Wendy Doniger op-ed
I've mentioned the outrageous events around Wendy Doniger's The Hindus, most recently here, and in The New York Times she now has an opinion piece, Banned in Bangalore. Good to hear...
View ArticleLiterary criticism in ... India
In Frontline K.Satchidanandan writes at length about the Dilemmas of Indian literary criticism.
View ArticleFinalists: PEN/Faulkner
They've announced the finalists for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, with the winner to be announced 2 April. None of these titles are under review at the complete review;...
View ArticleFinalists: French-American Foundation translation prizes
They've announced the finalists for the 27th Annual Translation Prizes of the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation, awarded: "for superior English translations of French...
View ArticleJulian Evans Q & A
At Wordhorse Monica Patiño Pérez offers The art of translating fiction: Q&A with Julian Evans. See also his translation bibliography at his official site -- and while I'm thrilled to...
View ArticleWish they'd written ...
It always seems like a bit of a silly exercise, asking authors what books "they wish they'd written" (The Da Vinci Code, I always assume -- funding any- and every-thing they'd care to write...
View ArticleLonglist: Orange Prize
The Orange Prize for Fiction -- this week, or year, apparently going by 'BWPFF', or the 'Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction' (sorry, but it'll take a while to convince me that that will take;...
View ArticleLonglist: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The e-mail I got on Wednesday said that the information was "embargoed until Saturday 8 March" -- without asking me beforehand whether or not I agreed to those terms; as it turns out, even one...
View ArticleSnow Country review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari's early classic, Snow Country. My copy is an ancient Berkley Medallion mass-market...
View ArticlePhilip Gabriel Q & A
Via I'm pointed to the Ipshita Mitra's Q & A in the Times of India with Philip Gabriel on translating Haruki Murakami.
View ArticleWindham Campbell Prizes
They've announced this year's recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes -- who each receive: "an unrestricted grant of $150,000 to support their writing". They...
View Article"'The novel' is overrated" ?
This weekend's The New York Times Book Review-Q & A features Teju Cole: By the Book. Among the questions he's asked is: "What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet ?" to...
View ArticleLondon Review of Books profile
The London Review of Books is certainly among the more interesting literary periodicals appearing in print in English -- certainly always worth a look (I have been an occasional subscriber,...
View ArticleSimenon reviews
Penguin Classics announced last fall that they were publishing all 75 of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret-novels in new translations. I finally got my hands on the first two of these,...
View ArticleSpring Quarterly Conversation
Issue 35 of the Quarterly Conversation is now up -- so that should keep you busy for the rest of the week. First off, there's a 'Lydia Davis Symposium' -- eight pieces on the Man Booker...
View ArticleTranslation discussions
At the Asian Review of Books they have a roundtable: In Other Words: a discussion about translation and translators, with Julia Lovell, Lucas Klein, Arunava Sinha, Sophie Lewis, and M.Lynx...
View ArticleUrdu literary magazines
In Dawn Rauf Parekh writes about The phenomenon called Urdu literary magazines -- which, alas, seems to be less of a phenomenon than it once was: Until the 1960s and 1970s, readers not only...
View ArticleThe Folio Prize
The £40,000 Folio Prize, a new literary prize that: "aims to recognise and celebrate the best English-language fiction from around the world, published in the UK during a given year", has been...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award longlist
The longlist for the Best Translated Book Award has now been announced, and the titles are: The African Shore by Rodrigo Rey Rosa; tr. Jeffrey Gray Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund...
View ArticleLeipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair starts tomorrow, and runs through the 16th; they'll also announce the winners of the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse, the big German spring book prize (the German Book Prize...
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