In the Beginning was the Sea review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tomás González's In the Beginning was the Sea, just out in the UK from Pushkin Press, and due in the US early next year....
View ArticleTranslation from ... Hebrew
An interesting, wide-ranging piece from Jeffrey M. Green at Tablet, as 'A veteran practitioner of the art of translation considers the challenges -- and successes -- of Hebrew literature' in...
View ArticleWelt Literaturpreis
They've announced the winner of this year's Welt Literaturpreis and it's going to ... Murakami Haruki, who gets to pick up the €10,000 prize on 7 November (laudatio to be delivered by Clemens...
View ArticleThe Hindu Prize shortlist
They've announced the six-title shortlist for this year's The Hindu Prize, which includes several debuts, as well as a book by Shashi Deshpande. (A pretty impressive judging panel, too.)
View ArticlePrix de la Page 111
A major award for Writers-author Antoine Volodine ! The prize ? The Prix de la Page 111, now in its third year, the winner selected after 111 minutes of deliberation from eight finalists...
View ArticleSelf-publishing in ... Zimbabwe
In The Herald Stanely Mushava considers The self-publishing, mediocrity debate. Admittedly, this could be written/said about pretty much anywhere (and often is): Self-publishing, as it...
View ArticleFrankfurt Book Fair
A busy literary week, with the possible/likely announcement of the Nobel Prize on Thursday, as well as the weeklong mega-convention that is the Frankfurt Book Fair. This usually gets...
View ArticleNobel week
Nobel Prize announcement week kicks off today with the announcement of the winner(s) of the "Physiology or Medicine" award. More importantly, the Swedish Academy announces today whether or not...
View ArticlePavane for a Dead Princess review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Park Min-gyu's Pavane for a Dead Princess, another volume in Dalkey Archive Press' Library of Korean Literature.
View ArticleGiller Prize shortlist
They've announced the six finalists for the Canadian Scotiabank Giller Prize, selected from a longlist of twelve (and 161 submissions overall). I'm afraid I haven't seen any of these.
View ArticleGerman Book Prize
They've announced the winner of the German Book Prize, and it goes to Kruso, by Lutz Seiler -- the clear favorite coming in (for two months in a row it's topped the German critics' 'best' list,...
View ArticleNobel countdown: two days and counting (and betting ...)
Yes, they've announced that the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, 9 October, at 13:00 local time (noon GMT). So they've decided on a winner ........
View ArticlePrize: ALTA NTA shortlist
They've announced the five finalists for the American Literary Translators Association's 2014 National Translation Award -- "the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary...
View ArticlePrizes: Governor General's Literary Awards finalists
They've announced th finalists for the Canadian Governor General's Literary Awards -- many, many awards, in both English and French. The GGs are to be lauded -- praised to the skies ! --...
View ArticlePrize: Prix Goncourt, round two
The most prestigious French literary prize, the prix Goncourt, is the rare four-round prize -- squeezing in a short-longlist between the usual longlist/shortlist/winner way of proceeding -- and...
View ArticlePrize: Premio Nacional de Narrativa
The Spanish Premio Nacional de Narrativa is a leading novel-prize awarded by the Spanish government, worth a decent €20,000, and it's probably no surprise that they've announced that En la...
View ArticleSiegfried Lenz (1926-2014)
Popular German author Siegfried Lenz has passed away; see, for example German author Siegfried Lenz dies, aged 88 -- or longer (German) tributes such as Ein Virtuose der Nachsicht (Wolfgang...
View ArticleNobel countdown: one day and counting (and betting ...)
The nail-biting begins, as we enter the last hours before the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, tomorrow at 13:00 local time (noon GMT). - Last-day (which is...
View ArticleAmerican (self-)publishing
In Publishers Weekly Jim Milliot reports that Self-Published Books Topped 450,000 in 2013 in the US, an increase of 16.5 per cent. What's really surprising: The increase was due entirely...
View ArticlePrize: Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction -- not at the official site, as of yet, though it will presumably show up here soon, but there have been newspaper...
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