Kurdish literature
Dalkey's Georgian Literature Series and holding the 80th PEN International Congress (right now !) in Bishek (Kyrgyzstan) helps, but this Central Asian/Caucasian stretch of former Soviet states...
View Articleსაბა literary awards
They've been handing out the საბა literary awards in (former Soviet, not US) Georgia annually for over a decade now, and they seem pretty well established as a leading local literary prize;...
View Article'A Women's Prize for Translated Books' ?
At her love german books weblog Katy Derbyshire proposes A Women's Prize for Translated Books -- which, given the sad situation that far more fiction written by men gets translated into English...
View ArticleDannie Abse (1921-2014)
Best known as a poet, Dannie Abse has passed away; see, for example, Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and author, dies aged 91 in The Guardian and Cardiff-born poet Dannie Abse dies aged 91 (with more...
View ArticleNobel Prize countdown
Last I checked, the Nobel Prize in Literature page still had a blank in the space for specifying: "2014 Literature Prize will be announced at the earliest in:"; if the Swedish Academy has...
View ArticleThe Man Between review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Open Letter's tribute-volume to Michael Henry Heim & A Life in Translation, The Man Between, edited by Esther Allen, Sean...
View ArticleLyudmila Ulitskaya profile
In the current issue of The New Yorker Masha Gessen profiles Lyudmila Ulitskaya -- surely also one of the maybe two dozen authors in the serious running for the Nobel Prize. As Gessen...
View ArticlePrizes: Cundill Prize shortlist
Although Canada-based, the folks behind the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature know a loonie is just a loonie and so offer their pay-out in real money: US dollars [I kid, I kid; please --...
View ArticleTwo for Meursault, contre-enquête
I was excited to recently see the fascinating-sounding variation-on-Camus by Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, make the first cuts of both the Goncourt and the Renaudot -- the two leading...
View ArticleStreaming Gilmore Girls
Apparently it's big news that Netflix will be streaming the TV show Gilmore Girls starting today. As someone who does not use/have Netflix I don't really know what this actually means, but I've...
View ArticleSamar Yazbek Q & A
At Qantara.de Claudia Kramatschek has a Q & A with Syrian author Samar Yazbek, Divided society, divided souls. The book they discuss, which has just come out in German, is available...
View ArticleForward Prizes for Poetry
They've announced (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) the winners of the Forward Prizes for Poetry, with Kei Miller's The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion taking the £10,000 best collection...
View ArticleThe last 100 reviews
So having reached (and now passed) 3400 reviews at the complete review it's time to look at the numbers re. the past 100 reviews (3301-3400): - the 100 reviews were posted in 181 days...
View ArticleBetrayal review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a new translation of the second of Giorgio Scerbanenco's Duca Lamberti-quartet, published as Betrayal by Hersilia Press last...
View Article파주북소리 !
It's time -- from tomorrow through 12 October -- for 파주 북소리 -- Paju Booksori, the big book festival at South Korea's famous 'book city'. In the Korea JoongAng Ilbo Kim Hyung-Eun has an...
View ArticlePrize: Berliner Literaturpreis
Another day, another German author prize announcement (several, actually, but this seems like the most noteworthy one): they've announced that Olga Martynova will get next year's Berliner...
View ArticlePrize: Goldsmiths Prize shortlist
They've announced the six-title shortlist for this year's Goldsmiths Prize -- a £10,000-prize: "awarded to a book that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that...
View ArticleBeautiful German books ?
The German have a prize for the most beautiful books of the year and, ridiculously, call it, in semi-English, The Beauty and the Book. They've now announced their ten finalists -- and I...
View ArticleLolita in Persian
At Sampsonia Way Yaghoub Yadali reports on Lolita in Kabul, as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita has been translated into Persian but could not be published in Iran -- and instead has now been...
View ArticleNobel notes
So, at the earliest, we'll learn who this year's Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is next Thursday (we'll learn on Monday whether they'll be announcing it on the 9th; if they remain silent,...
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