Spring Quarterly Conversation
The Spring 2015 issue of the Quarterly Conversation is now available, so that's a lot of good content to keep you busy at the beginning of the week. Lots of good stuff covered --...
View ArticleSahitya Akademi awards
At Scroll.in Devapriya Roy suggests: 'The Sahitya Akademi awards are a handy way to discover fine literature from all the major Indian languages, and not just English', in Twenty-four Indian...
View ArticleNowhere to Be Found review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Bae Suah's Nowhere to Be Found -- forthcoming from AmazonCrossing, one of America's leading publishers-in-translation, who prove...
View ArticleFrench bestseller get-together
In L'Express they report on a gathering of bestselling-in-2014 French authors, Best-sellers 2014: menu "people" au Bristol -- complete with list of the thirty-two top-selling titles (by...
View ArticleThe Black Sheep review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Honoré de Balzac 1842 novel, The Black Sheep (La Rabouilleuse). Always fun to jump back into some Balzac.
View ArticlePEN Literary Awards longlists
They've announced the longlists for the (many) PEN Literary Awards (with the finalists to be announced 15 April, and the winners on 13 May). Among the prizes is the US$3,000 PEN...
View ArticleTranslation into ... French
Livres Hebdo/Electre have gathered the numbers on translations into French in 2014, and they total 11,859 -- 17.4 per cent of all publications. Alas, only summary findings are freely...
View ArticleTorture Garden review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Octave Mirbeau's notorious 1899 novel, Torture Garden. Dalkey Archive Press is bringing out his 21 Days of a Neurasthenic...
View ArticleGrace Ogot (1930-2015)
Kenyan author Grace Ogot has passed away; see, for example, the report in the Daily Nation. None of her work is under review at the complete review, but see, for example, the African...
View ArticleAriadne Press Q & A
At the Asymptote weblog Eva Richter has a Q & A with Karl Johns and Jorun Johns about their Ariadne Press -- a publisher dedicated to publishing Austrian literature in translation, some 260...
View ArticleLife of a Counterfeiter review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Inoue Yasushi's Life of a Counterfeiter, a collection of three stories (two translated into English for the first time), in...
View ArticleThe Prone Gunman, the film
Jean-Patrick Manchette's The Prone Gunman is, in its film-adaptation (and, sigh, movie-tie-in reprints) no longer prone, and The Gunman - the movie, starring Sean Penn, Idris Elba, and Javier...
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Donogoo-Tonka review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Cinematographic Tale by Jules Romains, Donogoo-Tonka or The Miracles of Science. I just recently picked up -- for four...
View ArticleMáirtín Ó Cadhain reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two works by Irish (and Irish-writing) author Máirtín Ó Cadhain: The Dirty Dust -- the first translation of his 1949 classic,...
View ArticlePrix Mac Orlan
At the Salon du livre they awarded this year's prix Mac Orlan to La langue des oiseaux by Claudie Hunzinger (see the Grasset publicity page); see, for example, the Livres Hebdo report...
View ArticlePublishing in ... South Korea
In The Korea Herald Ahn Sung-mi reports on Voicing diversity through books, noting that while the state of bookselling in South Korea seems to be worrisome, independent publishing is...
View ArticleThe last 100 reviews
Another hundred titles reviewed at the complete review, as we're up to (and now already beyond) 3500 -- so it's time again to break down the numbers. - Reviews 3401-3500 were covered...
View ArticleSupernova review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Dewi Lestari's Supernova: The Knight, the Princess and the Falling Star. With Indonesia the guest of honour at the...
View ArticleThe Folio Prize
They've announced the winner of the 2015 Folio Prize, the £40,000 alternative-Man Booker "open to all works of fiction written in English and published in the UK", and it's Family Life (by...
View ArticleRussian literature
Rather (over-)dramatically, Owen Matthews asks: Is Russian Literature Dead ? at Foreign Policy. The focus turns out to be more on the dismal sales-figures of -- and limited public...
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