The Reading Life Review - July - Paris in July -

 This month I created two collages, one for authors that were included in my participation in Paris in July 2021 and one for the remaining authors 

Paris in July 2021 Authors

Column One

1. Nina Barberova - Russian Émigré - Paris - first appearance 
2. Gaito Gizdanona - Russian Émigré - Paris - cabdriver at night, prolific writer, broadcast journalist  - first appearance 
3. Joie Davidon- USA - author of An Unconventional Marriage focusing on Ivan Turgenev and an opera singer - first appearance 

Column Two

1. Yury Felsen - Russian Émigré - Paris - murdered at Auschwitz - first appearance 
2. Linda Lappin. - USA -Linda Lappin is the prize-winning author of four novels: The Etruscan (Wynkin deWorde, 2004), Katherine’s Wish (Wordcraft, 2008), Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery (Pleasureboat Studio, 2013), and Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne (Serving House Books, 2020). She won the Daphne Du Maurier Award from Romance Writers of America in 2014.She is also the author of The Soul of Place: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci (Travelers Tales, 2015), which won a Nautilus Award in the category of creativity in 2015. A former Fulbright scholar to Italy, she has lived mainly in Rome for over thirty years. Her websiteis www.lindalappin.net.
3. Irina Odoevtseva - Russian Émigré - Paris - first appearance 

Column Three

1. J’nell Ciesielei - USA - Author The Ice Swan - first appearance 
2. Charles Belfloure - USA - Author The Paris Architect - a WW Two in Paris novel - first appearance 
3. Craig Carlson - USA - author Pancakes in Paris - NY Times best seller about opening an American style restaurant in Paris - first  appearance 
4. Teffi - Russian Émirgé - Paris. Very prolific Short story writer 

Column Four

1. Elizabeth Thompson- USA - Author Lost in Paris - first appearance 
2. Ivan Bunin- Russian Émigré - Paris - 1933 Nobel Prize Winner
3. Irene Nemirovsky - Ukraine to France - murdered at Auschwitz 
4. Catherine McNamara - Catherine McNamara grew up in Sydney, ran away to Paris to write, and ended up in Ghana co-running a bar. On the way she lived in Milan, Mogadishu and Brussels, working as a translator, graphic designer, teacher, art gallery director, shoe model, mother. The Cartography of Others was a finalist in the People’s Book Prize (UK) and won the Eyelands International Fiction Award (Greece). Pelt and Other Stories was a semi- finalist in the Hudson Prize (USA) and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award (Ireland). Her short fiction has been Pushcart-nominated and published widely. Catherine lives in a farmhouse in northern Italy.

Other July authors 

Other July Authors

Row 1

1. Valentin Katayey - Soviet era Russian satirical writer - first appearsnce 
2. Mikhail Bulgakov - Russia 
3. Gregg Mitman - USA- Empire of Rubber- Firestone’s Struggle for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman - 2021- first appearsnce 
4. Vyacheslav Shishkov - Russian satrical writer 1920s - first appearsnce 

Row 2

1. Hiromi Kanata. Japan - Author Strange Weather in Tokyo. Multi- Award Winner .First Appearance 
2. Jo Walton. Prolific S/f writer - Jo Walton has published fourteen novels, most recently Lent. She has also published three poetry collections, two essay collections and a short story collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012,  and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Non Fiction award for What Makes This Book So Great. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the food and books are much better. She gets bored easily so she tends to write books that are different from each other. She also reads a lot, enjoys travel, talking about books, and eating great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.  From http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/about-jo-walton/
3. David Benioff - USA - City of Thieves- first appearance 

Row 3

1. Pat O’Connor - Ireland - Pat O’Connor lives in Limerick in the southwest of Ireland. He was a joint winner of the 2009 Best Start Short Story Competition in Glimmertrain, and in 2010  he was shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain International Short Story Prize. In 2011, he was shortlisted for the RTE Francis MacManus Award for radio stories, and won the Sean O’Faolain Prize. In 2012 he was shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and the Fish Short Story prize.  In 2013 he was longlisted for Over the Edge New Writer of the Year
2. Yevgeny Zamyatin - Russia - satire from The 1920s - First appearance 
3. Steve Wade - Ireland - About the Author - Steve Wade’s award-winning short fiction has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies. His work has been broadcast on national and regional radio. He has had stories short-listed for the Francis McManus Short Story Competitionand for the Hennessy Award. His stories have appeared in over fifty print publications, including Crannog, New Fables, and Aesthetica Creative Works Annual. His unpublished novel, On Hikers’ Hill was awarded First Prize in the abook2read.com competition, with Sir Tim Rice as the top judge. He has won First Prize in the Delvin Garradrimna Short Story Competition on a number of occasions 

Author data

Birth Countries of Authors 

1. Russia - 11
2. USa - 7
3. Ireland - 2
4. Australia - 1
5. Japan - 1
6. UK - 1

Women - 11

Men - 12

Dead - 11

Living 12

13 Authors were featured for the first time in July 

Blog Stats

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Top home countries of Visitors for July

1. Sweden
2. USA
3. Russia
4. India
5. Phillippines 
6. Germsny
7. Canada
8. UK.

Out of The ten most viewed posts,eight were on Short stories 

In July there are posts on 21 short stories, 7 novels,and one work of non- fiction 

I resd two books i did not post upon

1. Silk Roads: A New History of The World by Peter Frankpan
2. The City we Became- A Novel by N.K.Jemisin

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