Congratulations to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature today. His beautiful novel Snow, from a couple years ago, is so worth reading. And Cris really liked his other novel, My Name Is Red, too. I hope this makes it possible for other novels of his to be translated and published in English. Only about 40% of his output is available now. See his NYT author page for reviews and first chapters of his books.
Speaking of books, let's move on to look at a few recent deals for "debut fiction," as classified by Publishers Marketplace:
Well, we seem to have another theme going in two out of three of the books. Big families.
As for the third book, it seems a little out of place in the "debut fiction" category, just for its genre; stuff like this is usually classified as genre fiction and not in "debut fiction" per se. But let's not be a snob about it. I'm having a hard enough time moving out of genre writing myself.
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