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Sure wish I'd thought of that
Dave's Fiction Warehouse | July 12th 2008 by Dave Knadler
As a writer, my problem is this: When I have a good story, I can never come up with a good title. And when I have a good title, it always seems to arrive without the story.Well, that's one of my problems. The others include writing at about the same read more
Interviews with CWA shortlist picks
Detectives Beyond Borders | June 6th 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
The U.K.'s Crime Writers Association has announced the shortlists for its Dagger awards, which are to be presented in London next month.The lists include two subjects of 2008 Detectives Beyond Borders interviews: Sian Reynolds, nominated with Fred Va read more
And one winner more!
Detectives Beyond Borders | May 27th 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
A Colorado reader knew that Fred Vargas takes Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his colleagues to Canada in Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand. She wins a copy of Vargas' latest novel, This Night's Foul Work, which takes Adamsberg to — but th read more
Celebrate Awards Week with one more free book by Fred Vargas
Detectives Beyond Borders | May 22nd 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
An extra copy of Fred Vargas' This Night's Foul Work has arrived at Detectives Beyond Borders, which means you have one more chance to win!Three celebrated crime novels by three much-honored authors have just had or are about to have their U.S. paper read more
We have a winner!
Detectives Beyond Borders | May 22nd 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
A discerning reader in British Columbia knew that fears of the plague, also known as the Black Death, spark the action in Fred Vargas' Have Mercy on Us All.His knowledge wins him a copy of Vargas' newest novel, This Night's Foul Work. Thanks to all w read more
Slow authors and fast authors
Detectives Beyond Borders | March 2nd 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
I've recently finished one crime novel by the queen of slow buildups and started another by a writer who can't sit still. The slow writer is Fred Vargas, apt to open a novel with her protagonist stirred by a broken furnace to far-flung contemplation read more
Seeking Whom He May Devour
Novelish | February 26th 2008 by Thorn
Author: Fred Vargas ISBN: 9780743284028 Many of Vargas’ novels involve a myth or legend that comes up in modern times, which seems to be a really effective way of adding to the atmosphere regardless of whether the myth or legend turns out to be read more
Fred Vargas' physical and human geography
Detectives Beyond Borders | February 26th 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
I wrote a few months ago about Fred Vargas' keen and amused interest in the physical and human geography of her native country. My comment concerned Seeking Whom He May Devour and its road trip through southeastern France, but I could as easily have read more
Fred fest
Detectives Beyond Borders | February 11th 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
Euro Crime is marking the UK release of Fred Vargas' latest novel, This Night's Foul Work, with a roundup of everything the Euro Crime stable of reviewers has had to say about the Vargases translated into English to date. That's eleven reviews of fiv read more
Viva Vargas!
Detectives Beyond Borders | February 1st 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
I try as a rule to avoid those debates about whether crime fiction is real literature or not, but I did enjoy the headline on an old newspaper article that I found this evening through the Detectives literarios blog. The article, from the Spanish new read more
Sian Reynolds: An interview with Fred Vargas' translator, Part II
Detectives Beyond Borders | January 31st 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
In Part II of our interview, Sian Reynolds discusses the challenges of rendering colloquial French into colloquial English and her approach to a text she is about to translate. She also reveals that readers can look forward to at least one more Fred read more
An interview with Fred Vargas' translator – Sian Reynolds, Part…
Detectives Beyond Borders | January 30th 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
Sian Reynolds is the only translator to win a Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association. In fact, she is the only two translators to win the award. She and Fred Vargas received the first Duncan Lawrie International Dagger in 2006 for Vargas' novel T read more
Fred Vargas on film and a pair of questions for readers
Detectives Beyond Borders | January 25th 2008 by Peter Rozovsky
I've just found this trailer for a movie version of Fred Vargas' Have Mercy On Us All. (The movie bears the novel's original French title, Pars vite et reviens tard.) If this short trailer is an accurate guide, the movie plays up the novel's thriller read more
The things a translator has to cope with
Detectives Beyond Borders | November 26th 2007 by Peter Rozovsky
I`ve admired the work of Siân Reynolds, translator from French into English of the crime novelist Fred Vargas and the historian Fernand Braudel. In particular, I liked a note that Reynolds appended to Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand, her Dagger-w read more
Paris, city of crime
Detectives Beyond Borders | November 25th 2007 by Peter Rozovsky
What started with Poe and continued with Humphrey Bogart and David Goodis continues to this day. France still loves American crime fiction. The French movie version of Gil Brewer's novel 13 French Street opens this week.Also on the cultural agenda: A read more
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