Prize: Prémio Camões
The Prémio Camões is to the Lusophone world what the Premio Cervantes is to the Spanish-speaking one -- the biggest author prize they have. Last year Brazilian writer Alberto da Costa e Silva...
View ArticleAndrey Kurkov Q & A
At Sampsonia Way Rachel Bullen has a Q & A with 'Ukrainian Journalist Andrey Kurkov' -- i.e. the Russian-writing novelist, author of Death and the Penguin and much else. He notes the...
View ArticleThe state of African literature ?
Tejumola Olaniyan was elected the new president of the African Literature Association at it's recent 40th Annual Conference and PM News now print what I assume were his closing remarks at the...
View ArticleTop 25 Spanish novels 1989-2014 ?
In El Mundo they selected 1989-2014: las 25 mejores novelas -- the top 25 Spanish-Spanish (by authors from Spain, written in Spanish (not Catalan, Basque, etc.)) novels of the past quarter...
View ArticleThe Man with the Compound Eyes review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes. The UK publicity tag-line -- "A Taiwanese Life of Pi" -- was almost enough to...
View ArticleM&L Q & A
At the New Directions weblog ('Now That it's Now') editor and director of publicity Michael Barron has An Interview with Music & Literature -- or rather with editor in chief Taylor...
View ArticlePrize: Orange Prize
The prize that used to be called the Orange Prize for Fiction and then was called something else and now is called something else yet again -- but you know what I mean, that prize for: "the...
View ArticlePrize: Prince of Asturias Award (for Literature)
The Prince of Asturias Awards come in a variety of fields -- arts, sports, international coöperation, social sciences -- and, while the prize ceremony for all of the winners is held at one time...
View ArticleThe Professor and the Siren review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a new translation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Professor and the Siren, brought out by New York Review Books....
View ArticleOttaway Award
They've announced who will receive this year's Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature (at the Words without Borders gala on 28 October), and it's the same person who won...
View ArticleThe Museum of Innocence named 'Museum of the Year'
I'm a bit late on this, but cool to hear that Orhan Pamuk's 'Museum of Innocence' -- based on his novel, The Museum of Innocence -- has been named the European Museum of the Year 2014.
View ArticlePerec's I Remember in English
A review of Georges Perec's classic, Joe Brainard-inspired Je me souviens was posted at the complete review more than a decade ago -- and now, finally, an English translation of this work is...
View ArticlePalFest 2014
The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) ran 31 May through 5 June, but there's been relatively little coverage from or about it. In the Financial Times Teju Cole offers a diary of...
View ArticleGranma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Angolan author Ondjaki's Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret, just out from Biblioasis (who continue to bring out an...
View ArticleProfile: Javier Cercas
In the Independent on Sunday Boyd Tonkin profiles Javier Cercas (Soldiers of Salamis, etc.). His novel Outlaws is now out in the UK, and due in the US in August; pre-order your copy at...
View ArticleProfile: Shin Kyung-Sook
In The Guardian Maya Jaggi profiles Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious deaths'. Her Please Look After Mom got a lot of...
View ArticleMichael Emmerich Q & A
At Critical Margins Hope Leman has an Interview with Michael Emmerich, Author of "The Tale of Genji" (meaning his study of the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization,...
View ArticleRunning Through Beijing review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Xu Zechen's Running Through Beijing, just out from Two Lines Press. Pretty interesting that this only appears in English...
View ArticleCoffeehouse literature (not) in Nepal
At ekantipur.com Ishwor Kadel complains that: 'In Nepal, and especially Kathmandu, coffeehouses are too expensive to foster intellectual creativity', in Literature in a cup. Yes,...
View ArticleEnglish in India
At the New York Review blog Samanth Subramanian writes about India After English ? -- noting that newly-elected Indian prime minister Narendra Modi tends to speak publically in Hindi and...
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