Translation is a Love Affair review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jacques Poulin's nice little novel, Translation is a Love Affair, which Archipelago Books brought out back in 2009. (Yes, they...
View ArticlePreparing for the Best Translated Book Award longlist
Like the other judges for the Best Translated Book Award, I am preparing to vote for the longlist (we begin voting 1 March; the longlist of twenty-five titles will be announced 11 March). We've...
View ArticleLiterature and ethics
At Stanford they have a Center for Ethics in Society, and there they recently held an event considering that age-old question, Does Reading Literature Make You More Moral ?. At the Stanford...
View ArticleLeonardo Padura Q & As
At Words without Borders' Dispatches weblog Nathalie Handal has a Q & A, The City and the Writer: In Havana with Leonardo Padura, and he's also featured in this week's Financial Times...
View Article'The Daphne' shortlists
Bookslut has started the Daphne Awards, seeking to honor the best books of the year -- from fifty years ago -- in four categories (fiction, non, poetry and kid's stuff), and they've now...
View ArticleYu Hua Q & A
At ChinaFile Zhang Xiaoran has a Q & A with Yu Hua, Stranger Than Fiction. He notes: I may write surrealist and absurdist novels, but that's because of the increasingly pervasive...
View ArticleEtisalat Prize for Literature
They've announced -- at least via 'tweet', if not yet at the official site, last I checked -- that We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo has been awarded the inaugural Etisalat Prize for...
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New writing in ... Hindi
In the Hindustan Times Manoj Sharma reports that Young turks re-inventing Hindi literature (and, yes, I'm as disappointed as you are that they're young turks, not young Turks). So, for...
View ArticleThe Deliverance of Evil review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Roberto Costantini's thriller, The Deliverance of Evil, now out in the US as well.
View ArticleThe VIDA Count 2013
The VIDA Count 2013 -- where they: "manually, painstakingly tally the gender disparity in major literary publications and book reviews" -- is now out. They look at the number of book reviews...
View ArticleIrrawaddy Literary Festival reports
The Irrawaddy Literary Festival was held recently, and there are now some more reports on it, including Douglas Long on Late for Nowhere: The downs and ups of the Irrawaddy Literary Festival....
View ArticleWriting in ... Australia
At The Guardian's Australia Culture Blog Brigid Delaney considers: Is this a golden age for Australian debut novelists ? The focus on a quick break-through -- a first book that makes a...
View ArticleWellcome Book Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the (£30,000) Wellcome Book Prize, awarded: "to the best book of fiction or non-fiction from 2013 which leads on a medical theme". None of these are...
View ArticleOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature finalists
They've announced the finalists for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in its three categories -- fiction, non, and poetry -- with the category-winners to be announced 30 March and...
View ArticleThe No Variations review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Luis Chitarroni's Diary of an Unfinished Novel, The No Variations, published by Dalkey Archive Press (and a nicely typical...
View Article'Atwood in Translationland' audio
Margaret Atwood's recent 2014 Sebald Lecture, 'Atwood in Translationland' can now be heard in full online, here. (Presumably the video will also soon be available; I'll let you know.)
View ArticleNew issue of World Literature Today
The March/April issue of World Literature Today is now available, with much of the material available online. Among the areas of focus: 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste and 'Cross-Cultural...
View ArticleFestival Neue Literatur
The Festival Neue Literatur -- "New Writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S." -- runs today through Sunday in New York, and should be fairly interesting; watch curator Tess...
View ArticleGhana Literary Prize (ambitions)
The Ghana Literary Prize Foundation site seems to have been up for a couple of years already, but the prize itself still seems to be a work-in-progress -- so it's good to learn more about it...
View ArticleJewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
They've announced the winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize (though not yet at the official site, last I checked ...), with Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka taking...
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