Tim Parks @TimParksauthor
Joined November 2014-
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thegreatestbooks.org deploys “a specialized algorithm” to bring together “658 ‘best of’ book lists to form a definitive guide”. Crime and Punishment comes in eleventh, Winnie the Pooh 161st, The Betrothed 273rd, Normal People 1,198th. @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-featur…
Curious to see my piece Sleepless in Sofia @Harpers published in the Tamil magazine Amrudha. Many thanks to the translator Muthuprakash Ravindran.
Thanks for this! Good to be read in Slovakia!
Thanks for this! Good to be read in Slovakia!
Good to see someone enjoying The Novel, A Survival Skill...
Good to see someone enjoying The Novel, A Survival Skill...
"It was always the moment of reading, letting the text speak, that grabbed me, never the discussion of supposed themes, political issues." @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-featur…
Here's the whole piece, by request...
'I honestly can’t think of any books important to me that seem designed to instil confidence in the future of humanity.' Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor): Teaching Eng Lit in Italian classrooms the-tls.com/regular-featur…
'the problem may lie in confusing literature with content'
'the problem may lie in confusing literature with content'
A few reflections on teaching literature... the-tls.com/regular-featur…
#BookRecommendation: A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks 'There are many ways of touring the land that Italians, following Dante, call il bel paese, and Parks is as perceptive a guide as could be wished.' TLS almabooks.com/alma-author/ti… @TimParksauthor #books #bookstoread
Some one just drew my attention to this review of The Hero's Way, which I missed. Since these were the days of that hot long walk it seems a good time to post it... theamericanscholar.org/companions-thr…
'A writer also makes sense in relation to other writers. As the years went by, I would come across premonitions or echoes of Beckett in others.' Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor): My lifelong love of Samuel Beckett the-tls.com/regular-featur…
The library LPs were notoriously scratchy. Through a storm of crackles came a deep Irish voice – “I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.” the-tls.com/regular-featur… @TheTLS
"I took advantage of being at the seaside to lay in a store of sucking stones." the-tls.com/regular-featur… @TheTLS
Translation prizes, by popular request...
Since the shortlists we chose were expected to be as inclusive as the judging panels – the one a kind of mirror of the other – it was hardly surprising if occasionally one felt we’d been employed in a bureaucratic procedure of matching books to slots. the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…
'The fact that you enjoy a foreign novel in English does not necessarily mean it was well translated.' Tim Parks (@TimParksauthor): Judging the merits of literary juries the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…
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