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The Southern Hemisphere • June 2020
Help select what we'll read and discuss next!
The topic is The Southern Hemisphere. This would be books both by authors from the southern hemisphere and set in the southern hemisphere. That's a huge swath so there's more than plenty to choose from, but it still gives us a unique focus. Detailed nominating and voting guidelines can be found here. Basically, nominations are open for about four days and each person may nominate up to three literary selections which will go automatically to the vote. Voting by post then opens for four days, and a voter may give each nomination either one or two votes but only has a limited number of votes to use which is equal to the number of nominations minus one. Any questions, feel free to ask. We hope that you will read the selection with us and join in the discussion. * Nominations are now complete. Initial voting is complete. Run-off voting is now open! Results through post #19-
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My first nomination is An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira. The author is Argentine and the novella is set in Argentina.
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My second is Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt. The book is set in Samoa and the author is a Samoan who later moved to New Zealand.
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My third is Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. The novel is set in South Africa, and Coetzee is a South African who later moved to Australia.
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I have one nomination to make so far.
Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895005.Owls_Do_Cry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Frame This is commonly regarded as NZ's first true novel, published in 1957, and while it is well regarded internationally in literature it does promote mixed reactions from readers. Frame's own past is troubling and as far as I can gather that is reflected in this book. I have not read any of her novels, just have intended to, except for one of her autobiographies which I read back (way back ) in student days. Last edited by AnotherCat; 06-04-2020 at 01:01 AM. |
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Interesting choices so far! I am working on mine.
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I am not sure about this one as I have a feeling that I have nominated it before and maybe books cannot be nominated twice??? Anyway, if it survives nomination it is an Australian classic which I have read way back but which I have in mind to read again.
For the Term of His Natural Life - Marcus Clarke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_th...s_Natural_Life https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...s_Natural_Life This Australian light hearted comic novel is a bit expensive in ebook and I doubt will be available in non-Australasian libraries, but I will give it a go. It is popular literature having been around and available for decades, I think one of the largest selling Australian novels ever. I have read it a couple of times over the years and could easily stand doing so again. Some of it may go over non-Australian heads but it is a fair take-off of Australia at the time and loved by those it depicts. They're a Weird Mob - John O'Grady (aka Nino Culotta) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27re_a_Weird_Mob https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...re-a-weird-mob |
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My first nomination is Patchwork by Ellen Bandu-Aaku (Zambia). Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction).
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My second nomination is The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (Peru). Winner of Premio Herralde de Novela (2005) and Premio de traducción literaria Valle Inclán for Frank Wynne (2013).
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My third nomination is American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea (Bolivia). Winner of Bolivia's National Book Prize and adapted into an award-winning film.
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I'm ok with the nomination. I am constantly asking myself did I nominate that before or did someone else... I know that we definitely have re-nominated books that have been nominated in the past.
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It was an interesting perspective to look for nominations in a hemisphere rather than country or continent. Thanks for the idea, sun surfer!
I was trying to get creative at nominating books from new locations or authors. I was surprised at how difficult it was to locate literature that had been translated into English or widely published outside of the country, especially within Africa. |
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Being a denizen of this hemisphere I was able to take a very parochial approach as a shortcut to coming up with nominations.
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Nominations are complete and voting is now open!
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