Prize: Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
They've announced the winners of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation -- joint winners, for the first time, as Jonathan Wright (for Youssef Ziedan's Azazeel -- which I...
View ArticlePrizes: National Jewish Book Awards
They've announced the winners of the National Jewish Book Awards -- which have a lot of categories, from 'Anthologies and Collections' to 'Holocaust' to 'Writing Based on Archival Material';...
View ArticleGlobal/parochial fiction ?
The Jaipur Literature Festival started Friday, and it has a pretty impressive program -- including The Global Novel-panel, which included Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Franzen, and Jim Crace....
View ArticleDSC Prize for South Asian Literature
They've announced that this year's DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (and the US$50,000 prize money that goes with it) goes to Chronicle Of A Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry. See also...
View ArticleTongwan City review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gao Jianqun's historical novel, Tongwan City. I've been complaining how little contemporary Chinese fiction is out there...
View ArticleMore 2014 translations
I mentioned PEN Atlas' Publishers' Highlights 2014 of forthcoming books in translation last week, and now they've also posted Publishers' highlights in 2014: part 2, with a lot more titles from...
View ArticleThe Guest Cat review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Hiraide Takashi's The Guest Cat, just out from New Directions. Hiraide's For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut was, you...
View ArticleAsymptote celebrations
The "international journal dedicated to literary translation", Asymptote is having an extended Third Anniversary Global Party -- and tonight's stop is in New York, at Housing Works at 19:00,...
View ArticleBestselling in 2013 in ... France
Slate.fr offers an overview of what books (as opposed to what French novelists; see my previous mention) sold best in France in 2013, in Ventes de livres 2013: cinquante nuances de blé et...
View ArticleIndigenous-language writing in ... Zimbabwe
In The Herald Stanely Mushava issues an SOS for literature in indigenous languages. He notes: On March 16, 2013 the people-driven Constitution ratified as Zimbabwe's official languages,...
View ArticleThe year (2013) in books in ... Urdu
In Dawn Rauf Parekh finds 2013: yet another prolific year for Urdu literature. Apparently: Ask any publisher of Urdu books, great or small, about the sale of Urdu books and probably you...
View ArticleThe Light and the Dark review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mikhail Shishkin's The Light and the Dark, which is now out in the US, too. It's published in English by Quercus -- who...
View ArticleDeutscher Krimi Preis
They've announced the winners of the thirtieth Deutscher Krimi Preis -- one of the big German mystery-book prizes -- with the German-language prize going to M, by Friedrich Ani, and the...
View ArticleEtisalat Prize for Literature shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the new Etisalat Prize for Literature -- "the first Pan-African literary prize created to recognize and reward debut fiction writers in Africa" (as long as...
View ArticleCairo International Book Fair
The Cairo International Book Fair opened yesterday. At ahramonline Mary Mourad and Mohammed Saad offer a good overview of the fair over the years, in Cairo International Book Fair:...
View ArticleUkrainian PEN statement
At Eurozine they print a statement by the Ukrainian Centre of the International PEN Club, To prevent the escalation of violence. Sadly, this is just one of too many international crises...
View Article'Minority Language Publishing Project'
This sounds pretty interesting: PEN International report that UNESCO and PEN International to partner on major new Minority Language Publishing Project -- entitled 'Developing the Minority...
View ArticleAtwood and Munro (not) in New York
Symphony Space in New York held an event on Selected Shorts: The Stories of Alice Munro, and while Munro herself was expected to only 'appear' via video link Margaret Atwood also got snowed in...
View Article'African' identities
Via I'm pointed to this interesting Q & A Siji Jabbar had with Caine Prize-winning author Tope Folarin at This is Africa -- both about 'African' identities and the publishing industry....
View ArticleTranslation renaissance ?
In The Guardian Joanna Walsh reported that Small presses growing translated fiction's readership, and now at the Three Percent weblog Chad Post reports on the Updated 2013 Translation Database:...
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