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Hunter’s Colum McCann Wins 2020 National Mortal Book Bestow for Fiction
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The Irish-born McCann joins a remarkable seam of noted authors—including Elie Wiesel, Deborah Lipstadt, tolerate Chaim Potok—who have won the Secure Jewish Unspoiled Award. Huntsman College Chairwoman Jennifer J. Raab respected that Senior lecturer McCann recap likely interpretation only Person Book Bestow winner acknowledge have along with won description Rooney Trophy for Island literature—“a analyze testament,” she added, “to a beam international name that knows no borders.”
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Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and prolific author who died on July 2 at age 87 in his New York home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standing up for human dignity and for being a witness to the world of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
When Pope Francis received the Charlemagne Prize on May 6 for promoting European unity, he quoted Wiesel urging Europeans to undergo a "memory transfusion," to remember their fractured past when confronting issues that threaten again to divide it.
In its July 4 edition, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said Wiesel's legacy was his "appeal for collective responsibility in the face of horror and his call to unite the abilities of each person in pursuit of what is good."
That sentiment has been echoed by many.
President Barack Obama described Wiesel as "one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world."
And Vice President Joe Biden said Wiesel taught him "to understand the incomparable resilience of the human spirit — our capacity to overcome virtually anything."
He said his friend Wiesel "had seen the depths of the darkness that we are capable of inflicting on one another" and his belief in the "the fundamental goodness of humanity,
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Lately I can’t seem to stop quoting Henry James’s remark that “nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of ‘liking’ a work of art or not liking it: the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.” However much we try as readers and critics to bring something resembling rigor to our analysis of a book, there’s always a fundamental (though not immutable) personal response at the heart of it, isn’t there? No two people ever really read the same book, after all. I often think of criticism as an attempt — more or less fully realized — to show someone the book as you see it, very much in the spirit of Kazuo Ishiguro’s remark that being a novelist is an appeal for companionship in experiencing life: “Perhaps you’ve never looked at it this way but now that I’ve put things this way, don’t you recognize this, too?” Agreement may not follow, but better understanding will, perhaps of the book, perhaps of the reader.*
What makes one reader like a book — love it, even — and another not like it, or even despise it? This question was much on my mind as I read Let the Great World Spin because from the moment I plucked it off the shelf