Taiwanese fiction abroad
In Taiwan Today June Tsai reports that CCA beefs up support for Taiwan literary translation. That would be the Council for Cultural Affairs -- and: Under the council's subsidy program, a...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Sumiyakist Q review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kurahashi Yumiko's 1969 novel, The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q. Yes, this does immediately qualify as one of the most...
View ArticlePrizes: Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Prize
They've announced that Susan Bernofsky will receive this year's Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, for her translation of Hese's Siddharta, and her translation-work in general; the prize is worth...
View ArticleThe Inscrutable Americans review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Anurag Mathur's Indian innocent-abroad classic from 1991, The Inscrutable Americans. In a 2005 interview he noted that he...
View ArticlePrizes: Translation Prizes
They handed out the Translation Prizes yesterday -- a batch of five this year, for translations from the Arabic, Dutch/Flemish, French, German, and Spanish -- and at the TLS Adrian Tahourdin...
View ArticleFestival Neue Literatur 2012
The Festival Neue Literatur 2012 -- bringing: "six of the best up-and-coming German-language authors to New York" -- runs 10 through 12 February, moderated by Liesl Schillinger (see her preview...
View ArticleKids Lit 101
Yes, it's always nice to see college kids actually take some literature courses and read some books, but I can't help but feel a bit disappointed that at Princeton -- an institution of higher...
View ArticleAdonis profile, and more
In The National Ben East doubles up with Adonis coverage, reporting first that Adonis's translator shares details of his own nuanced art (that would be recent Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for...
View ArticleTelegram Books' Lynn Gaspard profiled
At Publishing Perspectives Roger Tagholm profiles Telegram Books publisher Lynn Gaspard, in Publishing as Politics, Publishing with Purpose.
View ArticleA Certain Smile review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Françoise Sagan's 1956 novel (published in English translation the same year), A Certain Smile, which the University of Chicago...
View ArticleHatchet Job of the Year Award
They've announced the winner of the first Hatchet Job of the Year Award (though not yet at that official site, last I checked ...), and "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of...
View ArticleKertész Imre Q and A
Le Monde has a (French) Q & A with Kertész Imre, "La Hongrie est une fatalité".
View ArticleBookninja looks back
A year ago today George Murray posted for the last time at longtime-favorite literary weblog Bookninja, and in the National Post he now reflects on eight years of blogging, in Exit the...
View ArticlePreis der Leipziger Buchmesse shortlists
They've announced the fifteen finalists in the three categories (fiction, non, and translation) for this year's Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse, with 147 publishers having submitted 470 titles...
View ArticleDavid Bellos profile
In News at Princeton Paul Karr describes how Language expert Bellos explores the art and science of translation. That's David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear ? -- which, it's great...
View ArticleOn Rereading review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Patricia Meyer Spacks On Rereading.
View ArticleKorean literature abroad
In The Korea Herald Claire Lee reports that KLTI reaches out to global literary market, as she talks to new Korea Literature Translation Institute-head Kim Seong-kon. He suggests: Each...
View ArticleForeign literature in ... Japan
At Publishing Perspectives Robin Birtle thinks he can explain Why Foreign Bestsellers Often Fail in Japan. Among the reasons: The Japanese equivalents of mass market paperbacks, bunko,...
View ArticleDickens sales chart
This looks pretty iffy, but maybe gives some idea of how well Charles Dickens' books did in his day, as The Economist offers a chart of the Sales of Charles Dickens's books in his lifetime...
View ArticleAlex Epstein's newest book
As Maya Sela reports in And for his next trick ... in Haaretz, 'Fed up with the way his books were being handled by local publishers and bookstores, experimental novelist Alex Epstein chose to...
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