Prize: European Union Prize for Literature
They've announced the winners of the European Union Prize for Literature -- all thirteen of them -- though they only identify authors (and nationality) in the official announcement, despite...
View ArticleThe Nobel Prize in Literature goes to ...
The winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced at 13:00 Stockholm time, and you can watch the webcast of the announcement live. I will update this post shortly after the...
View ArticleThe Giraffe's Neck review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Judith Schalansky's Darwinian novel, The Giraffe's Neck -- subtitled a Bildungsroman in the German original (though not in the...
View ArticleJay Rubin Q&A
At the Asymptote weblog Ryan Mihaly is In Conversation with Jay Rubin -- the author of Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, and translator of several Murakami novels. Interesting that...
View ArticlePatrick Modiano, Nobel laureate (cont'd)
So Patrick Modiano is the 2014 Nobel laureate -- and those official pages are a good source for much of the basic information about him and the prize. See also yesterday's post for early...
View ArticleRosamund Bartlett Q & A
Two new translations of Anna Karenina are coming out this fall, by Rosamund Bartlett and Marian Schwartz, respectively -- see my previous mention -- and at Russia Beyond the Headlines Alexandra...
View ArticleNigeria Prize for Literature
The Nigeria Prize for Literature rotates through four genres -- this was a year for drama -- so my interest rather ebbs between the fiction-announcements; still, worth noting -- even as they...
View Article'100 best Christian books' ?
The (Anglican) Church Times has put together a list of the 100 best Christian books; at the TLS weblog one of the judges, Rupert Shortt, comments on the making of this list, in 100 good godly...
View ArticleTranslation (not) in the US
At The New Yorker Vauhini Vara wonders Do You Have to Win a Nobel Prize to Be Translated ? While the situation isn't quite so dire, big prize-wins tend to help a lot -- but perhaps only...
View ArticleLast Winter, We Parted review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nakamura Fuminori's Last Winter, We Parted. This is the third Nakamura thriller translated into English (by Soho Press),...
View ArticleNew Swedish Book Review
The 2014:2 Issue of the Swedish Book Review is now (partially) available online. Not the book reviews, alas, but Karin Boye's Linköping Cathedral February 1938, introduced and translated by...
View ArticleBookselling in ... Saudi Arabia
Via I'm pointed to Rodolfo C. Estimo Jr.'s Arab News report, Bookstores urged to rethink strategies, as the number of bookstores selling secondhand books in the Saudi capital is apparently...
View ArticleZombies and Calculus review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Colin Adams' Zombies and Calculus. Not exactly my usual fare, but I have a soft spot (one of many ...) for mathematical...
View Article'K-fiction'
In The Korea Herald Ahn Sung-mi reports that Young writers debut on global literary scene, as the latest series of bilingual stories published by ASIA Publishers presents five books by younger...
View ArticleРусскийБукер finalists
One more among the literary laureates and finalists announced last week: they've announced the shortlist for the Russian 'Booker' prize. Lizok's Bookshelf has an English overview -- and,...
View ArticleThe other Min kamp
I'm looking forward to the day when a mention of the title is naturally assumed to refer to the Knausgaard-book(s), but for now the original Mein Kampf remains the contentious work of reference...
View ArticleThe Book of Sins review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Chen Xiwo's The Book of Sins, just out in English.
View ArticleMan Booker shortlist sales figures
The winner of this year's Man Booker Prize will be announced today, and in The Telegraph Anita Singh notes that one title towers above the others -- at least as far as UK sales figures goes, as...
View ArticlePrize for Catholic literature
At The Washington Post's 'Style Blog' (?) Ron Charles writes about a New $25,000 prize for Catholic literary arts, the George W. Hunt Prize. (There doesn't seem to be any dedicated website or...
View ArticleTranslations from ... Greek
In the Irish Times Richard Pine worries that: 'Bureaucratic and fitful support for translators risks hampering authors', as Greek literature risks getting lost in translation. As long as...
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