Pre-Arabian Tales
A neat-sounding volume coming out from Penguin Classics is Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange -- described by Robert Irwin in (what I assume is) his Introduction, here reprinted in...
View ArticlePrize: ALTA NTA
The American Literary Translators Association's National Translation Award winner has been announced; since they're ... between websites, the only notice I could find was the Twitter mention:...
View ArticlePrize: AKO Literatuuurprijs
They've announced that Oorlog en terpentijn, by Stefan Hertmans, has won this year's AKO Literatuuurprijs -- one of the leading (and, at €50,000, most remunerative) Dutch literary prizes; the...
View ArticleChildren Come by Ship review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Oliver Friggieri's Children Come by Ship -- the first title translated from the Maltese under review at the complete review.
View ArticleDwight Garner Q & A
At The New York Times' 'Times Insider' Susan Lehman has a Book Reviewer Tell-All: Dwight Garner on Reading, Reviewing and Avoiding Blindness with The New York Times' book reviewer....
View ArticleMao's little book
Among the bestselling books of all time (okay, like that other big 'seller', the Bible, more copies were probably given away than actually sold) is Mao Tse-Tung's (as he was...
View ArticleGerman literary prize: Roswitha Literaturpreis
The Roswitha-Preis is apparently the German variation on the English-language prize that use to be called the Orange Prize -- though it's been around considerably longer. At €5,500 it's...
View ArticleGerman literary prize: Bremer Literaturpreis
It seems like one -- or indeed several -- German literary prizes are being awarded daily, and yesterday they announced that Marcel Beyer takes this year's Bremer Literaturpreis -- a rare German...
View ArticleBooks in ... Burma
At CNN Alisha Haridasani reports that Myanmar comes in from cold with bookish revival, finding a literary and reading revival -- though with a long way to go: A local library I visited in Bagan...
View ArticleMargaret Drabble Q & A
At The Believer online, Lydia Perović has a Q & A with A.S.Byatt's sister, Margaret Drabble, a fine writer in her own right. I certainly like her attitude towards historical fiction...
View ArticleJaume Cabré profile
Jaume Cabré's Confessions is now out in English (in the UK ... and elsewhere, having apparently already sold 60,000 copies in Poland; see Bestsellery z wysokiej półki), and in The Scotsman...
View ArticleTranslations from ...Chinese
The Translation Databases at Three Percent offer a good overview of most of what has been translated into English and published in the US in 2014, from all languages (though the upcoming long...
View ArticleLeave Me Alone review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Novel of Chengdu by Murong Xuecun, Leave Me Alone. This first came out in English from Allen & Unwin in Australia,...
View ArticleNew issue(s)/look for list
_list Books from Korea has a new (confusing and messy) look to their site, which doesn't seem to be quite all there yet. The Summer, 2014 issue, which I had not previously seen/linked to is...
View ArticlePoetry in ... Poland
At Eurozine they reprint Lukasz Wojtusik's Q & A with Polish poet Ewa Lipska from New Eastern Europe, A musician of words. For a Lipska-sampler, check out The New Century; see the...
View Article'Literary' agents
At The New Republic Stephen Akey writes about 'The problem with literary agents', in My Book Is Not About Vampires or Childhood Trauma. I'm Doomed. "I have no problem with the role...
View ArticleWhitbread Costa shortlists
They've announced the category shortlists for the Whitbread Costa Book Awards -- though not yet at the official site, last I checked .... See, for example, the report in The Telegraph....
View ArticleDavid R. Godine profile
In the Boston Globe Mark Shanahan profiles David R. Godine (of the eponymous publishing house), in Beyond sales, Boston publisher's devotion speaks volumes. Godine now famously published...
View Article'Public Domain Rank' for authors ?
Allen B. Riddell's 'Public Domain Rank: Identifying Notable Individuals with the Wisdom of the Crowd' (see abstract or (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) full text) is an interesting attempt at:...
View ArticleThe Three-Body Problem review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem -- one of this year's most anticipated translations, as the first blockbuster science fiction...
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