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Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis
The Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis -- where German-writing authors read texts out loud and are judged on the spot, in a competition also broadcast live on TV -- was decided yesterday, and they...
View ArticleThe Mad and the Bad review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jean-Patrick Manchette's 1972 novel, The Mad and the Bad, which New York Review Books is bringing out. This is the fourth...
View ArticleBook preview - what's left of 2014
The Millions now offer their The Great Second-Half 2014 Book Preview -- noting: The list that follows isn't exhaustive -- no book preview could be -- but, at over 8,000 words strong and...
View ArticleEnglish PEN translation support
English PEN has announced which titles will be getting their 2014 'awards for promotion' and 'grants for translation' (with some lucky titles doubling up, getting both translation and...
View ArticleAmazon v. Hachette
The ongoing Amazon v. Hachette dispute is a fascinating train wreck of mega-corporate 'negotiations', with Amazon's latest salvo the inspired one of trying to undermine Hachette from within by...
View Article(UK) author earnings
Depressing word from ALCS, where New research into authors' earnings released, their survey What Are Words Worth Now ? (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) finding, from the near-2500 authors that...
View ArticleJan Michalski Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist -- well, the "First selection of the Jury" -- for the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize ("awarded for a work of world literature in the fiction and non fiction categories,...
View ArticleMirror of Dew review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of The Poetry of Ālam-Tāj Zhāle Qā'em-Maqāmi, Mirror of Dew, translated and with an introduction by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab. This...
View Article'Japanese Illustrated Books'
Via I'm pointed to the nice online display the Metropolitan Museum has of their newly-acquired 'Japanese Illustrated Books' -- some really nice stuff. And again an excuse to remind you...
View ArticleBookselling in France
In The New York Times Pamela Druckerman has an op-ed suggesting The French Do Buy Books. Real Books. noting that bookselling In France isn't quite like in the US. Notably, there are more...
View ArticlePrize-winning French fiction in English (and not)
Nicely done: at French Culture Juliette Coirier and Sophie Thunberg collect information about Award-Winning French Novels, looking at the 112 books that were nominated for or that won sixteen...
View ArticleLiterary politicians
At USA Today they offer Daniel Lefferts' list of The 7 most literary politicians in history (pretty much what he originally offered at Bookish in The Most Literary Politicians in History, just...
View ArticleAmos Oz to get inaugural Siggi
I recently mentioned that, in tidying up his affairs, German author Siegfried Lenz has established a biennial 'Siegfried-Lenz-Preis', an author prize that, at €50,000 vaults into the top tiers,...
View ArticleWole Soyinka turns 80
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka turns 80 tomorrow, so it's good to see him get a bit of attention. At Deutsche Welle Thomas Mösch profiles him, in Nigerian Nobel laureate in literature Wole...
View ArticleTranslation support
There's translation support and there's translation support: Geisteswissenschaften International -- 'Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences' -- certainly lends a...
View ArticleBookselling in ... South Korea
In The Korea Herald Chung Joo-won finds examples of how local Small, unique booksellers survive competition. Always nice to see -- and that 'Your Mind; locale sure does look impressive...
View ArticleThe Symmetry Teacher review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrei Bitov's The Symmetry Teacher. I've repeatedly mentioned this, as one of the 2014 translations I was most eager to...
View ArticleAuthors recommend summer reads
In The Guardian they get a decent number of big-name authors to suggest their Best holiday reads 2014. Tucked in here is also some information I haven't heard elsewhere yet: one of those...
View ArticleTim Parks on global lit.
Can books cross borders ? Tim Parks mulls over once again, this time in the Financial Times, trying to frame the question around the current 'debate on the British school literature syllabus'....
View ArticleBook-objects
In The New York Times Eve M. Kahn writes about Collecting Books That Are Just Covers -- any object: "that looks like a book but is not one". This sounds/looks pretty neat -- but I have...
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