2008: a year in books This year had all the ingredients for a good novel: fake memoirs, a firebombing, a Booker winner who wasn't and JK Rowling up in court. Michelle Pauli charts the year in books
"The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl said. "That ignorance is restraining."
Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the centre of the literary world ... not the United States