Half of a Yellow Sun - the film
The film based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's much-praised Half of a Yellow Sun -- see the official site -- is now making the rounds --- except, apparently, in Nigeria, where it was scheduled to...
View ArticleA Brit in l'Académie française ?
Michael Edwards was actually elected to the Académie française well over a year ago, but he only yesterday finally took his fauteuil -- succeeding the great Jean Dutourd. Gotta love the...
View ArticleGeorge Macdonald Fraser profile
On the occasion of Heywood Hill putting George MacDonald Fraser's Working Library up for sale (2 June to 31 July), publisher Christopher Maclehose reminisces about The derring-do that created...
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the leading literary prize for a translation in the UK, and it is: The Iraqi Christ, by Hassan Blasim, translated...
View ArticleThe City under the Skin review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Geoff Nicholson's new novel, The City under the Skin. That's the eighteenth (!) Geoff Nicholson title under review at the...
View ArticleAmazon v. Hachette et al.
I tend to stay away from the controversies-of-the day that everybody weighs in on (sorry, no 'trigger warning'-commentary hereabouts), but the Amazon.com/Hachette dispute is hard to avoid....
View ArticleFrench-American Foundation Translation Prizes
They announced the winners of the: "27th Annual Translation Prize for superior English translations of French works published in 2013" awarded by the French-American Foundation and the Florence...
View ArticleGerald M. Edelman (1929-2014)
There are only a few books by non-literature Nobel laureates under review at the complete review, but A Universe of Consciousness, co-written by Gerald M. Edelman, is one of them. He's...
View ArticleChanging times in Iran ?
The recent rounding-up and detention of some Iranians for posting a video on YouTube of themselves dancing to an innocuous pop song -- see, for example, the story in The Guardian -- suggests...
View Article'This Way Up ?' festival
From 29 May to 1 June they're having the Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts, This Way Up ? in London -- looks good (well, other than the dizzying, over-busy official...
View ArticleThe List of My Desires review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Grégoire Delacourt's The List of My Desires -- as it was titled in the UK; it just came out in the US under the title My Wish...
View ArticleAfrican literature
In The Herald Etinosa Agbolahor makes the case for Why you should be reading African books. See also the index of African literature under review at the complete review, if you're...
View ArticleAssises internationales du roman
They held the eighth edition of les Assises internationales du roman -- the International Forum on the Novel -- at the Villa Gillet last week; disappointingly, there doesn't seem to have been...
View ArticleThe Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Joël Dicker's incredibly successful novel, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, which has now (today is the official...
View ArticleQ & A: Armenian literature abroad
At hetq Anush Kocharyan talks with 'literary' agent Arevik Ashkharoyan, finding Armenian Authors' Works Attract Interest in International Literary Market. Ashkharoyan runs the 1st...
View ArticleQ & A: Will Evans
At Asymptote there's a Publisher Profile: Will Evans of Deep Vellum by Frances Riddle. Will's Deep Vellum -- 'Publishing translated literature in Dallas, Texas' -- is currently...
View ArticleJen Lien-kche takes Franz Kafka Prize !
The Franz Kafka Prize attracted some attention about a decade ago when two years in a row they honored the author who would go on to be awarded the Nobel Prize later that year (Elfriede Jelinek...
View ArticleACFNY Translation Prize revived
After a hiatus of a couple of years, it appears the Austrian Cultural Forum New York Translation Prize is being revived -- with a launch-announcement at Book Expo America on Friday; see also...
View ArticleFrench author writing in ... Urdu
After English, French seems to be the most common foreign language for writers from other countries to adopt, from Chinese authors such as Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian to American author...
View ArticleEuregio student prize
'Euregio' is the really sad, cringe-inducing name they chose for a: a section of the Dutch-German border area covering parts of the Dutch provinces Gelderland, Overijssel, and Drenthe as well...
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