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Surfer, Environmentalist, Novelist. Australia’s Living Legend. The New York Times Book Review profiles author Tim Winton.

Winton’s new novel The Shepherd’s Hut is available July 2018 in Canada.

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“there’s so much generosity and spirit and humor shared by whatever characters are on the page at any given time that I was always happy to accompany them. And while not all the mysteries are resolved — least of all Sally’s — that’s really the point: Friends, especially childhood friends, don’t need to fully understand one another in order to accept one another.”

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“The discovery of translation has been fundamental to my sanity, coming back to the United States. It’s just been so meaningful to me to have Domenico’s work, in particular, to translate. It comes with this growing friendship that I find very comforting in some sense. It’s also extraordinarily challenging, translating. But even though I’m not writing as much in this phase, I know that the translation is feeding my creative work. Right now, I feel like my creative project is translation. It’s just constant reading and rereading, on such a deep level. If you’re reading anything at that depth, it brings this deep nourishment, linguistically and technically. When I see how Domenico deals with something—say, indirect discourse. Or, How does he deal with time? How does he deal with description? To plow through this new territory—it’s very invigorating for me.”

“Djavadi’s writing is not linear. She masterfully takes her reader through multiple parallel journeys in time and space. But all the Sadrs’ backstories, mostly told to Kimiâ at a tender age, and now retold to the reader, have some kind of fairy-tale quality, reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez’s magic realism. The reader might resist believing them, and to doubt Kimiâ’s credibility. The effect is provocative and, in the end, enriches the reading experience.”

Congratulations Hernan Diaz! In the Distance was named a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on April 16! The judges praised Diaz’s work as “a gorgeously written novel that charts one man’s growth from boyhood to mythic status as he journeys between continents and the extremes of the human condition.”

“The real meat of this story is an old man’s breakfasts and bath times with a wired-up four-year-old, his wrestling for the remote, desperately trying to find some space for himself and his work. Starnone, one of Italy’s most accomplished novelists, knows the territory and delivers it wonderfully. And whatever reservations we may have about the narrator’s cerebral distractions, they do at last allow little Mario to play a quite terrible trick on his granddad. All at once we have the novel’s title and our calamity. It doesn’t disappoint.”