"THE SUNFLOWER CRIES" IS BEST BOOK OF 2005
The Saidercrayan Academy of Literature and Poetry (SALP) has distinguished Jonathan Urkle's "The Sunflower Cries" with the Henry Nesswick Award. The distinction, traditionally confered at the national Day of the Arts, honours the best book published by a Saidercrayan in the passed year.
"The Sunflower Cries" has prevailed against Linda O'Fredric's anti-racist "The Golden River" and recently naturalized Hou Su Kim's "Inside Earth", telling the true story of a miner who survives a mine disaster.
"The Sunflower Cries", Urkle's fourth book, portrays Paul Smith, a 43 year-old teacher who can´t overcome the death of his wife Joan who dies in a plane crash. In the end, he commits suicide while holding a sunflower, his wife´s favourite flower. The jury lauded that Urkle "treats his topic very sensitively. The lines are full comprehension and an experience of life which you wouldn´t have expected to find within a book of a 31 year-old author. The author succeeds in making the reader identify with a suicidal, depressive person and writes about death in a way which is far away from the kitsch or the sensationalism many other novels about death have."
Urkle, son of a lawyer and a psychologist, was very surprised about the distinction. In his speech, he announced that he "will continue to write about issues our modern society likes to forget, about the sad sides of our world. I´ve written a book about rape ["Julia's Last Happy Day"], one about a casual ["The Road with the Yellow House"], one about mobbing ["We Don´t Like You"] and now one about death. But there are many more sad things outside there who deserve to be dealt with. In the interest of all those who have to suffer every day, we mustn´t ignore those sad realities." He has already begun to write his next book - about a group of teenagers addicted to drugs. Obviously, our best author of 2005 keeps his word.
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"The Sunflower Cries" has prevailed against Linda O'Fredric's anti-racist "The Golden River" and recently naturalized Hou Su Kim's "Inside Earth", telling the true story of a miner who survives a mine disaster.
"The Sunflower Cries", Urkle's fourth book, portrays Paul Smith, a 43 year-old teacher who can´t overcome the death of his wife Joan who dies in a plane crash. In the end, he commits suicide while holding a sunflower, his wife´s favourite flower. The jury lauded that Urkle "treats his topic very sensitively. The lines are full comprehension and an experience of life which you wouldn´t have expected to find within a book of a 31 year-old author. The author succeeds in making the reader identify with a suicidal, depressive person and writes about death in a way which is far away from the kitsch or the sensationalism many other novels about death have."
Urkle, son of a lawyer and a psychologist, was very surprised about the distinction. In his speech, he announced that he "will continue to write about issues our modern society likes to forget, about the sad sides of our world. I´ve written a book about rape ["Julia's Last Happy Day"], one about a casual ["The Road with the Yellow House"], one about mobbing ["We Don´t Like You"] and now one about death. But there are many more sad things outside there who deserve to be dealt with. In the interest of all those who have to suffer every day, we mustn´t ignore those sad realities." He has already begun to write his next book - about a group of teenagers addicted to drugs. Obviously, our best author of 2005 keeps his word.
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