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CATFISHING ON CATNET remporte le prix Edgar Award for Young Adult Fiction 2020

Le prix Edgar Award dans la catégorie Young Adult a été attribué à Naomi Kritzer pour son roman CATFISHING ON CATNET. Ce prix prestigieux est décerné chaque année à un roman policier par l’organisme Mystery Writers of America.

Le livre a également obtenu le Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Literature. L’auteure avait déjà été la lauréate des prix Hugo Award et Locus Award en 2015 avec sa nouvelle “Cat Pictures Please”, également sélectionnée pour le Nebula Award.

CATFISHING ON CATNET   est paru en novembre 2019 chez Tor Teen aux Etats-Unis. La suite, CHAOS ON CATNET, paraîtra en 2021. Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

SONGS IN URSA MAJOR bientôt adapté au cinéma

Les droits audiovisuels de SONGS IN URSA MAJOR viennent d’être vendus à Village Roadshow Pictures pour une adaptation long métrage. C’est l’auteure Emma Brodie elle-même qui écrira le scénario du film.

Si SONGS IN URSA MAJOR s’inspire de la relation amoureuse qui unit les deux musiciens folk Joni Mitchell et James Taylor en 1971, c’est avant tout une déchirante histoire d’amour, de rivalité, de résilience, de dépendance, de perte et bien sûr de musique. Le roman paraîtra en juin 2021 chez Knopf aux Etats-Unis : retrouvez notre présentation ici.

Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

Les conseils de lecture de Paulette Jiles

Dans l’article « Paulette Jiles on Little Women, All the Pretty Horses, and Hating Balzac » qui vient d’être publié sur le site américain Lit Hub, l’auteure de Simon the Fiddler nous parle de treize livres qui l’ont marquée.

Paulette Jiles est l’auteure de Cousins, une autobiographie, et des romans Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, et News of the World qui a été finaliste pour le National Book Award 2016 et publié en français aux édition de la Table Ronde (Des nouvelles du monde, mai 2018, traduction de Jean Esch). Elle vit dans un ranch près de San Antonio, au Texas.

Son nouveau roman Simon the Fiddler vient de paraître aux Etats-Unis chez William Morrow. Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

DEADMAN’S CASTLE de Iain Lawrence

How would you feel if you and your family had to keep moving and changing names just to keep one step ahead of a man bent on revenge?

DEADMAN’S CASTLE
by Iain Lawrence
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House, Spring 2021
(chez Browne & Miller – voir catalogue)

Ever since twelve-year-old Igor’s dad witnessed and reported a terrible crime, his family has been on the run from the Lizard Man, a foreboding figure bent on retribution. They’ve lived in so many places, with so many identities, ready to bug-out at a moment’s notice, Igor can’t even remember his real name. He’s been homeschooled since they’ve been on the run, but now that he’s twelve, he longs to go to school and make friends. When the witness protection program finds his family yet another new place to live, Igor rebels and his father reluctantly lets him go to school, admonishing him to always come straight home. But as Igor finds a place for himself and makes friends, it gets harder and harder to keep secrets from them. Chafing under his father’s rules, Igor rebels and looks for answers. But when the Lizard Man comes knocking, he’s after Igor, not his dad, and he also ensnares Igor’s new friends. In Deadman’s Castle, nothing is quite what it seems, and danger is lurking around every corner. How they escape and end the cycle of fear and flight makes for a page-turner sure to grab young readers with a taste for mystery and adventure.

Iain Lawrence is a journalist and the author of many acclaimed novels, including Ghost Boy, The Skeleton Tree, Lord of the Nutcracker Men, and the High Seas Trilogy: The Wreckers, The Smugglers, and The Buccaneers. He is the author of fifteen books for young readers and has received many accolades, among them the Governor General’s Award and the California Young Reader Medal. He lives in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada.

THE WORLD GIVES WAY de Marissa Levien

An unforgettable portrait of a society in freefall, and finding humanity even at the end of it all. Darkly beautiful, bursting with soul and imagination, this stunning sci-fi debut is Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles meets Ted Chiang meets Melancholia, for the literary reader who loves genre-busting, speculative character-driven dramas set “five minutes into the future.”

THE WORLD GIVES WAY
by Marissa Levien
Redhook/Hachette US, September 2021

THE WORLD GIVES WAY is set on a generation ship carrying those wealthy enough have escaped Earth—and the contract workers bound to serve them for the ship’s two-hundred-year journey. Myrra Dal was born an indentured worker on this ship, but her generation will live to see the journey’s end and the expiration of their contracts; she just has to spend the next fifty years serving the powerful Carlyles first. But when Myrra discovers the catastrophic secret the elites have been harboring, everything changes. There’s a crack in the ship’s hull, and everyone on board has two months left to live—if that. Burdened with the secret of a lifetime, and the Carlyles’ infant daughter, she runs—but someone is hot on her trail, and not even the end of the world can stop him.

Marissa Levien is a recent graduate of Stony Brook University’s MFA program. Her work has been published in Slice, LARB PubLab, The Toast, and featured on Glimmer Train‘s Honorable Mentions List. She lives in New York.