Latin review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jürgen Leonhardt's Latin: Story of a World Language -- a rare work of non-fiction in translation under review, recently published...
View Article'Annotation Studio'
MIT News reports that New Annotation Studio tools translate an ancient literary practice into the digital age, as they're working on an e-marginalia tool. See also the more thorough...
View ArticlePublishing in ... India
'Literary' agent David Godwin (of DGA) came to India bearing warnings: with "big publishers becoming a major force in the industry" he predicted: 'India will become dumping ground for American...
View ArticleClassical Bulgarian literature
Gotta love that Radio Bulgaria calls their series on classical Bulgarian literature 'Intense Literature' -- and that they manage to find depressing example after depressing example. This week...
View ArticleMichael Madhusudan Dutt at 190
As The Daily Star notes in A literary forerunner, Bengali author 'Michael Madhusudan Dutt's 190th birth anniversary observed' on Saturday. Penguin have brought out his...
View ArticleLiterature in ... Zimbabwe
In The Standard Tinashe Mushakavanhu wonders What happened to our literature ? -- and blames: "local publishers for letting down Zimbabwean readers. They have killed our literature" (which...
View Article'The Daphnes'
Bookslut has a sensible/fun idea in launching 'The Daphnes', which annually: "will celebrate the best books of 50 years ago". The idea being that in the moment literary-prize-choices tend not...
View ArticleJosé Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014)
Cervantes Prize-winning author José Emilio Pacheco has passed away; see, for example, Nick Caistor's obituary in The Guardian. New Directions published his Battles in the Desert &...
View ArticleDecoded review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of popular Chinese author Mai Jia's Decoded, now/soon available in English.
View ArticlePrize: Whitbread Costa Book of the Year
They've selected the Whitbread Costa Book of the Year from among the category-winners, and it goes to 'First Novel'-winner The Shock of the Fall, by Nathan Filer; see the HarperCollins...
View ArticlePrize: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
They've announced the winners of this year's Australian Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, with Alex Miller's Coal Creek taking the fiction prize; see the Allen & Unwin publicity page, or...
View ArticlePrize: Libris Literatuur Prijs longlist
The Libris Literatuur Prijs -- one of the big Dutch literary prizes, with a €50,000 pay-out -- has announced its eighteen-title-strong longlist -- including titles by both mother and daughter...
View ArticlePrize: Europese Literatuurprijs longlist
They've announced the twenty-title-strong longlist for the Europese Literatuurprijs, for best European novel translated into Dutch. Limited to European fiction, it's perhaps not that...
View ArticleDie Murau Identität review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Alexander Schimmelbusch's Die Murau Identität, just out in German, coïnciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Thomas...
View ArticleSyl Cheney-Coker Q & A
In Vanguard they have a Q & A, African leaders make life uncomfortable for writers - ace Sierra Leonian writer, Syl Cheney-Coker. His Sacred River is coming out soon from Ohio...
View ArticleIndonesian literature abroad
Indonesia is to be the Guest of Honour of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015 -- a great opportunity for a country from which relatively little has made it abroad, but which they also have a lot of...
View ArticleSaving Mozart review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Raphaël Jerusalmy's novel Saving Mozart, recently published by Europa Editions.
View ArticleBookselling in Bulgaria
At Radio Bulgaria Rumyana Tsvetkova wonders: Is there a renaissance of bookstores in Sofia ? Yes, apparently: In recent years, new bookstores have virtually mushroomed in the city of...
View ArticleBookselling in Finland in 2013
Books from Finland summarizes the numbers released by the Finnish Book Publishers' Association answering the question: How much did Finland read ? (in 2013). Not that much, apparently:...
View ArticleRaja Alem Q & A
Saudi author Raja Alem's The Dove's Necklace won the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (see their synopsis) and is beginning to appear in translations (the English one to follow later...
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