DSC Prize for South Asian Literature longlist
They've announced the ten-title strong longlist for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. A couple of real heavyweights on the list: books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Hosseini, and...
View ArticleInternational publishing statistics
In The Bookseller Joshua Farrington reports that IPA: UK publishers 'published most in the world' in 2013, summarizing the new International Publishing Association Annual Report (warning !...
View ArticleNobel-effect on Modiano sales
So far there have been few articles about the sales-effect of the announcement that Patrick Modiano is this year's Nobel laureate -- in part, in the US/UK, no doubt because almost none of his...
View ArticleClaude Ollier (1922-2014)
At 91, French author Claude Ollier has passed away; he published his last book ... last year: Cinq contes fantastiques (see the P.O.L. publicity page). Surprisingly little notice of his death...
View ArticleChinese reforms
I mentioned Chinese president Xi Jinping's recent address on cultural production in China and, regrettably, it already seems to be having some effect. In the South China Morning Post Nectar Gan...
View ArticleAli A. Mazrui (1933-2014)
I'm a bit late in reporting this -- he passed away on the 12th -- but Ali A. Mazrui has died; see, for example, Douglas Martin's obituary in The New York Times or Horace G. Campbell on The...
View ArticleThe King review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Dutch-writing Iranian author Kader Abdolah's The King, now also available in the US in an edition from New Directions.
View ArticleNeustadt Festival
The Neustadt Festival -- culminating in The Tuner of Silences-author Mia Couto picking up the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature -- started yesterday; see the full program.
View ArticlePolizzotti on translating Modiano
Mark Polizzotti -- translator of the forthcoming Yale University Press three-in-one collection by newly crowned Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences (see their publicity page, or...
View ArticlePrize shortlists: Prix Femina
They've announced the shortlists for the French prix Femina -- notable because it has three categories: fiction (French), foreign fiction, and non-fiction. There doesn't seem to be an...
View ArticlePrize shortlist: T.S.Eliot Prize
They've announced the ten-title shortlist -- selected from 113 (unnamed, sigh) book submitted for consideration -- for the T.S.Eliot Prize.
View ArticlePer Petterson Q&A
At PEN Atlas Tasja Dorkofikis has a Q&A with Per Petterson, author of I Curse the River of Time, etc.
View ArticleNew World Literature Today
The November-December issue of World Literature Today, with a focus on 'After the Wall Fell: Dispatches from Central Europe 1989-2014', is now available, a decent chunk of it accessible online...
View ArticleThe publishing-wait in Iran
Books in Iran generally aren't officially censored -- publishers are just denied the permission needed to actually publish them. All books need to get official permission, and while permission...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Q & A
In the Indianpolis Star Will Higgins has a Q & A with Jonathan Franzen. J-Franz reveal his favorite TV shows, how many bird species he's seen (2,600 worldwide), and the fact that...
View ArticleForeign children's classics in the Soviet Union
At Russia Beyond the Headlines Alena Tveritina reports that: 'In Soviet children's literature, retellings and altered versions of foreign classics captivated society far more than translations...
View ArticleWilliam Hill Sports Book of the Year shortlist
They've apparently announced the shortlist for the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year (though not yet at the official site, last I checked); see, for example, Graham Sharpe on the...
View ArticleImraan Coovadia profile
Imraan Coovadia's new novel, Tales of the Metric System, is just out in South Africa (see the Random House Struik publicity page or the Pontas Agency information page), and in the Mail &...
View ArticleWriting in ... Belarus
No worries -- as reported by BelTA: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko does not believe that the Belarusian literature has plunged into the twilight. So that's settled ........
View ArticleTranslating Murakami
I missed this, many months ago when it first appeared, but it's definitely worth pointing to: at nippon.com Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit writes on Orchestrating Translations: The Case of Murakami...
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