M.G.Vassanji Q & A
At Scroll.in Saurabh Sharma has a Q & A with the author, in ‘A writer too faithful to history is not a fiction writer’: Novelist MG Vassanji, mainly about Vassanji's new novel, The...
View ArticleProfile: Elif Shafak
At The Guardian Lisa Allardice profiles the author, in ‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos ?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis. Shafak's latest -- In...
View ArticleProfile: Jean Echenoz
At Türkiye Today they profile the author, who is apparently on tour in Turkey, in French novelist Echenoz tells Istanbul readers of shift from sci-fi to real lives. Echenoz describes...
View ArticleGeorgi Gospodinov Q & A
Death and the Gardener-author Georgi Gospodinov has a new book of 'Collected Stories' out in English, The Man with Many Names -- see the publicity pages from Weidenfeld & Nicolson and...
View ArticleMore on the planned Toji translation
I mentioned the exciting news last week that the South Korean classic Land (토지; 'Toji'), by Pak Kyong-ni is apparently now set to be translated in full, and at The Chosun Daily Hwang Ji-yoon...
View ArticlePremio Planeta
It takes a lot for me to be stunned by a literary prize announcement; often there are winners out of the blue and/or complete head-scratchers (with the Dylan Nobel of course being an outlier...
View ArticlePremio Nacional a la Mejor Traducción
The Spanish government gives out a National Award for Best Translation, and they've announced this year's winner: The Anarchist Who Shared My Name-author Pablo Martín Sánchez won for his...
View ArticleGerold Späth (1939-2026)
Swiss author Gerold Späth has passed away; see, for example, the swissinfo.ch report, Swiss author Gerold Späth has died aged 86. He is best know for his novel Commedia, but does not...
View ArticleCamera Obscura review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Enrique Vila-Matas' latest, Camera Obscura, coming from Yale University Press' Margellos World Republic of Letters-series (next...
View ArticleSally Rooney's books not for sale in UK
In not entirely surprising news -- the auther had warned that this seemed a likely outcome -- Sally Rooney's UK publisher Faber have released a statement, explaining that: "in full agreement...
View ArticleÖsterreichischer Buchpreis shortlists
They've announced the shortlists for this year's Austrian Book Prize, in both the main (five titles) and debut (three titles) categories. The winner will be announced 23 November.
View ArticleCrossword Book Awards shortlists
They've announced the shortlists for this year's Crossword Book Awards, a leading Indian book prize with five categories, including for books in translation (from other Indian languages into...
View ArticleThélyson Orélien update
As readers may recall -- though it can be hard keeping up with all the cases of authors accused of using AI in their writing ... -- one of the bigger recent (possible) scandals involves...
View ArticleWriting in English but publishing abroad
At The Connexion Théophile Larcher considers "five US authors whose books are published in French but whose recent work has struggled to find publishers in their native country", in The US...
View ArticleMass-market paperbacks !
As longtime readers know, there are some book-related issues that I advocate loudly for at every turn (literary prizes should reveal what books have been submitted/are in the running for the...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Saudi Arabia
At KSA.com they report of a recent 'Report on the State of Culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2025' published by the Saudi Ministry of Culture, in 341 Novels in One Year: Saudi Narrative...
View ArticleTwenty years of The Three-Body Problem
I was rather underwhelmed by Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem -- to the extent that I couldn't be bothered to seek out the second and third volumes in the trilogy -- but there's no doubt that...
View ArticleYamazaki Nao-Cola profile
With two of her novels, Beautiful Distance and Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives, now also out in US editions (they came out in the UK earlier this year, to little notice) the author is...
View ArticleHungarian translation support
Good to hear that, as hlo reports, after the dark Orbán years Hungary to Relaunch Translation Support Programme. As they note: The translation support programme was shut down a few years...
View ArticleHotlist winners
They've announced the winners of this year's Hotlist, the German independent-publisher book prize, which every independent German publisher gets to submit a single title for (as 205 did this...
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