![]() ![]() By the end of the book, as he really tries to ratchet up the sense of drama, he is writing things like this: This is from his introductory remarks on the first page. It may be the commencement of spring or perhaps the end of summer it matters less what the season is than that the air is almost seasonless – benign and neutral, windless, devoid of heat or cold. Yet the register of his narration is jarringly elevated: ![]() Nat has scrabbled together a self-taught literacy through a study of the Bible. ![]() The book is narrated by Nat Turner, the poor and uneducated slave who led a rebellion against white society in 1831. The book may have won the Pulitzer, but for me it has two major problems: the narrative voice is wildly inappropriate and the characterisation is on ethically shaky ground. Some have traced the outcry which followed its release to the simple fact that a white Virginian author was writing his way into the mind of a 19th century black slave, but that is hardly the issue. I didn't know about any of that when I started it, but the more I read the novel, the more dissatisfying and even irresponsible it started to seem. This book caused quite a controversy when it came out in 1967, and judging from some of the reviews here and on Amazon, it's continuing to do so. ![]()
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![]() You would come up for air once in a while, say, to visit your subject’s hometown or spend time with his loved ones in order to better understand him, but the magnitude of the task would have you spending countless days working underground, both literally and metaphorically. Well, if you were Lewiston author Mark Griffin writing about Hollywood film star Rock Hudson’s life, the task would be perfectly clear: You would descend into your basement writing studio for four years to arrange and weave the pieces - glittering, tattered, mysterious - into an illumination of a life that had been waiting to be examined with the degree of care and accuracy it deserved. What would you do if the life of another were in your hands - his 59 years, 66 feature films and 124 remembrances of loved ones and colleagues? And what if that life had been an iconic yet enigmatic one, knowable only through traces and tendrils of history and hearsay? Lewiston writer Mark Griffin may know the real Rock Hudson - his stardom and his pain - better than anyone on Earth. ![]() ![]() Radek Rak, Baśń o wężowym sercu albo wtóre słowo o Jakóbie Szeli Łukasz Orbitowski and Michał Cetnarowski, Wywiad z Borutą Krzysztof Piskorski, Czterdzieści i cztery Maja Lidia Kossakowska, Grillbar Galaktyka Maja Lidia Kossakowska, Smok tańczy dla Chung Fonga Jarosław Grzędowicz, Pan Lodowego Ogrodu, tom I Rafał Aleksander Ziemkiewicz, Pieprzony los kataryniarza Since 1992, novels and short stories have been judged separately. The year given is the year of publication. In 2014, a free online e-book of the stories nominated for year 2013 was made available. Until 1991, there was a single award given for the best story since 1992, there are two categories: novel and short story. Until 1989, the award was given by Polish science fiction fan associations, voting as units since 1990, all fans present at Polcon can vote. ![]() Zajdel, in the same year, the name was changed in his memory. After the death of the first winner, Janusz A. The award was created in 1985 under the name Sfinks (not to be confused with the Sfinks Award, an award of the SFinks magazine). Instant-runoff voting with "No award" as one of the choices is the method used. Novel: works longer than 100 standard pages (of 1800 characters),.The winners are chosen in a vote by fans present at the Polcon convention from up to five nominations in each of two categories: Is the annual award given by the Polish science fiction and fantasy fandom for the best stories published in the previous year. Zajdel Award ( Nagroda imienia Janusza A. 2011 winners: Jacek Dukaj and Anna Kańtoch ![]() |