Premio RBA de Novela Negra
They've announced that Arnaldur Indriðason has won the Premio RBA de Novela Negra -- the RBA International Prize for Crime Writing -- yet another Spanish literary prize that qualifies for the...
View ArticleDavid Mitchell Q & A
In The Moscow Times Andrei Muchnik has a Q & A as David Mitchell Talks About Moscow, Literature and the Future. The Cloud Atlas-author disappointingly says: "let's try to avoid...
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Worst covers ever ?
The Literary Saloon post that attracted the most visitors to the weblog for any one-day period appeared exactly a decade and a day ago -- and, ironically, given how little attention I pay to...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Eduardo Mendoza's The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt. Last year and this he's rated on the Nobel Prize betting sheets...
View ArticleJoyce Carol Oates Q & A
In The Washington Post they have Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself [via], and she does a pretty decent job with herself.
View ArticleThe Family - the film
Tonino Benacquista's Badfellas (now published in the US as Malavita) has been made into a film that's now been released in the US as ... The Family. Directed by Luc Besson, and starring Robert...
View ArticleJan Michalski Prize shortlist
The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature -- admirably international in what it's willing to consider -- has pared down its list of contenders to three finalists: L'aigle et le Dragon by Serge...
View ArticleWindham-Campbell Prizes
They handed out the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes -- $150,000, nine times over -- last week, and there's been a bit of press coverage: Literature prizewinners descend on...
View ArticlePatricio Pron Q & A
Via I'm pointed to a nice long Q & A by Claudio Iván Remeseira at Hispanic New York with Patricio Pron: The Argentine Writer and His Tradition. His novel My Fathers' Ghost is...
View ArticleMan Booker caves; will allows US entries
The Man Booker Prize, apparently widely considered the leading English-language novel prize, has lots of objectionable/dubious eligibility requirements; my personal least-favorite, as you know,...
View ArticleBook of interest: Going postal
Okay, it's a university press release, touting the work of their own, but I have to admit I was intrigued by Therese Boyd's report in the Penn State News about how Professor looks at how...
View ArticleNew (old) Yaşar Kemal
Apparently Turkish great Yaşar Kemal has kept this in the drawer for a while, and at some 70-odd pages it's just a novella, but Tek Kanatlı Bir Kuş, just out from Yapı Kredi Yayınları (see...
View ArticleGuyana Prize for Literature
They announced the shortlists for the Guyana Prize for Literature two weeks ago, with only two books contending in the fiction category, no work found to be suitable in the poetry category, and...
View ArticleReflections on Judging review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Richard A. Posner's Reflections on Judging, forthcoming from Harvard University Press. (For some reason, Posner is -- by...
View ArticleScotiabank Giller Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist for the Canadian Scotiabank Giller Prize, selecting thirteen titles from 147 submissions. (And, no, I haven't seen, much less read a one of these.) Given...
View ArticleNelly-Sachs-Preis to Abbas Khider
They've announced (only in German, so far) that Abbas Khider has won the biennial literary prize of the city Dortmund, the Nelly-Sachs-Preis. Worth €15,000 this prize has an impressive...
View ArticleLoeb Classical Library® enthusiasm
At Designers & Books Amanda Kolson Hurley, finds Loeb at First Sight: The Classics Come in Red and Green, looking at Harvard University Press' Loeb Classical Library® and asking Harvard...
View ArticleNew issue of Elm
As Estonian Public Broadcasting reports, New Estonian Literary Magazine Out, as the Autumn, 2013 (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) of Elm, the Estonian literary magazine ("the only...
View ArticleThomas-Mann-Preis to Juli Zeh
Another day, another German-language author (as opposed to book) prize: they've now announced (though not yet at any of the officially associated sites, last I checked ...) that Juli Zeh will...
View ArticleReading in ... Khartoum
In The New York Times today Isma'il Kushkush reports that In a Faded Literary Capital, Efforts at a Revival, reporting from and about the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as: Books and reading are...
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