Nervous Conditions review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tsitsi Dangarembga's 1988 novel, Nervous Conditions -- a novel that lives up to its modern-African-classic reputation.
View ArticleNew Swedish Book Review
The 2015:1 Issue of the Swedish Book Review is now up, with all the book reviews and some of the articles (including a report on The Tove Jansson Centennial Conference: Multiple Aesthetics,...
View ArticleCullman Fellows
They've announced the 2015-2016 Fellows at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers -- a nine-month gig that includes "a stipend of up to...
View ArticleThe Steel Spring review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Per Wahlöö's The Steel Spring, the second of his two Inspector Jensen novels.
View ArticleEmirates Novel Award
At Gulf News they report that Winners of Emirates Novel Award honoured (complete with a great lots-of-hands-on-the-prize photograph). Any local recognition seems like a positive, and...
View ArticleBorgesian Library of Babel
It was only a matter of computing power and time before someone would try to (re)create what Jorge Luis Borges imagined in his story, 'The Library of Babel' (read it in his Collected Fictions...
View ArticleThe Book of Beginnings review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of François Jullien's The Book of Beginnings, a non-fiction work in Yale University Press' always worthwhile Margellos World...
View Article(Over)publishing in ... Iceland
At Grapevine Elliott Brandsma wonder whether in famously book-friendly Iceland there might be Too Many Books: Do Icelandic Publishers Need To Chill Out ? When there was: "one year when...
View ArticleGoncourt du premier roman
They've announced the winner of this year's Goncourt du premier roman -- the 'first novel'-Goncourt -- and it's yet another prize for The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud's variation on...
View ArticleNew World Literature Today
The new issue of World Literature Today is (partially) available online, with a focus on 'New Hebrew Writing'. Most importantly: the World Literature in Review review-section is fully...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award - fiction finalists
They've announced the fiction-finalists for the Best Translated Book Award (for which I am a judge), and they are: The Author and Me, by Éric Chevillard, tr. Jordan Stump Faces in the Crowd, by...
View ArticleThe Making of Zombie Wars review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Aleksandar Hemon's just-released new novel, The Making of Zombie Wars. I've been hoping to cover more English-language/US...
View Article'Rubbish Chinese fiction' in Viet Nam
Via I'm pointed to this article from a couple of weeks ago at Tuoi Tre News, Oversentimental, sex fiction of Chinese origin endemic in Vietnam, which is as bizarrely amusing a story as you'd...
View ArticleLiterary funding in ... New Zealand
Literary times are tough in New Zealand, it seems. As Belinda Feek reports in The New Zealand Herald: New Zealand Book Month has been postponed indefinitely as the trust that governs it failed...
View ArticleSergio Ramírez event
The English translation of Sergio Ramírez's 1988 novel, Divine Punishment, was launched yesterday at a PEN World Voices/Americas Society event. As I've mentioned, the book actually got a...
View ArticleInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction
They've announced that The Italian [الطلياني] by Shukri Mabkhout [شكرى المبخوت] wins 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This leading Arabic fiction prize comes with US$50,000...
View ArticlePEN World Voices panel
There are any number of worthwhile PEN World Voices events for you to still attend -- an impressive lot today, too -- and tomorrow I'll be on the panel Who We Talk About When We Talk About...
View ArticleLiterary prize requirements/limitations
At Africa is a Country Ishtiyaq Shukri explains Why I asked for my work to be withdrawn from the inaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards -- his main complaint being the bizarre...
View ArticleLiteraturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft
The Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft -- the literary prize of the 'Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries', as...
View ArticleProfessor of Poetry, Oxford
The great Geoffrey Hill has been Professor of Poetry at Oxford since 2010, and with his five-year-term ending soon, the hunt is on for his successor, with voting to be held from 22 May to 17...
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