Attachment review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Florence Noiville's Attachment., due out shortly from Seagull Books (in a nice-looking little volume, by the way).
View ArticleIsraeli book-price law
Last year Israel passed legislation placing limits on book-discounting (previously widespread, especially among the market-dominating retailers), and it would be interesting to learn about the...
View ArticleJewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
They've announced the (co-)winners of this year's Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize: Diary of the Fall (by Michel Laub) and Hanns and Rudolf (by Thomas Harding); see, for example, the report at...
View ArticlePulitzer Prizes
The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes -- which include several book categories -- have been announced. The Fiction prize went to All the Light We Cannot See (by Anthony Doerr; get your copy at...
View ArticleProffer on Brodsky
At her Book Haven weblog Cynthia Haven enthuses about Ardis-co-founder Ellendea Proffer Teasley's Joseph Brodsky-focused memoir, Бродский среди нас ('Brodsky Among Us'), in The book that's...
View ArticlePamuk's A Strangeness in my Mind
Orhan Pamuk's new novel will be published in the UK and US in October, in Ekin Oklap's translation, as A Strangeness in my Mind (pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk). (In Ekin...
View ArticleGerald Murnane Q & A
At 3:AM Tristan Foster has a Q & A, Eight questions for Gerald Murnane. See also, for example, my review of Murnane's Barley Patch.
View ArticleVilas Sarang (1942-2015)
Indian author Vilas Sarang has passed away; see, for example, Ramu Ramanathan on The Incomparable Silence of Vilas Sarang in the Mumbai Mirror and Anu Kumar's Vilas Sarang: the writer you...
View ArticleNew issue of list
The Spring 2015 issue of list: Books from Korea is now available online (though not very obviously so -- that site redesign still needs a lot of work ...). There's a special section on...
View ArticleRussian book prizes
Lizok's Bookshelf has the run-down of the latest Russian book prizes -- the Национальный бестселлер (catchily shortened to 'NatsBest') shortlist and the Большая книга ('Big Book', sigh)...
View ArticleBook-keeping/burning in ... North Korea
At DailyNK Choi Song Min reports on Furnaces Ablaze with Kim Literature -- book-burning not, as you might expect, to provide heat but rather: Some households in North Korea are reportedly...
View ArticleTales of the Metric System review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Imraan Coovadia's recent (and Sunday Times Fiction Prize longlisted) novel, Tales of the Metric System.
View ArticleИностраннаялитература - prize
The Russian Ясная Поляна-literary prizes now also have an 'international literature' category -- a best-translated-into-Russian award --, and they've announced the 33 longlisted titles....
View ArticleÖsterreichischer Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur
The Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (as the former Ministry of Culture is now apparently organized) announced their annual literary prizes yesterday, including the big...
View ArticleThe Author and Me review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Éric Chevillard's The Author and Me. This is one of the titles on the Best Translated Book Awards longlist -- and next you...
View ArticlePoetic extinction ?
Some depressing graphs and charts at The Washington Post's 'Wonkblog', where Christopher Ingraham reports that Poetry is going extinct, government data show [via] The statistics...
View ArticleSTEFG Short Story Award
They've announced that A Sheltered Woman, a story by Yiyun Li, has won the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. At £30,000, it pays out more than most US novel awards .....
View ArticleTranslations-from-the French shortlists
The French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation have announced the finalists for their Translation Prizes. Only one overlap with the Best Translated Book Award longlist --...
View ArticleMurder on the Thirty-First Floor review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Per Wahlöö's Murder on the Thirty-First Floor -- a recent re-translation of his 1964 novel (originally published in English as...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Kenya
Always fun to see the local complaints -- though admittedly it's also a bit depressing to see such problems and issues appear to be universal -- as in The Standard Abenea Ndago notes there are...
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