More Murakami !
Yes, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage just came out in English, but we're in for a Christmas-season treat as well, as Alexandra Alter reports in The New York Times that New...
View ArticlePremio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances
They've announced that this year's FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages will go to Blindly-author Claudio Magris; he will get his US$150,000 and the prize on 29 November, at the opening...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Iran
Iran generally doesn't strictly censor books: publishers must submit titles to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (yes, the name should give you a good idea of their sensibilities...
View ArticlePalanca Awards
In the Philippines, they've announced the winners of the 64th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Lots of categories, lots of winners -- and great to see such a variety of...
View ArticleTranslation Lunch Series
The Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University has a great Translation Lunch Series each semester, and the first part of the fall schedule is now up....
View ArticleThree Light-Years review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrea Canobbio's recent novel, Three Light-Years.
View ArticleNobel Prize odds speculation
Five weeks and counting, that seems the best bet as to when they'll announce this year's Nobel Prize in Literature; "The date will be set later" is the official stand (and will be until the...
View ArticleThe Front Seat Passenger review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pascal Garnier's The Front Seat Passenger -- the fourth Garnier title Gallic Books has brought out in the US this year, with one...
View ArticleJanus Pannonius költészeti nagydíj
PEN Hungary's Janus Pannonius költészeti nagydíj -- their big international poetry prize -- was awarded this year to both Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy (doubling down for credibility after the...
View ArticleDayton Literary Peace Prize finalists
They've announced the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalists, in fiction and non. "The Prize celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, social justice, and global...
View ArticleEven more Murakami !
Just a few days ago I mentioned that a new Murakami Haruki -- The Strange Library -- will be published later this year. Now comes word that, as Dianna Dilworth reports at GalleyCat, Haruki...
View ArticleFrench prize-longlists
Literary-prize season heats up in France now, too, as the two biggest prizes announced their longlists this week: the prix Renaudot on Tuesday, the prix Goncourt yesterday. The Renaudot...
View ArticleSouth Asian literature in translation (not) in the US
Mahmud Rahman has been exploring 'Why are so few South Asian translations published in the U.S.?' at the Asymptote weblog in some depth now -- see part iv -- but I now conclude that he and...
View ArticleAlbertine, coming soon
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York will be opening Albertine -- "a reading room and bookshop" -- 27 September; see also Albertine Books in French and English Will Open Its...
View ArticleAnna Karenina redux
A few years ago it was Don Quixote, more recently Madame Bovary; now Rosamund Bartlett asks -- apropos of her own new translation, forthcoming from Oxford University Press -- "Do we need...
View ArticleA Little Lumpen Novelita review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Roberto Bolaño's A Little Lumpen Novelita, now available in English from New Directions. Yet another Bolaño ? Yes -- but...
View ArticleWetlands - the movie
So they've finally released the film version of Charlotte Roche's ... remarkable novel, Wetlands, in the US (on this, the post-Labor Day and as a result apparently perennially lowest box-office...
View ArticleTranslation prizes, open for submission
A reminder, especially to publishers, about submitting titles for two of the major fiction-translation prizes in the UK and US: - In the UK you only have (only !) until 16 September to...
View ArticlePushkin Prize: declined
As, for example, The Moscow Times reports, Blaming Putin's Behavior, Dutch Literary Translator Refuses Pushkin Medal as Hans Boland (the name misspelled in this article) has declined the...
View ArticleThe Leavenworth Case review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Anna Katharine Green's 1878 The Leavenworth Case. Hey, it's been published in a Penguin Classics edition .....
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