Norman Manea Q & A
At Bomb Morten Høi Jensen has a Q & A with Norman Manea, whose early work, Captives, is finally available in English; see the New Directions publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com....
View ArticleMarch issue of Words without Borders
The March issue of Words without Borders is now up, featuring: 'On Memory: New Japanese Writing', as well as some pieces on 'Mexico Interrupted'.
View ArticleThe Helios Disaster review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Linda Boström Knausgård's The Helios Disaster. This will presumably get a reasonable amount of attention because of who...
View ArticleWriting in ... Burma
In the Myanmar Times Chit Su reports on the recent ninth annual Tun Foundation Literary Awards, in Literary awards seek to keep Myanmar writing. Alas, no detailed list of the winning...
View ArticleThe Discreet Hero review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the latest novel by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to be translated into English (by Edith Grossman), The Discreet Hero.
View ArticleBook piracy in ... Zimbabwe
In The Herald Beaven Tapureta reports on a Raw deal for academic, non-fiction authors in Zimbabwe, as: The fight against book piracy in Zimbabwe has become a requiem which writers and...
View ArticleNew(ish) issue of list
The website for the 'Books from Korea' publication list, from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, recently underwent a redesign, and they still seem to be figuring things out -- that...
View ArticleThe Room review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jonas Karlsson's small workplace novel, The Room.
View ArticleL.A. Times Book Prize finalists
They've announced the finalists for the 35th annual L.A. Times Book Prizes. Some interesting works -- and a lot of categories. I have some of these, but none are under review at the...
View ArticleBookselling in ... Russia
At Russia Beyond the Headlines they offer an English version of Kira Latukhina and Pavel Basinsky's Rossiyskaya Gazeta article, finding that The Russian book industry is at a crossroads....
View ArticleVietnamese literature abroad
As I've often noted, the South-East Asian languages are among the worst-represented in translation (especially into English). In Viet Nam they apparently have been holding an international...
View ArticleAfrican literature at American universities
A couple of weeks ago Yale professor Wai Chee Dimock wrote about A Literary Scramble for Africa, occasioned by the annual MLA-centered hiring-ritual. Dimock reported that: To our...
View ArticleOrhan Pamuk Q & A
Orhan Pamuk (The Museum of Innocence, etc.) was at the Cairo Literary Festival a couple of weeks ago, and in Al-Ahram Weekly they have a Q & A Mona Anis and Youssef Rakha conducted with him...
View ArticleKnausgaard Q & A
With the fourth volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle-series just out in the UK (I'll get to it -- meanwhile, pre-order your copy at Amazon.com, or get your copy at Amazon.co.uk) the...
View ArticleTop Chinese fiction since 1900 ?
Via Paper Republic I'm pointed to Time Out (Beijing)'s The best Chinese fiction books of the last century, where: "24 Chinese literature experts, novelists, literary agents, publishers,...
View ArticleSong of Lawino and Song of Ocol review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Okot p'Bitek's Acoli classic(s), Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol.
View ArticleSolaris, the opera
Dai Fujikura's opera Solaris, based on the Stanisław Lem novel, premiered on Thursday in a production at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; see, for example, Marie-Pierre Ferey's AFP article,...
View ArticleThe Crimson Thread of Abandon review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a collection of stories by Terayama Shūji, The Crimson Thread of Abandon, recently published by Merwin Asia.
View ArticleDispelling Yaşar Kemal/Nobel rumors
The Swedish Academy's Nobel Prize-point man (for a few more weeks -- Sara Danius is taking over shortly) Peter Englund doesn't often comment about Nobel-related gossip but apparently he's...
View ArticleRed Bull giving publishing wings ?
'Energy'-drinks company Red Bull® is already active in a wide variety of entertainment-fields -- mainly of the (more or less) athletic sort, but in 2013 they bought publishing house ecowin and...
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