November Words without Borders
The November issue of Words without Borders is now up, with a focus on: Contemporary Czech Prose, as well as some 'Writers on Education'.
View ArticleThe Republic of Užupis review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Haïlji's The Republic of Užupis -- a Korean book set in Lithuania, dealing with both the real and the imaginary 'Republic of...
View Article'This prize is narrow-minded'
In the Bangkok Post Kong Rithdee reports that: 'Despite winning this year's SEA Write Award, Thai author Daen-Aran Saengthong says he won't be attending the presentation ceremony', in Out of...
View ArticleRare Book School
The Rare Book School at the University of Virginia -- providing: "continuing-education opportunities for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of written, printed, and...
View ArticlePalace of Books review
Not the most recent addition to the complete review -- somehow I missed mentioning this a couple of days ago -- but a review of Roger Grenier's Palace of Books is now up.
View ArticlePoetry: 'The Translation Issue'
The November issue of Poetry is The Translation Issue With 'Translator's Notes' to go with the impressive selection of poetry -- good stuff.
View ArticleJuan Goytisolo Q & A
At The White Review J.S.Tennant has an Interview with Juan Goytisolo. Disappointing that he is in "no rush to publish" -- especially that: "sort of hybrid text comprised of poetry,...
View ArticleMartin Chalmers (1948-2014)
Sad to hear that, as Katy Derbyshire reports at her love german books weblog, translator Martin Chalmers has passed away. Several of his translations are under review at the complete...
View ArticlePrix Médicis
The day before the Goncourt anouncement, they announced the prix Médicis-winners, with Antoine Volodine winning the fiction category for Terminus radieux (see the Seuil publicity page) and Lily...
View ArticleMurakami profile
Murakami Haruki -- who will pick up his not-quite-the-Nobel Welt-Literaturpreis (laudatio: Clemens J. Setz !) on Friday -- is profiled by Tim Martin in The Telegraph: "In America, or in...
View ArticleHonoring Arno Schmidt at 100
It's a good year for author-centenaries: Tove Jansson, Julio Cortázar, William S. Burroughs, among others. Among them also: Arno Schmidt, whose birthday was 18 January. Shockingly, his...
View ArticleLaureate for Irish Fiction nominees
They're picking a 'Laureate for Irish Fiction' for the first time -- a gig that will pay "a total of €150,000 over the three years" -- and the 119 submissions yielded a list 34 nominations....
View ArticleKarl Ove Knausgaard Q & A
At Hazlitt Kyle Buckley has 'The Novel is Like a Room' -- an Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard The My Struggle-author makes the completely devastating reveal: A Time for Everything was...
View ArticleFrench prize: Prix Renaudot
Second-fiddle to the Goncourt, but still prestigious, the prix Renaudot has gone to Charlotte by David Foenkinos. I haven't sen this, so I probably should reserve judgment, but ......
View ArticleFrench prize: Prix Goncourt
Pas pleurer, by Lydie Salvayre, has been awarded this year's prix Goncourt, the biggest (prestige-wise) of all the French literary prizes, beating out Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud...
View ArticlePatrick Modiano reviews
Yale University Press is bringing out the first new translation of book(s) by Patrick Modiano -- a collection of three novellas first published in French between 1988 and 1993, Suspended...
View ArticleEuropa bestsellers
In Publishers Weekly Europa Editions-publisher Kent Carroll 'considers what a small press needs to break out an author' in The Advent of a Bestseller, looking at their recent Elena Ferrante...
View ArticleDavid Bellos Q & A
At the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy weblog Eben Shapiro has a Q & A with David Bellos, The Art of Translation. He offers some advice: I would not urge anyone to take up...
View ArticlePatrick White Literary Award
They've announced that 'Brian Castro is the 2014 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award' -- "traditionally awarded to authors who 'have made a significant but inadequately recognised...
View ArticleEtisalat Prize for Literature finalists
The've announced the nine finalists for the Etisalat Prize for Literature; see, for example, South Africans Dominate the Longlist for 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature at the Books Live...
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