The Colombian Mule review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Massimo Carlotto's The Colombian Mule, now out in a new edition from Europa editions.
View ArticleFT&GSBBofYA shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the £30,000 FT and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award -- and, no, I still haven't read any of these.
View ArticleBest International Literary Adaptation
They've announced that Ziad Doueiri and Joëlle Touma's adaptation of Yasmina Khadra's The Attack has won the Frankfurt Book Fair's film prize for Best International Literary Adaptation....
View ArticleMarcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013)
Leading German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki has passed away -- and with impressive speed even the English-language obituaries have started appearing, including in The New York Times and...
View ArticleHitler's Cocaine
I recently reviewed (and very much admired) Pitigrilli's Cocaine, just re-issued by New Vessel Press -- and now via I learn that Hitler also had copy -- now at Harvard; see their post, Hitler's...
View ArticleMan Booker confirms 'global expansion'
No surprise: as I already discussed at length, the Man Booker folk have decided to open eligibility for the prize, following the lead of the novel The Folio Prize, and will now allow...
View Article'Re-Thinking Literature'
Nobody told me about this in time (sigh), but at NYU they're holding a conference, Re-Thinking Literature through Saturday, with some impressive participants (Jean-Philippe Toussaint on...
View ArticleGregory Rabassa Q & A
At The Rumpus Susan Bernofsky has a nice Q & A with translator Gregory Rabassa -- with some discussion of his memoir, If This Be Treason, and some depressing translation-(not)-as-a-business...
View ArticleSwiss Book Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the Swiss Book Prize -- which, since it's limited to German-language Swiss books, surely should be the 'German Swiss Book Prize' ..... Still, some...
View ArticleNational Book Award longlists
They've been unveiling the longlists for this year's National Book Awards all week and they finally got around to the fiction category yesterday. I'm a bit ... flummoxed by the fact that not a...
View ArticleMan Booker changes - the consequences
As I discussed yesterday and previously, the Man Booker Prize has changed its eligibility and submission requirements; not surprisingly these have led to much commentary -- see now also, for...
View ArticleWriting in ... Ukraine
At Eurozine they print Peter Pomerantsev's piece on contemporary Ukrainian literature, Sometimes we dream of Europe, in which he suggests: Contemporary Ukrainian writers, then, are Europe's...
View ArticleAlbert Cossery biography
In Al-Ahram Weekly David Tresilian reports on Frédéric Andrau's Monsieur Albert: Cossery, une vie, a biography of The Jokers-author, in The strange case of Albert Cossery. It sounds like...
View ArticleM-Net Literary Awards
They handed out the South African M-Net Literary Awards yesterday -- a noteworthy award, because it has categories for several African languages, with winners in English and Afrikaans as well...
View ArticleThe Mehlis Report review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Rabee Jaber's novel The Mehlis Report, now out in English from New Directions.
View ArticleBookselling in ... Ethiopia
In The Reporter Neamin Ashenafi reports on Reading in to the Addis book market -- where one disgruntled consumer: is not satisfied with the current output, saying most of the books focus on...
View ArticleTranslation in ... India
The Times of India bring the IANS report, Translations: A shortcut into different worlds, arguing that, as Geeta Dharmarajan, executive director and founder of Katha has it: Translation as a...
View ArticleWithout Copyrights review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Robert Spoo on Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain, in Without Copyrights, recently published by Oxford University Press.
View ArticleKofi Awoonor (1935-2013)
As widely reported, among the dozens killed in the outrageous Nairobi mall-attack -- just one in the past few days' episodes of senseless violence, alongside Peshawar, Chicago, etc. -- was...
View ArticleQ & A: Karl Ove Knausgård
At The Beliver Rebecka Bülow has a Q & A with Karl Ove Knausgård. See also my reviews of My Struggle Book One and Book Two -- and, yes, I'm now more eager than ever to get my hands...
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