I wanted to die right there.

Sunday

I played poker with someone online. He stole my King, leaving a desperately lonely Queen.

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Cherokee multimedia artist and activist Shan Goshorn (1957–2018)

Self Portrait in Artist Studio, 1996 / Hand-tinted photograph / National Museum of the American Indian, DC

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Cathy at 746 Books is hosting Reading Ireland Month, and since I’m the lucky one who won the giveaway for Nora by Nuala O’Connor, it seems only appropriate for me to whip up a post about my favourite Irish women writers. I haven’t yet read anything by Nuala O’Connor, but I feel confident that she will join my other favourites because her novel Nora is the fictionalised love story of of Nora Barnacle, wife and muse of my favourite male Irish writer, James Joyce…

However, these are the Irish women writers who are my favourites so far.  Links are to my reviews:

Elizabeth Bowen 

The Heat of the Day, and a Sensational Snippet: The Heat of the Day

Mary Costello

The River Capture

The China Factory, Guest Review by Karenlee Thompson 

Evelyn Conlon

Not the Same Sky, and on the wishlist Skin of Dreams, Stars in the Daytime…

Foto: ©Wolfregen

Vorfrühlingstag

Der Himmel ist blau,
Die Erde noch grau,
Doch wach schon und emsig dabei,
Der Fluss liegt offen und frei;
Sein Wasser strömt kräftig dahin,
Es spiegelt sich Aufbruch darin.

Kein Zweig mehr bereift,
Ein Vogel hier pfeift
Mit wehmütig lieblichem Ton,
Des Winters Geist ist davon;
Die Sonne scheint golden und warm
Und doch ist der Boden noch arm.

Noch wenig bis nichts,
An Farbe gebricht‘s,
An Grün und lebendigem Rot,
Noch wirkt‘s gespenstisch und tot;
Ein Blümlein entdeckt ich im Wald,
Es folgen ihm viele schon bald.

©Wolfregen