of good, which reduces it to the idea of usefulness. Kant distinguished the supreme good from the absolute good. The former is good will and moral virtue; and latter requires that virtue be combined with happiness. Thereafter the concept of the good gradually lost its significance and, from ...
Commonwealth Writers, the branch of the Commonwealth Foundation that organized the prize, instead directed its resources to a short story award created in 2012. Notable winners of the prize included Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Rohinton Mistry, J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie, Zadie ...
“Choosing finalists for the INDIES is always the highlight of our year, but the job is very difficult due to the high quality of submissions,” said Victoria Sutherland, founder/publisher of Foreword Reviews. “Each new book award season proves again how independent publishers are the real inn...
His work has won several awards, including the African Literature Association’s Book of the Year Award for Creative Writing, two regional Commonwealth Writers Prizes for Best First Book and Best Book, and the IPPY Gold Award for Adult Multicultural Fiction. His other awards include the Afrique ...
Kim Leine’s award-winning and bestselling The Prophets of Eternal Fjord, translated by Martin Aitken, tells the story of Morten Falch, an eighteenth-century Danish missionary who travels to Greenland to spread the gospel to the Inuit. Ambitious and earnest, yet riddled with doubts and secret ...
Now, when I opened the "wisdom of children", read Chinese and foreign children the essence of wisdom, watching with my age children good and evil deeds, his heart will gush a excited, a feeling: yes! It is this book that taught me how to behave and how to overcome difficulties with ...
Pump Up Your Book Trailer Of The Week: Ring of Rosin by Nancy Golden #BookTrailer #BookTeaser *** We’re happy to announce Nancy Golden’s Ring of Rosin Book Teaser Trailer is this week’s PUYB Trailer of the Week! *** About the Book Many, many years ago, a wondrous bird flew in...
I’ve so rarely enjoyed the award-winning books I’ve read that I’ve come to the personal feeling that literary awards are given for a book’s form more than for their stories. I continue to feel that way with Stephen Dixon’s Interstate. The very basic story: a man is driving ...
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Laurien Berenson is an Agatha and Macavity Nominee, winner of the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, and four-time winner of the Maxwell Award, presented by the Dog Writers Association of America. She and her husband live on a farm in Kentucky surrounded by dogs and horses. Her latest...