Zimbabwe International Book Fair
Rather late in the day Stanley Mushava reports today (!) in The Herald: The Zimbabwe International Book Fair which was slated for July 29 to August 3, has been deferred to September 30-October...
View ArticleLiterary award betting
On the whole, wagering money on literary awards is a mug's game -- 'novelty bets' indeed. Yes, reading the Nobel-betting-leaves (see my most recent mention) is about the best one can do with...
View ArticleThe Unknown University review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of New Directions' beautiful bilingual edition of (a lot of) Roberto Bolaño's poetry, The Unknown University.
View ArticleAugust online issues
Among the August issues of online publications now available are Words without Border's Brazil issue -- which includes a section of "Poetry from the Faroe Islands" -- as well as the August...
View ArticlePEN International/New Voices Award longlist
They've announced the longlist for the 2013 PEN International/New Voices Award -- "open to unpublished writers aged 18-30", and with a judging panel that includes Alain Mabanckou and Sjón; see...
View ArticleClaire Messud profile
In The Guardian Alex Clark profiles Claire Messud: 'I still believe at the end somebody will say: and you get an A-minus for your life'.
View ArticleSolaris reading
Today from 14:30 on the Atlas Review, in collaboration with the Marina Abramović Institute is hosting a marathon reading of Stanisław Lem's Solaris at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn; see, for...
View ArticlePremchand eclipsed ?
31 July was Premchand's birthday, and in The Hindu Siddharthya Swapan Roy takes this occasion to wonder whether the great Indian author has been Cast into the shadows, asking: Why do we see and...
View ArticleChinese fiction abroad
Yes, another article (by Kelly Chung Dawson, in China Daily) finding that West turns new page in thinking on Chinese literature. It begins by noting: Harper Collins recently announced its...
View ArticleReading in ... India
In the Hindustan Times Indrajit Hazra offers a fairly extensive look at How young India is reading literature. Most of it is based on a survey of close to a thousand 18-35 year-olds but also...
View ArticleTwo or Three Years Later review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Forty-Nine Digressions by Ror Wolf, Two or Three Years Later, just out from Open Letter.
View ArticleJan Michalski Prize finalists
The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature is an admirable undertaking (though they appear entirely indifferent to any sort of publicity, making apparently no effort to publicize anything about the...
View ArticleFlavorwire's '25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers'
At Flavorwire Jason Diamond offers his list of 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers (and no, the complete review/Literary Saloon doesn't make the cut). Of course, such lists always...
View ArticleTranslations from the ... Turkish
Hürriyet Daily News have a piece explaining how Translation works open a new era for Turkish literature. Not much new, but at least a few numbers: With this project, in 2012 a total of...
View ArticleWilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis longlist
The German Book Prize is the big-name (Man Booker-like) German fiction prize handed out in the fall -- at the Frankfurt Book Fair, of course -- and they'll announce their much-anticipated...
View ArticleBest translations of translations ?
Adam Thirlwell's Multiples came out as issue 42 of McSweeney's in the US a few months ago, and is now available in book form, as Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors from...
View ArticleTop 20 literary museums ?
They held the International Forum of Literary Museums back in April, but this is the first I heard of it, via Ukrainian publications which have now all noticed that Kyiv museum of Bulgakov...
View ArticleNight Film review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Marisha Pessl's eagerly and long-awaited second novel, Night Film, due out shortly. This is one of those books that, under...
View ArticleWriting in ... Russia
At Russia Behind the Headlines Asia Pacific Alena Tveritina writes about New genres in post-Soviet Russian literature, finding: the Russian literature of the 21st century has its own important...
View ArticleThe Silence and the Roar review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Syrian author Nihad Sirees' timely 2004 novel, The Silence and the Roar, now out in English. Other Press brought this out...
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