In this interview, the author-who was on WLT’s list of 60 essential English-language works from modern India-discusses the positive impact of winning a literary prize. This week on the Race Matters radio show, novelist Rilla Askew sheds light on the Tulsa Race Riot and continued racial violence in America.Īnuradha Roy has catapulted into the limelight after winning the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. The 2016 PEN literary awards shortlists were announced this week. He was one of the most widely translated Slovenian authors, he received numerous accolades, and his essay “In Praise of the Republic of Letters” was WLT’s reader’s choice winning essay in 2012. Slovenian author Aleš Debeljak died last week. This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership. Through brief yet poignant messages squeezed onto three-inch open-faced squares, mother and daughter revealed themselves, sharing secrets, taking risks, and ultimately building a bond like no other.Ī heartfelt, inspiring tribute to both Caroline's adoptive parents and her biological mother, Postcards from Cookie illuminates the enduring power of love to shape and guide our lives.Image: MyBookmark/Etsy News, Reviews, and Interviews The constancy, volume, and intimacy of her steady correspondence with Cookie filled the days and distance between them. The woman who gave her life was none other than Carole "Cookie" Cole, the daughter of iconic crooner and pianist Nat King Cole.ĭrawing on details provided by the agency and her own investigative skills, Caroline embarked on a life-changing journey of discovery that stretched from coast to coast, forged through e-mail, phone calls, and post cards. Caroline's birth mother and her family were related to a friend. Though Spence-Chapin Family Service, the agency that handled her adoption, could not reveal the name of her birth mother, it was able to provide details that lead to a shocking truth. While she wondered about her biological parents, she kept her curiosity in check, until a series of small health problems raised concerns about her genetic heritage and its consequences for her two children's lives and her own. Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother-Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole-and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards.Ĭaroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful, secret, and sealed.
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