L’auteur de la « Trilogie new-yorkaise » a été primé pour son dernier ouvrage, 4321, qui vient d’être publié par Actes Sud. 4321 est un roman fleuve qui raconte les quatre vies possibles d’un même personnage et de sa famille.
Vendredi 12 janvier, Paul Auster a été l’invité d’Augustin Trapenard dans Boomerang. Vous pouvez (ré)-écouter l’émission en cliquant sur le bouton « play » ci-dessous
Les deux auteurs co-écriront DARKDEEP, une trilogie de suspense horrifique pour les jeunes lecteurs, dans la lignée de « Stranger Things » et « The Goonies ».
Les ouvrages d’Ally Condie sont publiés en France par Gallimard Jeunesse, alors que Brendan Reichs est connu pour ses livres co-écrits avec sa mère, l’anthropologue judiciaire et romancière Kathy Reichs (XO éditions).
Le film sera tiré de la biographie A BOY NAMED SHEL, écrite par Lisa Rogak, et James Franco y jouera aussi le rôle principal.
Les livres pour enfants de Shel Silverstein se sont vendus à plus de 20 millions d’exemplaires dans le monde entier. L’annonce du film a été publiée par Variety.com et Deadline.com.
En France, les droits pour la biographie de Lisa Rogak sont toujours disponibles :
The first-ever biography of Shel Silverstein, whose books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide
A BOY NAMED SHEL
The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein
by Lisa Rogak
St. Martin’s Griffin, March 2009
Few authors are as beloved as Shel Silverstein. His inimitable drawings and comic poems have become the bedtime staples of millions of children and their parents, but few readers know much about the man behind that wild-eyed, bearded face peering out from the backs of dust jackets.
In A Boy Named Shel, Lisa Rogak tells the full story of a life as antic and adventurous as any of his creations. A man with an incurable case of wanderlust, Shel kept homes on both coasts and many places in between—and enjoyed regular stays in the Playboy Mansion. Everywhere he went he charmed neighbors, made countless friends, and romanced almost as many women with his unstoppable energy and never-ending wit.
His boundless creativity brought him fame and fortune—neither of which changed his down-to-earth way of life—and his children’s books sold millions of copies. But he was much more than « just » a children’s writer. He collaborated with anyone who crossed his path, and found success in a wider range of genres than most artists could ever hope to master. He penned hit songs like « A Boy Named Sue » and « The Unicorn. » He drew cartoons for Stars & Stripes and got his big break with Playboy. He wrote experimental plays and collaborated on scripts with David Mamet. With a seemingly unending stream of fresh ideas, he worked compulsively and enthusiastically on a wide array of projects up until his death, in 1999.
Drawing on wide-ranging interviews and in-depth research, Rogak gives fans a warm, enlightening portrait of an artist whose imaginative spirit created the poems, songs, and drawings that have touched the lives of so many children—and adults.
Lisa Rogak is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, published in more than two dozen languages.
Le site internet Deadline.com l’a annoncé officiellement après la vidéo postée par John Green sur Youtube :
Le film sera produit par Temple Hill avec John Green comme producteur exécutif.
Voici donc une bonne nouvelle pour ce roman YA dont les droits ont été cédés dans 12 Pays (US, Royaume Uni, Espagne, Italie, Brésil, Grèce, Israël, Hongrie, République Tchèque, Pologne, Russie et Turquie), souvent après enchères ou en préempte. Le réalisateur et le casting n’ont pas encore été annoncés.
Sold in a heated 9-bidder auction, Jennifer Donnelly’s STEPSISTER is a fairy tale for the 21st century in which the very essence of happily ever after is up for grabs
STEPSISTER
by Jennifer Donnelly
Scholastic, Spring 2019
STEPSISTER begins with the bloody conclusion of the Brothers Grimm Cinderella as the ugly stepsisters obey their mother’s command to cut off their toes in order to fit into the glass slipper. Isabelle, Cinderella’s “wicked and hideous” sibling, emerges from the margins of our known narrative to reveal the sadness and trauma that created her family’s infamously cruel dynamic. Jennifer frames her alternate version of the fairy tale with a showdown between the three Fates and Chance who battle over the direction of Isabelle’s life. This battle continues as Isabelle begins to reclaim the person she was before her mistreatment of her stepsister defined her entire being. As hardships abound, it becomes clear that Isabelle cannot merely wish for transcendence—she must fight for it.
This is the novel that Jennifer Donnelly has been waiting her entire career to write. STEPSISTER combines the beautiful writing, rich historical setting and unforgettable characters that made “A Northern Light” a Carnegie Medal winner and Printz Honor book with the fantastical world that Jennifer created in “Lost in a Book”, her original take on Beauty & The Beast, which spent almost 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 125,000 copies since its release earlier this year.
Book #2 will be another fairy tale and will be published by Scholastic on Spring 2020.