Biblioasis

The Barefoot Bingo Caller Wins Book of the Year in Translation in Lithuania

~ Antanas Sileika

I was at the Vilnius book fair again this year to launch my new novel, called Provisionally Yours in English and translated as Laikinai jūsų by the publisher, Baltos Lankos. It was a wonderful time as usual there. See the cover below:

 

But my memoir, The Barefoot Bingo Caller in English, and Basakojis bingo pranešėjas in Lithuanian, also published by Baltos Lankos, had been short-listed for book of the year there in the adult category. And it won! Here is  a photo, of my receiving that award.

 

And finally, I launch my new novel in English in Toronto on March 19. Here is some news about that:

 

Fall 2018 Update

~ Antanas Sileika

Here are a few upcoming events:

My next novel , Provisionally Yours, an espionage novel set in Kaunas in 1921, has a publication date of March 19, 2019. There is a little bit of information and a tentative cover below.

The Lithuanian translation will actually show up a month earlier at the Vilnius Book Fair.

Here are some of the events that I’ll be taking part in through fall of 2018.

September 21, 7 PM. Interview with author Dubravka Ugresic on the occasion of her new novel, Fox.

September 23, I’ll be speaking at Word on The Street on the subject of creative writing.

October 27, I’ll be speaking at Guernica Press at the International Festival of Authors.

.November – December 2018 – I’ll try to stay in as much as possible to do a second draft of a novel in progress, whose working title is Skylark and Badger. I do some of my best concentrated work at the Toronto Writers’ Centre.