Halban profile
At Tablet Vladislav Davidzon profiles The Best Little Jewish Publishing House in London -- Halban Publishers. A pretty interesting read, given everything from their interesting...
View Article'Top 20 South African Books, 1994-2014' ?
Via I learn that the Library and Information Association of South Africa has selected the Top 20 South African Books, 1994-2014 (from 253 titles nominated by librarians). An interesting...
View ArticleThrough the Night review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Stig Sæterbakken's Through the Night. -- just longlisted for the Best Translation Book Award (see my recent mention).
View ArticleMaureen Freely elected English PEN president
English PEN announces new President -- Maureen Freely, author and translator from the Turkish (works by Orhan Pamuk; The Time Regulation Institute, etc.).
View ArticleSwiss literary map
Switzerland is 'Guest of Honour' at this year's Leipzig Book Fair, and among the promotion-ideas they came up with was to add 'Literaturlandkarten' -- six semi-interactive literary maps -- to...
View ArticleFrench bestseller get-together
L'Express report on Le palmarès 2013 des best-sellers, as they got together the authors of many of last year's bestselling (in France) titles, fiction and non, to exchange ... (sigh)...
View ArticleMadras Literary Society library
Divya Chandrababu exaggerates in the Times of India in describing it as a Forgotten library: 200-year-old Madras Literary Society -- every couple of years someone preofiles the place (e.g. Asha...
View ArticleJapanese literature abroad
Via I'm pointed to Takayuki Iwasaki's piece in Nikkei Asian Review finding Japan's literati impervious to politics -- meaning that, despite tensions with nearby South Korea, China, and Taiwan,...
View ArticlePrizes: Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse
They've announced the winners of the Preise der Leipziger Buchmesse (though, amazingly, they seem incapable of offering that information on a single page at the official site ...), with How the...
View ArticlePrizes: National Book Critics Circle Awards
They've announced the winners of the National Book Critics Circle ('for Publishing Year 2013'), with Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie taking the fiction prize and Distant Reading by...
View ArticleDefinitely Maybe review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Definitely Maybe. Melville House has just reissued this one, one of a number of Strugatsky...
View ArticleIcchokas Meras (1934-2014)
Lithuanian-born writer Icchokas Meras, best-known as the author of Stalemate, has passed away; see, for example, the mention in The Jerusalem Post.
View ArticleSebald Lecture - video
The video of this year's Sebald Lecture by Margaret Atwood, 'Atwood in Translationland', can now also be seen online.
View ArticleWriting in ...: Romansh
As I recently noted, Switzerland is the 'guest of honour' at the current Leipzig Book Fair, and at Deutsche Welle Susanne von Schenck reports on an often overlooked sliver of Swiss literature,...
View ArticleWriting in ...: Nigeria
The Literary Society of Nigeria recently held an international conference, and in The Sun they now report on it, in Scholars ponder on future of Nigerian literature. The theme was...
View ArticleWriting in ...: China
At the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time weblog Laura Fitch asks Eric Abrahamsen and Canaan Morse (of Pathlight) about The Mo Yan Effect on China's Literary Scene. Lots of...
View ArticleOddest German book title
In imitation of the UK's Diagram Prize for oddest book title the Germans have started their own Ungewöhnlichster Buchtitel des Jahres-competition -- with the prize just handed out, for Das...
View ArticleDavid Malouf profile
David Malouf turns 80 in a couple of days, and in The Australian Geordie Williamson profiles him, in Open country -- focusing on the story, Valley of Lagoons.
View ArticleRunning out of time to read in France ?
Les Echos report on a recent Livres Hebdo survey (not freely accessible online) finding Faute de temps, les Français lisent moins, as the percentage of respondents who claimed (admitted ?) to...
View ArticleChimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Lagos
At The Daily Beast Henry Krempels has a Q & A about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Literary Lagos. I can't help but note that she doesn't actually answer the first question, 'Can you...
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