Victoria review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of 1920 Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun's Victoria.
View Article'World Editions'
In The Bookseller Anna James reports that Visser of De Geus launches English language publisher -- which is to be called World Editions. (The current World Editions site doesn't quite capture...
View Article(Australian) Prime Minister's Literary Awards ?
Another prize for which Richard Flanagan's Man Booker-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North is presumably a favorite is the 2014 (Australian) Prime Minister's Literary Awards -- but that...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize
They've announced that The Narrow Road to the Deep North (by Richard Flanagan) has been awarded the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. See also Flanagan's acceptance speech, as well as a...
View ArticleDonna Leon, not in Italian
In The Guardian Lizzy Davies explores Who is the real Italian novelist writing as Elena Ferrante ? as the identity-hiding author (of The Days of Abandonment, etc.) has really taken off as of...
View Article(American) National Book Awards finalists
They've announced the finalists for the (American) National Book Awards. As usual: I haven't reviewed or read any of these (though at least I have a copy of the Marilynne Robinson, and...
View ArticleFall issue of Asypmtote
The October 2014 issue of Asypmtote is now available online, with a theme of: 'mythology'. Lots of great material, so just work your way through.
View ArticleCobra review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Deon Meyer's latest thriller, Cobra.
View ArticleMikita Brottman Q & A
At boingboing they have a Q & A with The Solitary Vice-author Mikita Brottman, Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life.
View ArticleSergei Dovlatov profile
Eurozine reprints Vladimir Yermakov's look at Sergei Dovlatov, dissident sans idea, considering the dichotomy that 'All but invisible in his home country, Sergei Dovlatov became something of a...
View ArticleDe Sade exhibit
A Marquis de Sade exhibit, 'Sade, attaquer le soleil', has opened at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris -- complete with supplementary website and near-X-rated video trailer, Une exposition, un regard....
View ArticleHandke: abolish the Nobel Prize !
Sore loser ? Annoyed by the annual distraction ? Whatever the case, Peter Handke thinks it's time to abolish the damn thing -- the Nobel Prize in Literature: that's what he said Thursday, Die...
View ArticleMarilynne Robinson profile
In The Telegraph Jane Mulkerrins profiles Marilynne Robinson: the Pulitzer Prize winning author on her new book.
View ArticleToni Morrison's papers to Princeton
Princeton University has announced that Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's papers will join their library-collection -- about 180 linear feet worth (and counting, presumably). No word, alas, how...
View ArticleWriting in ... China
While on the one hand, as reported at Livemint, Publishers aim to take Chinese literature to the world, the local authorities haven't all gotten the memo -- or rather: they're sticking with an...
View ArticleLimonov review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Emmanuel Carrère pseudo(?)-biographical 2011 prix Renaudot-winning Limonov -- rather desperately subtitled in the US edition: The...
View ArticleJudging the Man Booker
The obligatory 'judging the Man Booker Prize'-piece comes from Sarah Churchwell at The Guardian's book blog, where she writes about The joys of judging the Man Booker prize. (I enjoy...
View Article(German) art-in-literature database
The University of Vienna has put up an online Datenbank literarischer Bildzitate, a database of some 1,500 references to works of art in modern German literature, searchable by author, artwork,...
View ArticleThe Fall review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Father's Memoir in 424 Steps, Diogo Mainardi's The Fall.
View ArticleAugustpriset shortlists
They've announced the shortlists for the Augustpriset, one of the leading Swedish literary prizes.
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