Wieseltier on disruption
In the upcoming issue of The New York Times Book Review -- apparently the cover-review -- former The New Republic-literary editor Leon Wieseltier writes, very much, from Among the Disrupted....
View ArticlePremio Nadal de Novela
Unlike some of the Spanish book prizes, the Premio Nadal de Novela doesn't offer an insane amount of prize money -- but, as for example noted in the announcement of this year's prize: Con sus...
View ArticleLudmila Ulitskaya Q & A
At Russia Beyond the Headlines Alexandra Guzeva has a Q & A with Ludmila Ulitskaya: Culture is above politics and public life. Her The Big Green Tent is certainly among the most...
View ArticleAdam Buenosayres review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Leopoldo Marechal's 1948 classic, Adam Buenosayres, finally available in English, from ... McGill-Queen's University Press....
View ArticleJanuary issue of The White Review
There are now quite a few online periodicals that provide a variety of superior coverage of international literature, Words without Borders, Asymptote, and Music & Literature among them....
View ArticleTadeusz Konwicki (1926-2015)
Yet another significant eastern European author has passed away, Tadeusz Konwicki; see, for example, the Radio Poland report. Trusty Dalkey Archive Press reissued some of his major work,...
View ArticleCovering the Russian classics
At Russia Beyond the Headlines Tatyana Trofimova reports on how Classic literature gets a facelift in Russian bookstores, as 'publishers are experimenting with new cover designs in the hope of...
View ArticleFriedrich Ulfers Prize
The Festival Neue Literatur -- 'New Writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S.' -- is apparently due to run 19 through 22 February (so you'd kind of think they'd have some...
View ArticleTranslation in ... India
In the Times of India they report on Translations: A shortcut into different worlds profiling Mini Krishnan, publishing consultant and editor, translations, Oxford University Press. (OUP...
View ArticleBed of Nails review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Antonin Varenne's Bed of Nails, just came out in the US (two years after the UK edition ...).
View ArticleRobert Stone (1937-2015)
American author Robert Stone has passed away; see, for example, the notice at The Los Angeles Times (with much more to surely follow soon). See also his Q & A at The Paris Review,...
View ArticleNobel Prize nominations, 1964
I mentioned the opening of the 1964 Nobel Prize archives (fifty years is how long they wait before making them accessible) last week, with some of the basics revealed in the first...
View ArticleBred to Kill review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Franck Thilliez's Bred to Kill, just out in English. This thriller was translated by Mark Polizzotti -- and I'm very...
View ArticleGhana Writers Awards
I've mentioned the Ghana Writers Awards previously -- looking forward to it, but also finding it to be ... in the works, rather than in practice. A "perennial awards scheme", indeed ........
View ArticleNBCC 20% vote
The American National Book Critics Circle (of which I am a member) will announce the finalists for this year's NBCC Awards on 20 January, and while the board selects the finalists, all NBCC...
View ArticlePrize-winners and the Best Translated Book Award
It's my turn this week to post at Three Percent on the ongoing Best Translated Book Award-deliberations (coming down to the wire -- the longlist announcement will be 2 March), and I take a look...
View ArticleUpdated Translation Databases
At Three Percent Chad Post has the exciting news that The Translation Databases Have Been Updated -- this ever-useful resource now more accurate and complete ! Nice increases in counted...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize rules modifications
No press release at the official site yet, but in The Bookseller Joshua Farrington reports that Man Booker Prize modifies longlist availability rules. Among the interesting/odd ones: The...
View ArticleInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist
They've announced the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist, 16 novels by novelists from nine countries, a record five of whom are women, selected from 180 entries from fifteen...
View ArticleAsymptote anniversary event
If you read the Literary Saloon then surely you're also a fan of online-publication Asymptote, with its most impressive international literature coverage. This Saturday, the 17th,...
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