Ananthamurthy as translator
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago (and as no major US/UK media outlet appears yet to have realized ...), leading Indian author U.R.Ananthamurthy has passed away; among the many interesting...
View ArticleFuture Library
This has gotten a lot of press already, but this Future Library is a project with some decent potential. As they describe the concept: A thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a...
View ArticleMan Booker shortlist
They've announced the six-title shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction. This is the first year that they waived the citizenship requirement (previously: Commonwealth plus...
View ArticleBoom ? Bust ? Literature in translation !
A few weeks ago Dalya Alberge wrote in The Observer how, supposedly, British readers lost in translations as foreign literature sales boom -- a piece I found ... a bit problematic; at MobyLives...
View ArticleThe Alp review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Arno Camenisch's The Alp -- the first in a trilogy, published by Dalkey Archive Press. This was originally written in...
View ArticleJill Schoolman Q & A
At Bomb Bibi Deitz has a Q & A with Archipelago Books' Jill Schoolman Among the reveals: alternate names considered for the publisher: Ship of Fools and Terra Incognita.
View ArticleGerman Book Prize shortlist
The day after they announced the six-title shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction they announced the six-title shortlist for this year's imitation-Man Booker German Book Prize....
View ArticleTranslating The Poetic Edda (again)
At the OUPblog Carolyne Larrington writes about "Young girl, I declare you are not like most men": retranslating The Poetic Edda, as she got a chance to revisit her translation, first published...
View ArticleGogol exhibit
In The Moscow Times Kit Rees reports on an art installation at the Gogol House Museum, in Gogol Lives Again in New Wing of House. The exhibit is called #АВТОРЖЖЕТ and looks pretty neat;...
View ArticleThe Meteor Hunt review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jules Verne's The Meteor Hunt, the University of Nebraska Press 2006 edition that restored the text to Verne's original (more or...
View ArticleAKO Literatuurprijs longlist
They've announced the 25-title strong longlist for the AKO Literatuurprijs, one of the leading Dutch literary prizes. Among the books in the running: ones by authors with (other) titles...
View Article'100 Best Novels, in Translation, Since 1900' ?
Ah, the irresistible lure of the list -- and novels in translation since 1900 ? Sounds promising. It's Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn who offer up their personal (and ranked)...
View ArticleApproving books in ... the Maldives
You'd figure they might have more pressing concerns in the Maldives -- the 1000+ island nation of barely 350,000 is infamously the lowest-lying in the world, and likely to go under as sea...
View ArticleSingapore Literature Prize shortlists
They had some issues with the judges this year at the Singapore Literature Prize -- several withdrawing over the controversy surrounding the National Library Board withdrawing and pulping three...
View ArticlePer Olov Enquists Pris
Since 2005 (Juli Zeh) they've awarded the Per Olov Enquists Pris annually at the Göteborg Book Fair, and this year Dorthe Nors tilldelas årets PO Enquist-pris, as the Karate Chop-author will...
View ArticleInternational Congress of Translators
At Russia Beyond the Headlines they report on the III. Международный конгресс переводчиков художественной литературы -- the recently held Third International Congress of Translators -- in A...
View ArticleMurakami Haruki profile
In The Guardian Steven Poole profiles Haruki Murakami: 'I'm an outcast of the Japanese literary world. Critics, writers, many of them don't like me'. (I sort of get that pretty much every...
View ArticleJuja review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nino Haratischwili's Juja. This 2010 novel was her debut -- and it was longlisted for the German Book Prize; she's been...
View ArticleKorean literature abroad
After the apparent success of Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mom abroad the Koreans are apparently busy, as Kwon Mee-yoo reports in The Korea Times, Looking for next Shin Kyung-sook....
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