Prix Médicis
They've announced the winners of this year's prix Médicis, with the main prize going to Ann d'Angleterre by Julia Deck; see, for example, the Livres Hebdo report. See also the Seuil...
View ArticleCan Xue profile
At The World of Chinese Dylan Levi King profiles Can Xue: The Experimental Voice of Chinese Literature.
View Article'The Essay that Launched the Loebs'
At Antigone they publish W.H.D. Rouse's Machines or Mind ? -- "commissioned for the newly-founded Loeb Classical Library Series, of which he was an editor". Several Loeb titles are under...
View ArticleGoldsmiths Prize
They've announced that Parade, by Rachel Cusk, "has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for mould-breaking fiction". I haven't seen this yet, but see, for example, the publicity pages at...
View ArticleRushdie's The Satanic Verses not banned in India after all
Salman Rushdie's notorious The Satanic Verses -- one of his better novels -- was banned in a number of countries, including in India, where in 1988 importation of the novel was prohibited (it...
View ArticleQ & A: Wu Qi
Issue 169 of Granta, devoted to China, is now out, and among the pieces is a Q & A with Wu Qi, The Rules of the Game, offering an interesting overview of literature and writing in...
View ArticleQ & A: Esther Kinsky
At hlo Stephanie Newman has a Q & A with the German author and translator, Esther Kinsky: When I came to Hungary in 2005, it was a post-traumatic society. Kinsky's Seeing Further is...
View ArticleBayerischer Buchpreis
Clemens Meyer threw a hissy fit when he didn't win the German Book Prize a few weeks ago -- see my previous mentionk --, complaining especially about not being able to cash in. The Bavarian...
View ArticleA City on Mars review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the collection of Kelly and Zach Weinersmith considering Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought...
View ArticleFestival Neue Literatur
This year's Festival Neue Literatur -- "the first and only festival to spotlight German-language and American fiction together" -- kicks off tomorrow in New York, and while it's not a packed...
View ArticleCrossword Book Awards shortlists
They've announced the shortlists for this year's Crossword Book Awards, an Indian book prize with five categories, including for works in translation; see, for example, the Scroll.in report....
View ArticleJürgen Becker (1932-2024)
German poet Jürgen Becker has passed away; see, for example, Zum Tod von Jürgen Becker – Was man verschieben kann und was nicht by Martin Oehlen in the Frankfurter Rundschau. Becker won...
View ArticleEmmanuel Carrère profile
At The Guardian Mark O'Connell has a profile of the author, in ‘Why do I have an interest in such horrible things?’: Emmanuel Carrère on the Paris terror attacks trial. Carrère's V13 is...
View Article'Globalizing' Korean literature
Grabbing the moment and the momentum, New LTI Korea president aims to globalize Korean literature following Han Hang's Nobel win, as Lee Gyu-lee reports in The Korea Times; among the ambitions:...
View ArticleAI and translation
Another article finding ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators ? -- this one by Keza MacDonald at The Guardian. MacDonald does suggest that: "There are however some...
View ArticleGrand prix de littérature américaine
Should we leave it up to the French to chose the best American novel ? In case you want to, they've now decided to award this year's Grand prix de littérature américaine to the French...
View ArticleBooker Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Booker Prize, the leading English-language novel prize, and it is Orbital, by Samantha Harvey. I've been curious about this one, but I haven't...
View ArticleThe City and its Uncertain Walls review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Murakami Haruki's latest, The City and its Uncertain Walls, just (about) out in English, from Alfred A. Knopf in the US and...
View ArticleNeal Stephenson Q & A
The latest of Tyler Cowen's 'Conversations with Tyler' is episode 226, Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels. Among the interesting responses: Man, I don't...
View ArticleNBA finalists Q & As
At the Literary Hub they have "Quick Questions for the Year's Best Writers, Poets, and Translators" in Meet the 2024 National Book Award Finalists.
View ArticleGGs
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the winners of this year's Governor General's Literary Awards, in seven categories each in English and in French. The English fiction winner...
View ArticlePremio Cervantes
They've announced the winner of this year's Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes, the leading Spanish-language author prize, and it is Álvaro Pombo. He does not...
View ArticleOddest Book Title finalists
The Bookseller has announced the finalists for its Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year -- six titles, all from American university presses. The winner will be announced on 6...
View ArticleNIF Book Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, a leading Indian non-fiction book prize, and it is the B.R.Ambedkar-biography by Ashok Gopal, A Part Apart;...
View ArticleMelbourne Prize for Literature
They've announced the winner of this year's Melbourne Prize for Literature, a triennial Australian author prize, and it is Alexis Wright. Previous winners include Helen Garner (2006) and...
View ArticleAI-generated poetry
Via and via, I'm pointed to the recent Scientific Reports paper by Brian Porter and Edouard Machery that found that AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is...
View ArticleRichard Flanagan Q & A
At The Guardian Anthony Cummins has a Q & A with Richard Flanagan: ‘I’m not sure that I will write again’. Among his responses: Do you think you’ll go back to writing novels of plot...
View ArticleSchweizer Buchpreis
They've announced (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) the winner of this year's Swiss Book Prize -- the leading German-language Swiss book prize, paying out CHF30,000 -- and it is Seinetwegen, by...
View ArticlePeter Handke Q & A
Nobel laureate Peter Handke (On a Dark Night I Left my Silent House, etc.) was awarded the Großes Goldene Ehrenzeichen des Landes Steiermark mit dem Stern (the 'Great Golden Badge of Honor of...
View ArticleTanikawa Shuntarō (1931-2024)
Japanese poet -- and Peanuts-translator -- Tanikawa Shuntarō has passed away; see, for example, the reports from Kyodo News and the AP. Quite a bit of his work has been translated into...
View ArticleBrenner Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Brenner Prize, a leading Israeli literature prize, and it is שלושה ימים בקיץ, by Yossi Avni-Levy; see also Neria Barr's report in The Jerusalem Post,...
View ArticleCercador Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation -- recognizing: "works of literature in translation as selected by a committee of independent...
View ArticleÖsterreichischer Buchpreis
On Sunday they announced the Swiss Book Prize -- see my mention -- and yesterday it was the turn of the Austrian Book Prize: they announced the winner, and it is Brennende Felder, by Reinhard...
View ArticleGiller Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize -- a ... big Canadian prize, recognizing: "excellence in Canadian fiction -- long format or short stories" -- and it is Held,...
View ArticleBaillie Gifford Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction -- "The UK's premier annual prize for non-fiction books" -- and it is Question 7, by Richard Flanagan.
View ArticleCold Enough For Snow review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jessica Au's Cold Enough For Snow. This won the inaugural, 2020 (but announced in 2021 ...) The Novel Prize, a prize...
View ArticlePrix du Meilleur livre étranger
They announced the winners of this year's prix du Meilleur livre étranger, a leading French prize for works in translation; see, for example, the Livres Hebdo report. Both prizes went to...
View ArticleWriters' Trust of Canada Awards
They've announced the winners of this year's seven Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. Unfortunately, you have to click through each of the prizes to see who won at the official site --...
View Article(American) National Book Awards
The National Book Foundation has announced the winners of this year's National Book Awards. The National Book Award for Translated Literature went to Lin King's translation of Yáng...
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