Institution: | Paul West's most recent novel, The Immensity of the Here and Now;, won a Pushcart Prize in 2003. In the same year he attended a symposium on his work in Tours, France, at the François Rabelais University. A long chapter was devoted to him in Elizabeth Costello, J. M. Coetzee's Nobel-winning novel for 2003. A new book of essays, Sheer Fiction IV, will appear this year. |