Summer issue of the Quarterly Conversation
The summer 2014 issue of the Quarterly Conversation is up, with an interesting selection titles covered -- set aside some time to check it out properly.
View ArticleOxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
Over the weekend they announced the winner of this year's Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize ("for book-length literary translations into English from any living European language") -- and...
View ArticleLaidlaw review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of William McIlvanney 1977 Laidlaw, re-issued in the UK last year by Canongate, and now out in a new US edition from Europa...
View ArticleRosalind Harvey Q & A
At English PEN Grace Hetherington has a Q & A with translator Rosalind Harvey, mainly about her translation of Juan Pablo Villabolos' Quesadillas.
View ArticleThe US reaction to The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
At The New Yorker's Page-Turner weblog Alice Gregory considers why Jöel Dicker's The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair has proven to be a Francophone Hit, American Letdown. That it...
View ArticleEJ Van Lanen Q & A
At the World Literature Today weblog Michelle Johnson has a Q & A with the Frisch & Co. publisher, in Stories Beyond the Binding: A Conversation with E-book Publisher EJ Van Lanen.
View ArticleOn translating (and annotating) Proust
In the Boston Review Leland de la Durantaye looks at the recent Yale University Press edition of C.K.Scott Moncrieff's translation of Proust's Swann's Way, annotated by William C. Carter, in...
View ArticleEncore Award
The Encore Award is a nice idea -- "The Encore Award literary prize celebrates the achievement of outstanding second novels" -- and they've announced that this year the £10,000 prize goes to...
View ArticlePEN Literary Awards shortlists
They've announced the shortlists for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards (with the winners to be announced 30 July). Not many books from many categories under review at the complete review, but...
View ArticleCarmen Balcells profile
It was big new a few weeks ago when word came that, as for example Publishers Weekly reported, Andrew Wylie Merges Agency With Carmen Balcells, as leading international 'literary' agent Andrew...
View Article2014 PEN/Pinter Prize
They've announced that Salman Rushdie awarded the 2014 PEN/ Pinter Prize, which he'll get to pick up on 9 October at the British Library. President of English PEN and Chair of Judges...
View ArticleI'll Be Right There review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the second Shin Kyung-Sook novel to make it into English, I'll Be Right There. Knopf brought out Please Look After Mom in...
View Article'The Siggi' ?
Siegfried Lenz is still with is, but at 89 is thinking about his legacy, and so he's forming a Siegfried Lenz foundation -- and they've now announced that one of the things they'll be doing is...
View ArticleWole Soyinka Prize for Literature enthusiasm
Sounds good: in The Sun Ijeoma Opone and Christiana Eke report that Three African presidents to attend Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature, which is a better turn-out than you get for most...
View ArticleBiblioasis anniversary
In The Windsor Star Ted Shaw reports that Biblioasis celebrates 10 years of literary independence, as Biblioasis hits the decade mark as publisher -- including of some interesting international...
View ArticleSouth African short stories
South Africa is celebrating 20 Years of Freedom, and some of the celebrations are also literary. So, for example, they're trying to determine: "the best South African short stories published in...
View ArticleBuying local (down under)
In The Age Jane Sullivan reports on efforts to Support Australian authors, trying to drum up support (as government funding dries up ...) for local authors. She suggests: There is a...
View Article'A Thousand Years of the Persian Book'
The American Library of Congress has an exhibit on A Thousand Years of the Persian Book 27 March through 20 September, and that looks pretty good. Not much American media coverage, however --...
View ArticleAlessandro Baricco reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two Alessandro Baricco-titles, now being published together in a single volume by McSweeney's as Mr. Gwyn: Mr. Gwyn Three...
View Article(54) Greatest Indian novels ?
Via I learn of Saudamini Jain collecting the (fifty-four) 'Greatest Indian Novels ever' at the Hindustan Times -- see part I and part II. A jury of eight each selected their top ten (click on...
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