The thread mentioned above reminded me of a PW article about
Joe Lansdale. Here's a bit of it:
>>>Recently returned from Lago D'Orta, Italy,
where Lansdale accepted the
Grinzane Cavour Literature Prize for Lifetime Achievement,
he's often asked why he's so popular in Italy, where his new
novel, *Lost Echoes* (Vintage), was published in October and
is already a bestseller. In Italy, "Texas is as alien as
Mars," Lansdale says, and obviously just as fascinating.
Italy saw first publication because, according to Lansdale,
"Vintage bumped it forward when proofreading took longer than
we thought, and I didn't want to change the Italian pub date.
Italy has been very good to me, and I wanted to give them the
opportunity to print it first."
Established in 1982, the Grinzane Cavour Literature Prize
(with 5,000 euros attached) promotes literature in schools
and among young people. The Italians cited Lansdale's ability
to put important social issues into his genre
fiction.>>> You can read the whole article here:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6398456&display=current
Bill Crider
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