Light and Dark review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Natsume Sōseki's unfinished magnum opus, Light and Dark, just out in a new translation by John Nathan from Columbia University...
View ArticlePrize: Typographical Translation Award
As Aaron Westerman reports, they've determined The 2013 Typographical Translation Award Winner -- and it's The Devil's Workshop, by Jáchym Topol, beating out Tirza by Arnon Grunberg, 137 votes...
View ArticlePrize: Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde
They've announced that Parabole du failli, by Lyonel Trouillot, has won this year's Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde, a $5000 prize for Caribbean authors with a solid list of previous...
View ArticleArab authors' favorites 2013
Arabic Literature (in English) helpfully collects the favorites of 'a few acclaimed and award-winning authors', putting together Arab Authors' Favorites of 2013. I'd love to see this...
View ArticleUK: 'The publishers' year: hits and misses of 2013'
As far as year-end round-ups go, The Guardian's The publishers' year: hits and misses of 2013, where publishers also name a book they published that they feel deserved to do better as well as a...
View Article'Nigerian' literature
In Vanguard Uduma Kalu reports on a recent Association of Nigerian Authors conference, with a focus on Toyin Falola's keynote address -- summing up: 100 year-search for national literature, a...
View ArticleNew issue: Chinese Literature Today
Volume 3 No. 1 & 2 of Chinese Literature Today is now available, with a limited amount of material (but, sadly, none of the reviews ...) freely accessible online. Mo Yan is the...
View ArticleNew issue: World Literature Today
The January/February 2014 issue of World Literature Today is now out, with a fair amount of the material freely available online. NSK Neustadt Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye is, of course,...
View ArticleThe Literature Express review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Lasha Bugadze's The Literature Express. It's not the first work of Georgian literature under review at the complete...
View ArticleWorst year-end round-up ?
There are an endless number of year-end literary round-ups, some of which are of some interest, and many of which aren't. And then there are the few which are ..... I hesitate to mention...
View Article#NBCC20pct
The National Book Critics Circle Award is among the leading American book awards, and has consistently (or at least more consistently than the nearest competition, the (American) National Book...
View ArticleIrrawaddy Literary Festival 2014 preview
The 2014 Irrawaddy Literary Festival runs 14 to 16 February, and in The Myanmar Times Zon Pann Pwint previews it, in (sigh ...) Not lost in translation. As the article notes, the...
View ArticleEtisalat Prize for Literature longlist
They've announced the longlist for the Etisalat Prize for Literature, a new "pan-African prize celebrating first time writers of published fiction books". Overall, it sounds pretty good...
View ArticleNobel report
Alice Munro couldn't making it to the Nobel ceremonies a couple of weeks ago, but her longtime editor Douglas Gibson made the trip and reports at nice length in the National Post about the...
View ArticleThe Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Katherine Pancol's The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles. Pancol is, year in and year out , one of the bestselling French...
View ArticleCairo International Book Fair preview
Mohammed Saad reports at ahramonline that Political turmoil won't mar Cairo book fair, vows Magahed, as he previews the Cairo International Book Fair, scheduled to run 22 January through 6...
View ArticleThe Hotel Life review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Javier Montes' The Hotel Life -- another recent Spanish novel, just out from new publisher Hispabooks.
View ArticleFay Weldon Q & A
In The Washington Post Carole Burns has a Q & A as Fay Weldon remembers life upstairs and downstairs Among the interesting responses: Why did you return to the historical novel ? It...
View ArticleHighest-earning authors in China
The announced the 2013 'Chinese Writers Rich List' (中国作家富豪榜) a couple of weeks ago; I've been hoping for some better English language-coverage to link to, but none seems forthcoming. The...
View ArticleBookselling in ... Dubai
In The National Rym Gazal reports on The Dubai bookshop that is helping to preserve historic Arabic writing -- Dar Al Fadeela. Glad to see this sort of thing is still going on.
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