Faces in the Crowd review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Valeria Luiselli's Faces in the Crowd. This was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award (see above); I've been...
View ArticleSunday Times Fiction Prize longlist
They've announced the twenty-five-title strong (South African) Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize longlist. Lots of familiar big names -- Zakes Mda, Zoe Wicomb, and Ingrid Winterbach...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award longlists
They've announced the Best Translated Book Award longlists -- for fiction (25 titles; I was one of the judges) and for poetry (17 titles). The fiction list is as follows: Adam...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Kurdistan
The Erbil International Book Fair runs through 12 April, and at Rudaw Campbell MacDiarmid reports that Kurdish books hot-sellers at Erbil book fair -- though the local situation has impacted...
View Article'Literary Hub'
New online periodical the Literary Hub started publishing yesterday. It is apparently meant to be: "an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily...
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist
Two days after the announcement of the US Best Translated Book Award longlists (see my mention) the shortlist for the UK Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has now been announced; see also Nick...
View ArticleOttaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature
Words without Borders has announced that Sara Bershtel, publisher of Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, will be the recipient of the 2015 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International...
View ArticleJoseph Brodsky museum
So they've apparently opened a Joseph Brodsky museum -- not this one, in St. Petersburg, but rather, as The Moscow Times reports, Brodsky Museum Opens in Far North Exile Spot. That spot...
View Article2015 Guggenheim fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the 173 Fellowships they awarded this year. Fiction prize-winners include Sacred Games-author Vikram Chandra and Rivka...
View ArticleGeorgi Gospodinov Q & A
At Bomb Jeffrey Zuckerman has a Q & A with Georgi Gospodinov -- author of Natural Novel, And Other Stories, and the about-to-be-released The Physics of Sorrow, certainly one this year's...
View ArticleDivine Punishment review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Sergio Ramírez's Divine Punishment. A 1988 novel, this was actually slated for publication from a major American publisher...
View ArticleChildren's literature in translation
Daniel Hahn just published the second edition of the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (see the Oxford University Press publicity page or get your copy at Amazon.co.uk, or pre-order it...
View ArticleNepali literary symposium
The Times of India previews an upcoming Nepali literary symposium, reporting that Literary meet to explore challenges, trends in Nepali literature. I hope there will be some reports from...
View ArticleTranslation in ... India
At dna Marisha Karwa reports on Literature's unsung heroes -- yes, that would be translators. She notes: But while translated literary titles have steadily been available in India,...
View ArticleTranslating science fiction into ... Chinese
An interesting piece by The Three-Body Problem-translator Ken Liu at io9 on how when: 'early science fiction novels were first translated into Chinese, the translators took a lot of liberties...
View ArticleThe Red Notebook review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Antoine Laurain's The Red Notebook, just out in English, from Gallic Books. Written and published in France shortly before...
View ArticleLondon Book Fair
The London Book Fair, the big UK publishing trade fair (with much foreign interest and involvement), starts tomorrow, running through Thursday. The 'Market Focus Spotlight' is on Mexico...
View ArticleReading in ... Afghanistan
Via I'm pointed to Qayoom Suroush's piece at Afghanistan Analysts Network, Reading in Kabul: The state of Afghan libraries -- a fascinating/depressing overview.
View ArticleLiterature in translation statistics (UK and Ireland)
At Literature Across Frontiers they have posted Publishing translated literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland 1990-2012 statistical report (pdf; see also the summary press release)....
View ArticleEduardo Galeano (1940-2015)
Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano has passed away; see, for example obituaries in The New York Times and The Guardian. The Book of Embraces is a good, personal starting point; see the...
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