Bharathipura review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of recent Man Booker International Prize finalist U.R.Ananthamurthy's Bharathipura. Oxford University Press published this...
View ArticleLiu Cixin's 三体-trilogy to be translated
At their weblog they have the great news that Tor Books to Release The Three-Body Problem, the First Chinese Science Fiction Novel Translated Into English. Okay, it's hardly the first...
View ArticleNEA Translation Fellowships
In more good support-for-translation-in-the-US news, National Endowment for the Arts Announces $250,000 for 16 Literature Translation Fellowships, with 16 projects selected from 82 eligible...
View ArticleThe Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the new collection of stories by Chinese author Zhu Wen, The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan.
View ArticleAntonia Lloyd-Jones wins 'Found in Translation Award'
They've announced that Found in Translation Award for Antonia Lloyd-Jones this year. The Found in Translation Award is usually: "given annually to the translator or translators of the best...
View ArticleArab comics
At Qantara.de Anna Gabai looks at comics in Arabic (original and imported) in From Micky Mouse to Handala. (The only Arabic comic under review at the complete review is Metro by Magdy...
View ArticleKorean literature in English
In the July issue of KoreAm Chelsea Hawkins finds (sigh) that Korean Literature Still Lost in Translation, as apparently: the nation's beloved literature has remained niched, out of the...
View ArticleUgo Riccarelli (1954-2013)
Italian author Ugo Riccarelli -- who won, among other prizes, the Premio Strega -- has passed away; see, for example the (Italian) report at Critical Mastra or his official site. It's a...
View ArticleCrystallized books
Via psfk I learn about yet another artistic re-purposing of books -- not the kind of stuff I'm usually in favor of (a soft spot for Tom Phillips' A Humument aside, I like books to be left as...
View ArticleTranslating writers
Perhaps the single biggest difference between US/UK writing culture and that of writers in the rest of the world is that almost everywhere else a significant number of noted authors not only...
View ArticleMy First Murder review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Leena Lehtolainen's My First Murder, out now in English from AmazonCrossing. Not really something I need to spend my (or...
View ArticleMichael Wood's top ten Calvinos
Michael Wood recently selected the letters for the collection, Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (see the Princeton University Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or...
View ArticleOur Man in Iraq review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Robert Perišić's Our Man in Iraq, which came out in the UK from Istros last year, and is now available in a US edition from...
View ArticleGerman authors protest PRISM
The Germans are less than thrilled by the revelations about America's NSA spying, apparently facilitated and supported by their own intelligence service, the BND, even as chancellor Merkel...
View Article'Pataphysics review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrew Hugill's 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide.
View ArticleGerman translation(-related) prizes
They've announced that translator-from-the-English (of Anthony Burgess, Melville, Charles Olson, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, and James Joyce) Friedhelm Rathjen has won...
View ArticleThe Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pedro Mairal's The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra -- the first book out from very promising-sounding new publisher, New Vessel...
View ArticleStoppard awarded PEN Pinter Prize
They've announced that Tom Stoppard will be awarded this year's PEN Pinter Prize. As they explain: The Prize is awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of...
View ArticleOrhan Pamuk Q & A
At The New Republic Pankaj Mishra has a Q & A with Orhan Pamuk on Taksim Square, the Effects of Breaking Bad, and why the Future of the Novel is in the East Good to see that Pamuk...
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