20 Under 40

"20 Under 40" is a list of promising writers, created by The New Yorker, who may presumably gain even more attention in the future of literature. It is necessary to add that similar list has been composed a decade ago, in 1999. More information about current list may be obtained after reading yesterday's article, 20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others, in The New York Times.

Starting from next Monday, eight writers will appear in special double edition of The New Yorker magazine. The rest will be publishing constantly, one by one, each week during the course of summer. I think it would be great if a separate book of short stories of those authors will be compiled by the magazine.

Last but not least, the most exciting thing and fact is that one writer in the list, Jonathan Safran Foer, was translated into Ukrainian. His novel Everything is Illuminated was translated by Rostyslav Semkiv and published by Fakt (Fact in English) publishing house in 2005.