literary
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His 2009 novel Jasper Jones - a coming-of-age story featuring a 13-year-old boy as its protagonist - garnered several awards in Australia and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awards.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Silverberg, the facilitator of Becky’s Book Club, is also a novelist and comedian and has worked for Literary Affairs for five years.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
Literary fiction: “V.” practically invented a genre all its own.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Appeared in the January 31, 2026, print edition as 'Lionel Shriver Infuriates The Literary World—Again'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
Though Gogol doesn’t know it, even Nikolai Gogol renamed himself, simplifying his surname at the age of twenty-two from Gogol-Yanovsky to Gogol upon publication in the Literary Gazette.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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