There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a career-spanning selection of poems by Tove Ditlevsen, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die. (This is already...
View ArticlePRH takes over Text
Publishing juggernaut Penguin Random House has taken over leading Australian independent Text; see, for example, the latter's press release, Text Publishing joins Penguin Random House....
View ArticleMargaret Atwood profile
At Mexico News Daily Ann Marie Jackson profiles the author, in In conversation with Margaret Atwood in San Miguel de Allende.
View ArticleEnglish-language publishing in Europe
As I've mentioned before, one of the issues continental European publishers are dealing with is that local book-buyers are buying many books written in English in the original rather than the...
View ArticleEdgar Allan Poe Award finalists
The Mystery Writers of America has announced the finalists for this year's Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The winners will be announced 1 May.
View ArticleJewish Book Awards
The Jewish Book Council has announced the (many) winners of this year's Jewish Book Awards. The only winning title under review at the complete review is the winner of the Jane Weitzman...
View ArticleJalal Al-Ahmad Literary Awards
They've announced the winners of this year's Jalal Al-Ahmad Literary Awards, a leading Iranian literary prize, with Majid Gheisari's سنگ اقبال ('The Stone of Iqbal') winning the novel prize;...
View ArticlePerversity review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Francis Carco's 1925 novel, Perversity. The American publisher of the 1928 English translation of this gave Ford Madox...
View Article'World literature'
At Qantara.de Gerrit Wustmann explores Who defines "world literature" ? finding: Almost no one likes to admit it, but non-Western literature in German translation is (again, with some...
View ArticleDylan Thomas Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist for this year's Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize -- awarded: "for the best published literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or...
View ArticleWolff Translator's Prize longlist
The Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize has announced the eighteen translation from German into English published in the USA or Canada in 2024 submitted for consideration -- a good...
View ArticleNBCC Awards finalists
The (American) National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for its awards. The only title under review at the complete review is the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize...
View ArticleGordon Burn Prize shortlist
New Writing North has announced the shortlist for this year's Gordon Burn Prize, awarded for: "novels which dare to enter history and interrogate the past; [...] non-fiction brave enough to...
View ArticlePrix Sévigné
The Fondation de la Poste has announced the winner of the 2024 prix Sévigné, a prize for a volume of correspondence, and it is for a collection Italo Calvino's correspondence, Le métier...
View ArticleNew Asymptote
The January 2025 issue of Asymptote is now out -- lots of great material for your weekend-reading.
View ArticleCharlotte Mandell Q & A
At the Asymptote blog Mia Ruf has a Q & A with the translator, in Voiding the Ego: Charlotte Mandell on Translating Paul Valéry. Mandell's translation of Monsieur Teste is recently...
View ArticleBangla Academy Literary Awards
As reported at, for example, New Age Bangla Academy suspends literary award list, as the Bangla Academy announced their Literary Awards on the 23rd, and then ... de-nounced them yesterday....
View Article'Best new novelists' ?
At The Observer they have a feature on what they consider The best new novelists for 2025 -- though limited to writers living in the UK or Ireland. They include Q & As with the...
View ArticleZadie Smith Q & A
In the Sunday Times they have a Q & A with the author, in Zadie Smith on White Teeth: ‘I’ve never reread it. I never will’. Among her responses: As a reader I’m a great admirer of...
View ArticleUketsu profile
Uketsu's Strange Pictures is now out in English, and in The Guardian Ella Creamer profiles the author, in ‘Am I a Cyclopian monster?’ How masked writer Uketsu went from asparagus videos to...
View ArticlePremio Pepe Carvalho
They've announced the winner of this year's Premio Pepe Carvalho -- a mystery author prize named after the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán-character, and it is Dead Man's Share-author Yasmina Khadra....
View ArticleVolker Schlöndorff (wants) to film Visitation
Börsenblatt reports -- via a Märkische Allgemeine report that's unfortunately paywalled -- that German film director Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum, The Handmaid's Tale, The Lost Honor of...
View ArticleLibris Literatuur Prijs longlist
They've announced the longlist for this year's Libris Literatuur Prijs, a leading Dutch literary prize. This prize admirably reveals all the titles submitted for consideration -- as all...
View ArticleQ & A: Rohan Murty
In the New Indian Express Vidya Iyengar has a Q & A with Rohan Murty, founder of the Murty Classical Library of India, in My mother instilled a deep respect for history, Literature: Rohan...
View ArticleQ & A: Bonnie Marranca
Disappointing to hear that PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art has finished its run after forty-eight years -- and at The MIT Press Nick Lindsay has a Q & A with its longtime editor, in...
View ArticleSarah McNally profile
At Vulture Matthew Schneier profiles the McNally Jackson-founder, in Sarah McNally's Book Club. Among the titbits of interest: numbers ! "The McNally Editions imprint, despite the...
View Article'Audio-based digital narratives in literature'
In Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Bhuvaneshwari Palanisamy & Rajasekaran V offer The listening renaissance: a theoretical exploration of audio-based digital narratives in...
View Article“Human Authored” certification
The (American) Authors Guild has announced, sigh, that: Authors Guild Launches “Human Authored” Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature -- "a first-of-its-kind official...
View ArticleOckham NZ Book Awards longlists
They've announced the longlists for this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, 43 books in four categories, selected from 175 entries. Three of the categories have ten titles each on...
View ArticleSusan Barker Q & As
Susan Barker's Old Soul is now out -- and there are now Q & As with the author at CrimeReads and Writer's Digest.
View ArticleRepublic of Consciousness longlist
They've announced the longlist for this year's Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses (the original UK/Ireland prize; there's also a US/Canada version now). Certainly an...
View ArticleSapir Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Sapir Prize, a leading Israeli book prize paying out NIS 150,000, and it is שלושה ימים בקיץ by Yossi Avni-Levy; see, for example, Neria Barr's report...
View ArticleBook market 2024: Austria
The Hauptverband des Österreichischen Buchhandels has issued an overview (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) of the Austrian book market in 2024 -- albeit avoiding revealing a lot of the actual...
View ArticleBook market 2024: UK
The Bookseller has a couple of (presumably paywalled ?) 'Reviews of the Year' (2024), including for fiction sales and non-fiction sales in the UK in 2024. Non-fiction sales (as counted...
View ArticleJenny Erpenbeck Q & A
In The Indian Express Aishwarya Khosla has a Q & A with the author at the Jaipur Literature Festival, in ‘All already in the Mahabharata’: Booker Prize winner Jenny Erpenbeck on war and...
View ArticleThe Lily in the Valley review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Honoré de Balzac's The Lily in the Valley, recently out in a new translation from New York Review Books.
View ArticleHan Kang profile
Nobel laureate Han Kang has a new novel out -- We Do Not Part; I haven't seen it yet -- and at The Guardian Lisa Allardice has a profile of her, ‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning...
View ArticleSalome in Brooklyn
Having written the novel Salome in Graz I'm always curious about new Salome-variations, especially of the Wilde play and the Strauss opera, and tomorrow through 16 February Heartbeat Opera is...
View ArticleBhashavaad
Ashoka University has announced the launch of "India’s first non-profit, open-access, and crowd-sourced database of Indian translations", Bhashavaad -- already with more than 14,000 entries....
View ArticleMahmoud Saeed (1939?-2025)
Iraqi author Mahmoud Saeed has passed away; see, for example, the Iraqi News Agency report or Thomas Frisbie's obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times. Several of his works have been...
View ArticleHilary Mantel estate
Apparently they're settling Hilary Mantel's estate, and so the numbers are out: she left it all to her husband, "having amassed a fortune of £4,677,327, which later reduced to a net sum of...
View ArticleOskar Pastior Preis
The Oskar Pastior Prize is a big-money (€40,000) but perhaps not so well-endowed literary prize, by the o du roher iasmin-author, awarded to an author whose work is 'in the tradition of the...
View ArticleNear Distance review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Hanna Stoltenberg's Near Distance, now also out in a North American edition, from Biblioasis; it came out in the UK in 2023.
View ArticlePEN Translates grants
English PEN has announced the latest batch of winners of its PEN Translates grants -- 19 titles, translated from 13 languages. Among the projects is a new translation of Yasutaka...
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