Newspaper review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Edouard Levé's Newspaper, the fourth Levé title from Dalkey Archive Press. Not quite Kenneth Goldsmith's The Weather, but...
View ArticleTranslation from ... Indonesian
Indonesia is the Frankfurt Book Fair 'guest of honour;' this year, and in The Jakarta Post they report that Indonesian literati demand a translation center [via] -- maybe a bit late in the day,...
View ArticleIsrael Prize in literature
One prize for which there won't be a long- or short-list, or a winner this year is the Israel Prize in literature. A month ago I mentioned how Israeli PM -- and then-Education Minister...
View ArticleWellcome Book Prize shortlist
The six-title-strong shortlist for the Wellcome Book Prize -- open to both fiction and non, as long as it has: "a central theme that engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness" --...
View ArticleOrange Prize longlist
The twenty-title-strong longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction (now apparently re-named for some alcoholic-beverage sponsor), for the best UK-published novel written by a woman in English,...
View ArticleBest book year ?
At BBC Culture Jane Ciabattari wonders what was: The greatest year for books ever ? -- and suggests it was ... 1925. She notes: The year 1925 was a golden moment in literary history....
View ArticleDe Inktaap 2015
The Dutch literary prize decided by 15-18 year-old students, De Inktaap (see also the EU Read explanation) has announced the 2015 winner: La Superba, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer -- -which Deep...
View ArticleOne of Us review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad, One of Us.
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Four of the titles are under review at the complete review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of...
View ArticleAll Days are Night review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Peter Stamm's All Days are Night.
View ArticleHans Mayer on Arno Schmidt
Fifty-one years ago today the great Hans Mayer -- about as influential (and well/widely-read) a non-fiction writer on me as George Steiner -- wrote in Die Zeit on Die Bücherwelt und Arno...
View ArticlePreis(e) der Leipziger Buchmesse
The German Book Prize, awarded at the (fall) Frankfurt Book Fair is the biggest German book award, but the Preis(e) der Leipziger Buchmesse, awarded at the (spring) Leipzig Book Fair -- in...
View ArticleHolbergprisen to Marina Warner
They've announced that the Holberg Prize -- named after Niels Klim-author Ludvig Holberg, and: "awarded annually to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research within the arts...
View ArticleNational Book Critics Circle winners
They've announced the winners of the (American) National Book Critics Circle awards (for the 'publishing year 2014'). (I'm an NBCC member (I just sent in my dues-check yesterday !) but...
View ArticleAbbas Khider Q & A
At Qantara.de Abderrahmane Ammar has a Q & A with Iraqi author Abbas Khider (The Village Indian, etc.), "German is my new language"
View ArticlePublishing Indonesia
With Indonesia as guest of honour at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair there's been a much greater effort to get works translated , and it's good to see sites like Publishing Indonesia up,...
View ArticleCărtărescu prize speech
Mircea Cărtărescu (Nostalgia, etc.) picked up the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding a couple of days ago, and in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung they print (in German) his acceptance...
View ArticlePost-Nobel sales success
In Publishers Weekly Judith Rosen reports that Modiano's Nobel Win is a Boon to David R. Godine, as Godine has: "shipped 30,000 copies of the three Modiano novels on its list" -- two-thirds of...
View ArticleZorba the Greek review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Peter Bien's new translation of Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek -- noteworthy because it's the first English translation from...
View ArticleEtisalat Prize for Literature
They've announced the winner of the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature -- a prize for a best first book by an African author writing in English -- and it went to Penumbra, by Songeziwe...
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