Tomorrow, February 12, is the official publication date of HUNDERT HERZEN by Eichborn Verlag. The translation was done by Jürgen Bürger, who will also shortly be publishing his translation of another of my novels, Crypt City. (It’s a big month for me in Germany.) You can visit the publisher’s site here.
The excellent translation is by Jürgen Bürger, who has formed a new publishing company called spraybooks. spraybooks will publish Crypt City in German later this year! I’m very happy to be associated with Jürgen and Doris Engelke, the other half of spraybooks and a very fine and perceptive editor.
Nice news to share. CRYPT CITY will be translated into German by Jürgen Bürger, who also did THE HUNDRED HEARTS, and has now co-founded his own company, called spraybooks, with former Lüebbe editor Doris Engelke. It will be available primarily as an ebook. There is no title or cover design yet, and it will be …
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Here’s a video of me reading at Dalhousie University’s library on Wednesday, Jan 14, 2015. Caution: there is some foul language in this reading, though I blame that on my characters. It’s not my fault they have such dirty mouths. William Kowalski reads from The Hundred Hearts from Dalhousie Libraries on Vimeo.
The East Coast Book Awards, Halifax, NS, Canada, Sep 20, 2014 L to R: William Kowalski, Don Domanski, Stephen Kimber
THE HUNDRED HEARTS has won the 2014 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, a $25,000.00 prize for the best book from Canada’s Atlantic provinces. The award is the legacy of Thomas H. Raddall, a famed Canadian writer who lived and worked in Liverpool, N.S. Begun in 1991 with a $2,000.00 endowment by the late Thomas …
Bill Thompson at The Bookcast in Washington, DC was good enough to interview me for his show recently. You can listen to the 15-minute program here.
Email from a reader. Al seems to have this effect on a lot of people. “I just finished The Hundred Hearts and had to take several deep breaths before contacting you. It’s brilliant! I laughed as much as I cried. Your characters angered me, uplifted me and made me want to walk right into your …
This is a big thrill. The Thomas H. Raddall Award is a $25,000.00 prize that goes to the author of what the judges feel is the best book produced by an Atlantic Canadian writer in the past year. In the past it’s gone to some fantastic writers, of course, and to be in their company …
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Here’s why I wrote THE HUNDRED HEARTS: because I believe that our young men and women are being lied to in order to get them to give their bodies and their lives in what they believe is the service of their country, but which is really just the service of the corporate oligarchy that is running the show.
