Korean Literature Translation Awards
The Korea Times prints the judges' report -- by Brother Anthony, Jung Ha-yun, and Min Eun-kyung -- for the 45th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards. One of their more positive...
View ArticleKertész Q & A
At hlo they reprint an excerpt from An interview with Imre Kertész by Thomas Cooper from The Hungarian Quarterly. See also my review of Kertész's The Holocaust as Culture, which is...
View ArticleCubanabooks
The number of recently and newly-founded presses devoted to literature in translation continues to impress -- the promising Deep Vellum just released its first title, for example, and the still...
View Article(American) National Book Awards
They've announced the winners of the 2014 (American) National Book Awards. Redeployment, by Phil Klay, won the fiction prize; I can imagine almost no circumstances under which I would...
View ArticleComing to NY: Russian Literature Week !
It's Russian Literature Week ! 1 to 5 December. Some pretty interesting-sounding panels, definitely worth a look.
View ArticleComing to NY: New Literature from Europe festival
This year's New Literature from Europe festival -- Crossing Borders: Europe Through the Lens of Time -- is on 5 and 6 December. As always, a nice little line-up (though the only title...
View ArticleLydia Davis reading Dag Solstad
'Tis, sadly, already newspaper/magazine literary-silly-season -- meaning, astonishingly, things get even sillier than usual, with periodicals filling their pages (prematurely) with their 'best...
View ArticleCundill Prize in Historical Literature
Just three weeks ago I noted that The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and A Forgotten Genocide, by Gary Bass, had picked up the Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award, and now it has picked...
View ArticleMabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
Yes, "Major New Prize for African Literature Announced", the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, and that's certainly very welcome. Apparently: The prize recognizes...
View ArticleTristana review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Margaret Jull Costa's new translation of Benito Pérez Galdós' classic, Tristana -- yes, the basis for the 1970 Luis Buñuel film...
View ArticleMaskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
I noted yesterday that it was great to see the announcement of a new prize, the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature for writing in Kiswahili; among prizes already honoring...
View ArticleNobel's library
The official Nobel Prize site continues to impress with the wealth of information available on it. Okay, I don't really need to know the contents of each and every of the Menus at the Nobel...
View ArticleNagasaki review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Éric Faye's Nagasaki, the 2010 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winner out from Gallic Books (in the UK; coming to the...
View ArticleStrand bookstore profile
In this week's issue of New York Christopher Bonanos profiles New York's enormous ('18 Miles of Books') Strand bookstore, in The Strand's Stand: How It Keeps Going in the Age of Amazon....
View ArticleBookselling in ... Taiwan
At CNN Johan Nylander reports on Nightclubs for literature ? Why book selling is booming in Taiwan, looking at the success of the Eslite book chain -- as, for example: The Eslite store in...
View ArticleGarcía Márquez archive to Harry Ransom Center
They've announced that Nobel Prize-Winning Author Gabriel García Márquez's Archive Acquired by The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center. How much they paid is, alas, not...
View ArticleIMPAC award longlist
The bizarre literary prize that is the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award has announced its longlist -- 142 books, a (sort of) impressive 49 in translation, originally written in 16...
View ArticleCervantes Prize to Juan Goytisolo
The Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes is the biggest Spanish-language author prize, and they've finally gotten around to giving it to the greatest -- and by far the...
View ArticleI hadn't understood review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Diego De Silva's I hadn't understood. The second in De Silva's series is about to come out -- My Mother-in-Law Drinks; see...
View ArticleBookselling in ... the US
In The Los Angeles Times Frank Shyong describes how To Survive in the U.S., Chinese Bookstores Evolve Way Beyond Books. Yes: Internet competition has forced bookstores across the nation...
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