Günter Grass' Christa Wolf eulogy
The New York Review blog has the first English translation (by David Dollenmayer) of Günter Grass' Christa Wolf eulogy, On Christa Wolf.
View ArticleRoberto Bolaño story, and more
In this week's issue of The New Yorker, there's a nice piece by Roberto Bolaño, Labyrinth -- and an interesting Q & A at their weblog, The Book Bench, as Willing Davidson asks Bolaño's...
View ArticleБернардијева соба takes NIN Prize
As, for example, Nemanja Cabric reports at Balkan Insight, Slobodan Tisma Wins Serbia's NIN Literary Prize, as Бернардијева соба ('Bernardi's Room') by Slobodan Tisma (Слободан Тишма) has won...
View ArticleHow to Fix Copyright review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of William Patry's How to Fix Copyright. (Note that Patry offers a Disclaimer at the beginning of the book, noting that:...
View ArticleAkutagawa and Naoki awards
It's that time of year again, when the Japanese Akutagawa and Naoki awards are announced, and, as reported, for example, in The Japan Times: Novelists Shinya Tanaka [田中慎弥] and To Enjo [円城塔] are...
View ArticleCarlo Fruttero (1926-2012)
The other half of the writing team of Fruttero and Lucentini has now also passed away; see, for example, the note at AGI. (Ridiculously, the only US/UK mass media mention I find so far is in...
View ArticleAnother Humphrey Davies profile
Just a few days ago I pointed to David Tresilian's Humphrey Davies profile in Al-Ahram Weekly, and now Iman Sherif profiles him too in Gulf News, in Never at a loss for words.
View ArticleBest-selling French novelists, 2011
Time again for one my favorite annual features: Le Figaro presents Les dix romanciers français qui vendent le plus -- i.e. the ten French-writing novelists whose books (entire output, not a...
View ArticleE-books in ... India
Publishing houses like Penguin, HarperCollins' plan to release a slew of e-books -- as Indu Nandakumar and Srividya Iyer write in The Economic Times -- doesn't sound like much of a headline --...
View ArticleI-Lit
In The Jakarta Post Talia Shadwell reports that Lontar working on more literary projects, as: A Jakarta-based translation organization wants bookworms worldwide to tap into Indonesia's rich...
View ArticleFrench literary prizes: Le prix Memorable
They've announced the winner of Le prix Mémorable Initiales -- "un prix qui salue la réédition d’un auteur malheureusement oublié, d’un auteur étranger décédé encore jamais traduit en français,...
View ArticleThe Rushdie-(not-)in-India mess
Last week I mentioned how it looked like Salman Rushdie would not be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival because some locals were stirring The Satanic Verses-pot yet again and toadying...
View ArticleDSC prize for South Asian Literature
They've announced that Shehan Karunatilaka awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 -- i.e. his Chinaman (to be published in the politically apparently hopelessly correct US as The...
View ArticleYasmina Reza profile
In The Observer Elizabeth Day profiles Yasmina Reza, about her recently made-into-a-film (by Roman Polanski !) The God of Carnage and more.
View ArticleNational Book Critics Circle Awards finalists
They've announced the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards -- and surprisingly many (well, a handful) are under review at the complete review: Fiction: The Marriage Plot by...
View ArticleNational Literature Awards - Cyprus
They've taken their time, but, hey, there's no need for rush in recognizing literary excellence, and now, as the Famagusta Gazette reports: The results of the competition for the 2010...
View ArticleFrench literary prizes: Pharmaceutical prize
Everybody wants a literary prize ! Now also the French Académie nationale de Pharmacie, who have set up Le Grand prix littéraire de l'Académie nationale de Pharmacie (warning ! dreaded pdf...
View ArticleWe Always Treat Women Too Well review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Raymond Queneau's 1947 novel, We Always Treat Women Too Well.
View ArticleThe Flowers of War review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Yan Geling's novel of the Nanjing Massacre, The Flowers of War. The movie version is also just out -- which also means...
View ArticleAngela Carter in postcards
The Observer has an extract from Susannah Clapp's forthcoming A Card From Angela Carter, Angela Carter: a portrait in postcards, which sounds pretty interesting. See also the Bloomsbury...
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