Paul Verhaeghen takes part in Jewish Book Week 2009

Paul Verhaeghen will take part in the Jewish Book Week 2009.

Jewish Book Week, held at Bloomsbury's Royal National Hotel (London), has made its mark as a bold and broad feast of literary treats. This year's events, Saturday 21 February to Sunday 1 March, will include a very prestigious international programme.

Paul Verhaeghen is the author of the epic novel Omega minor. The English translation is published by Dalkey Archive Press. Verhaeghen received the Independent Foreign Fiction prize for Omega minor. The novel is or will be translated in German (Eichborn), English (Dalkey Archive Press), French (Le Cherche Midi), Greek (Polis Publishers) and Hungarian (Gondolat). Omega minor is also nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.