Niyi Osundare Q & A
In The Guardian (Nigeria) Kabir Alabi Garba has a Q & A with Niyi Osundare, Who begat African Literature ? Fortunately, Osundare sensibly doesn't think much of that particular...
View ArticleTwo Lao She books
At the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time weblog Debra Bruno reports that New Release of Lao She Books Revisits a Dark History, as Cat Country ("considered by some to be the first Chinese...
View ArticleFrisch & Co. profile
In Berlin ex-pat shares Europe's literary gems at DeutscheWelle Holger Heimann profiles E.J. Van Lanen and his new publishing venture, Frisch & Co. -- the new approach they're taking being...
View ArticlePrize: FT/GSBBotY longlist
They've announced the longlist for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year, and in the Financial Times Andrew Hill runs it down, in A reading list to reflect loss of faith in capitalism....
View ArticlePrize: Europese Literatuurprijs
They've announced that the Europese Literatuurprijs 2013 naar Limonov van Emmanuel Carrère, as the translation by Katelijne De Vuyst and Katrien Vandenberghe wins the award for best...
View ArticleUnfinished reads
Via, I'm pointed to John McMurtrie's piece at the San Francisco Chronicle's Bookmarks weblog, collecting responses from quite a good variety of authors on Those bedside books we can't quite...
View ArticleVladimir Sorokin Q & A
At the Bomblog Kathrine Tschemerinsky has a Q & A with Day of the Oprichnik-author 'Vladimir Sorokin on writing, pets, and questions that would make Nabokov ask you to leave the room' --...
View ArticleTranslation in ... Ukraine
A reader alerts me to an interesting look at Book translation in Ukraine, or Read much but not anything by Daryna Schwartzman at forUm -- Ukraine being a market that is linguistically (and...
View Article11 years of the Literary Saloon
The complete review was started in 1999, and this weblog, the Literary Saloon, was added in 2002 -- the first post posted 11 August, exactly eleven years ago. And here we are, well over 10,000...
View ArticleWriting in ... Pakistan
In Dawn Ajmal Kamal writes about Urdu literature and the events of Pakistan's history -- finding: "it was only after many years that Urdu fiction writers began the process of serious...
View ArticleMountain Echoes festival
The Mountain Echoes festival -- the Bhutan Festival of Literature, Art, & Culture -- runs through today -- and apparently some of it is being live-streamed. See also, for example,...
View ArticleThe Story of my Purity review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Italian author Francesco Pacifico's The Story of my Purity. This came out in English a few months ago and was pretty much...
View ArticlePopular in ... South Korea
A recent Korea Gallup poll found that, as Jin Eun-soo reports in The Korea Herald, Haruki Murakami most-read foreign novelist in Korea. Yes, 24 per cent of people surveyed reported...
View ArticleNeustadt and Nobel
At Publishing Perspectives Daniel Kalder writes about America's Nobel: The Neustadt International Prize for Literature, comparing two of the world's leading international author prizes, the...
View ArticleEarly Crichton books
As, for example, reported at the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy weblog, Michael Crichton's Secret Life Reprinted in Paperback, as Hard Case Crime is republishing some of Crichton's early work...
View ArticleRichard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize will be handed over this November, and part of the ceremony is also the awarding of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award -- which, they've...
View ArticleWetlands -- the movie ?
Yes, they've apparently made a film of Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (not to be confused with the recent film of the same title (in translation)) -- and they've now shown it at the Locarno film...
View ArticleMy Beautiful Bus review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Oulipian author Jacques Jouet's My Beautiful Bus, recently published by Dalkey Archive Press.
View Article'World's Top-Earning Authors'
Forbes has its list (well, slideshow) of The World's Top-Earning Authors: With '50 Shades,' E.L. James Debuts At No. 1. Sort of heartening to see that it's still possible to earn...
View ArticleMan Booker International Prize 2015 judges
No sooner do I mention the two leading international author prizes -- the Nobel and the Neustadt -- when the other, relatively new biennial wannabe demands attention, as The Man Booker...
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