Icelandic Booksellers' Prize 2014
They actually announced the winners of the Icelandic Booksellers' Prize over a month ago but I missed that -- but they just handed out the prizes a few days ago -- see, for example, the Iceland...
View ArticleLiterary prizes in ... India
In The Hindu Jaya Bhattacharji Rose considers whether: 'Indian literary prizes set literary standards', in The prize is right ? Neat to hear, at least, that: An award for a translated...
View ArticleSherazade review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Leïla Sebbar's Sherazade, a 1991 translation (originally published by Quartet) recently reissued by Interlink.
View ArticleSunday Times EFG Short Story Award longlist
They've announced the longlist for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Nineteen stories, by some fairly well-known authors, but nothing I'd come across previously. I had some hopes...
View ArticleFebruary issue of Words without Borders
The February issue of Words without Borders is now available online, featuring: 'International Graphic Novels: Volume IX', as well as some 'New Slovak Women's Writing'.
View ArticleSanshirō review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Natsume Sōseki's classic, Sanshirō, in Jay Rubin's Penguin Classics (re)translation. Mizumura Minae discusses this in her...
View Article'Typographical Translation Award'
Typographical Era offer a Typographical Translation Award (for: "the best translation of 2014", limited to fiction), and it's now down to the final eight -- and you get to vote for the winner....
View ArticleNew/old Harper Lee novel
This is apparently big literary news -- well, with a planned first printing of two million: undeniably -- so I figure I have to mention it: To Kill a Mockingbird-author Harper Lee's attorney...
View ArticleOttaway nominations
Words without Borders awards a 'James H. Ottaway, Jr. Award for the Promotion of International Literature' -- "selected on the basis of his or her efforts to build cultural understanding by...
View ArticleBest Hungarian fiction, 2014
At hlo they have a top five of Hungarian Best books of 2014 I. -- some familiar names, and some interesting sounding-titles, and the Péterfy is definitely something that should make it into...
View ArticleImperium review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht, Imperium, forthcoming in July from Farrar, Straus and Giroux This stirred...
View ArticleSwiss Literary Prizes
They've awarded this year's Swiss Literary Prizes. Open to Swiss authors writing in any of the official Swiss languages or dialects, the winners get tidy CHF 25,000 apiece, which they'll...
View ArticlePolitics and poetry
As Robert Coalson notes at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Lavrov The Poet: Russian Foreign Minister Showcases His Literary Side, as three of his poems have been published in Русский пионер....
View ArticleAmit Chaudhuri Q & A
At Tweed's Pooja Pande has a Q & A with Amit Chaudhuri -- mainly about his Odysseus Abroad (available in India for a while already -- see the Penguin India publicity page or get your copy...
View ArticleInternational book awards
In Prize and Prejudice, at Foreign Policy, Diane Mehta wonders: 'Do international book awards dilute world literature ?' (via). The piece takes in a lot of the recent debates -- though...
View ArticleHeinrich-Mann-Preis
The Heinrich-Mann_Preis is a German author prize, with a focus not on fiction but on 'Essayistik' -- a not-quite-non-fiction prize ('Essayistik' is part of the broader 'Sachbuch' category, but...
View ArticlePreis der Leipziger Buchmesse finalists
There are two big German book prizes: the German Book Prize, awarded to a novel every fall at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and, every spring, the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair, which is actually...
View Articlelithub.com
In the Wall Street Journal Jennifer Maloney previews a new site, suggesting Literary Hub Is a New Home for Book Lovers, which: 'aims to carve out a central online space for books'. This...
View ArticleThe Legs of Izolda Morgan review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Selected Writings -- in both Polish and Russian -- by Bruno Jasieński, The Legs of Izolda Morgan, in a lovely edition from...
View ArticleLiterature in ... Azerbaijan
In Daily Sabah Kaya Genç reports that Filled with surprises, Baku's literary scene awaits discovery -- with a focus on a visit to the Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature. The museum...
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