UK and US to publish final collections from Updike

Short story and poetry collections to come this summer

11 March 2009

US and UK publishers of the late John Updike are set to publish this year a final collection of his poetry and his first collection of new short fiction since 2000.

John Updike, who was a contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and  a Pulitzer Prize winner, died aged 76 on 27 January 2009, having written over 50 books written over as many years.

His short story collection, My Father's Tears, will be published this summer. In the stories Updike returns to Pennsylvania where he spent his childhood as well as covering his travels to Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy and India.

The final collection of poems, Endpoint, was completed in the final months of his life and will be published this April in the US. 

Updike's UK publisher (Penguin) also hopes to publish the poetry collection which is said to have a strong autobiographical element. They are also planning a special Updike issue of its literary magazine, Five Dials.

For more see Guardian website.

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