House of the Dragon Release Date Announced
HBO’s long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel finally has a release date. The network has announced that House of the Dragon will premiere on August 21st. Set roughly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon tells the story of House Targaryen and stars Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, and Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen.
8 Authors Receive the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize
The winners of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize have been announced. The award, which is one of the world’s richest at $165,000 per recipient, is now in its 10th year. The $165k grants are intended “to support [the authors’] writing and allow them to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.” This year’s eight winners are Tsitsi Dangarembga, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Margo Jefferson, Emmanuel Iduma, Winsome Pinnock, Sharon Bridgforth, Wong May, and Zaffar Kunial. When Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga found out she had been chosen the Windham-Campbell prize, she admitted she had been waiting for this news all of her life. She said: “I desperately needed this award, as a writer working on the African continent. Few countries support creativity or the arts in a meaningful manner. Zimbabwe is amongst those that do so least.”
Here’s A First Look at Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han’s first YA romance book trilogy The Summer I Turned Pretty is being adapted for TV, and Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the upcoming Amazon Prime series. “Oh my gosh, I have such butterflies about it because my readers have been waiting for so long,” said Han, who is also serving as showrunner and executive producer on the project. “I just really want them to feel satisfied by the long wait and feel like the story has come to life in the way that they were hoping for. I hope fans swoon a lot. The first time I walked on set, I cried.”
Lualhati Bautista Might Become the First Filipina to be Published by Penguin Classics
In a white- and male-dominated classics genre, authors of color are starting to get off the sidelines, including Filipina writer Lualhati Bautista.