Medals and Prizes Constantine Cavafy

Medals and Prizes Constantine CavafyMedals and Prizes brings together eight of the best stories and novellas by John Metcalf, a virtuosic champion of the short form. Metcalf was born in Carlisle and emigrated to Canada as a young man, where both his innovations as a prose stylist and his talent as an editor are legendary. Until now, he has never been published in Britain. Spanning more than fifty years, and ranging from some of his earliest published stories to the astonishing late

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and has published numerous English translations of poems and prose by Latvian authors in periodicals and anthologies in the UK and the US

Antony Beevor

there is also the artist and poet who has explored the inner life

Mansour El Souwaim

he meditates on how the sea was abandoned when pearl-fishing ended with the discovery of synthetic pearls and oil

such as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia)

illuminating their characters and qualities

exploded cliché

Sršen has had four books of his plays

Hassan Abdallah

utterly compelling insight into the human condition