Raja Rao revival ?
Apparently Penguin Books India has recently re-issued four Raja Rao titles -- Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Cat and Shakespeare, and a volume of Collected Stories (though I can't...
View ArticleAnother dramatist prize for Handke
Just a couple of weeks ago Peter Handke picked up the International Ibsen Award, the biggest international dramatist award, and while he was again overlooked for the Nobel, they've now...
View ArticleTranslating A True Novel
I was very impressed by Mizumura Minae's A True Novel last year, and via I'm now pointed to a post by Avery Fischer Udagawa at the SCBWI Japan Translation Group weblog, where translator Juliet...
View ArticleUncultured minister ?
Fleur Pellerin may be French Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication but as far as culture goes ... well, as for example Anne Penketh reports in The Guardian, Modiano, who ? French...
View ArticleThe Horrors of Love review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jean Dutourd's 1963 novel, The Horrors of Love. The University of Chicago Press have one Dutourd title in print -- A Dog's...
View ArticleMulisch festival
Harry ! the Harry Mulisch Festival runs tomorrow through 2 November, and the great Dutch master is always celebrating. An ... interesting program: I'm not so sure about those book...
View ArticlePrix Goncourt final four
They've now announced the final cut, leaving just four titles in the running for the biggest of the French book prizes, the prix Goncourt. One of the favorites -- Eric Reinhardt's...
View ArticleThe Strange Library review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Murakami Haruki's The Strange Library, coming out in early December in (different-looking and -illustrated) US and UK editions.
View ArticleHong Kong International Literary Festival
The Hong Kong International Literary Festival runs 31 October through 9 November. Sorry, but The Translator and the Translated event is already sold out.
View ArticleArnon Grunberg retrospective
"The University of Amsterdam will present a major retrospective exhibition" on Tirza-author Arnon Grunberg 31 October through 1 February, as described here. It apparently has the (sad, German)...
View ArticleLiterary prizes in ... Zimbabwe
In The Herald Beaven Tapureta argues that We need literary awards in Zimbabwe. Of course, the whole writing/publishing infra- and all other structures could use some help in Zimbabwe,...
View ArticleNupe literature
The Nigerian Tribune has a Q & A with Isyaku Bala Ibrahim, who argues Nupe literature has come of age. Among his responses: What do you think are the factors hampering Nupe...
View ArticleFrench Global goes ... French
A book I've mentioned a couple of times and have long found fascinating is French Global: A New Approach to Literary History, published by Columbia University Press in 2010 (see their publicity...
View ArticleAsia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award
They've announced that the 2014 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award (and its $20,000 prize) goes to The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and A Forgotten Genocide, by Gary Bass, selected "...
View ArticleNo more Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards
Very disappointing news: they've announced that the wonderful SF&F Translation Awards Closing Down; see also Cheryl Morgan -- one of the directors of the association running the awards --...
View ArticleNordic Council Literature Prize
They've announced that Hägring 38, by Swedish-writing Finnish author Kjell Westö has won this year's Nordic Council Literature Prize -- the biggest (and pan-)Scandinavian literature prize,...
View ArticleRosa Liksom's locales
At Eurozine they have an English version of Rosa Liksom's Wespennest piece, Finland, Lapland, Russia and me. She explains, for example, that: Our native language is called Meänkieli --...
View ArticleGlas suspends activities
I have long admired the work of Glas, publishers of Russian literature in English translation for almost a quarter of a century now. Only half a dozen (of their 75) titles are under review at...
View ArticleProfile: Intizar Husain
This week's Wordsmith-column in The Hindu asks the when/how/where/what from Basti- and A Chronicle of the Peacocks-author Intizar Husain. Never mind typewriters, much less computers: I...
View ArticleProfile: Nakamura Fuminori
In The Japan Times Iain Maloney profiles Nakamura Fuminori, in Fuminori writes noir, but not as we know it -- with a focus on Nakamura's latest to appear in English, Last Winter, We Parted....
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