Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for this year's Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize -- awarded for: "book-length literary translations into English from any living European language". As you...
View ArticleAgainst Nature review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tomas Espedal's Against Nature. It comes with a brief Natalia Ginzburg cameo, as well as an amusing...
View ArticleE-books in ... Iran
In The Guardian Saeed Kamali Dehghan reports that Digital age poses a new challenge to Iran's relentless book censors. "E-publishing in Iran is still in its infancy", one person notes,...
View ArticleSophie Kerr Prize
They've announced that Poet Alexander Vidiani Takes the Prize ! -- the US$62,900 (this year) Sophie Kerr Prize for literary promise, awarded to a student at Washington College. It's not...
View ArticlePersonal translations
The dearth of translations-into-English of literary works remains a huge issue; here's one unlikely/desperate example of trying to overcome that: Antti Tuuri is a popular and prolific Finnish...
View Article茅盾文学奖 contenders
They've announced the 252 (!) contenders for this year's Mao Dun Literature Prize, a (now-)quadrennial prize that honors three to five of the best novels (minimum of 130,000 characters) of the...
View ArticleA Gothic Soul review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic's 1900 novel, A Gothic Soul, now available in English, in a lovely edition from Twisted Spoon Press.
View ArticleDonald Rayfield on Peter Pišt'anek
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Slovak author Peter Pišt'anek passed away. Now at the TLS weblog Donald Rayfield -- responsible for bringing his work into English -- has a piece, Peter...
View ArticleTbilisi International Festival of Literature
The Tbilisi International Festival of Literature runs all this week; see the list of participants -- including Svetlana Alexievich and Philippe Besson -- as well as preview-coverage at...
View ArticleJeanette Schocken Preis
Today's German author-prize announcement -- and they really seem to announce one practically every other day, don't they ? -- is the biennial Jeanette Schocken Preis, the "Bremerhavener...
View ArticlePedigree review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's Pedigree: A Memoir, coming out in late August in the US, in Yale University Press' Margellos...
View ArticleDubravka Ugrešić Q & A
Issue six of Music & Literature is out, with some of the contents freely accessible online; see the impressive table of contents. The three authors championed in the issue are...
View ArticleAnthony C. Yu (1938-2015)
Via Paper Republic I learn of the passing of Anthony C. Yu, translator and scholar of religion and literature, 1938-2015. He is of course best known for his landmark translation of the...
View ArticleMiles Franklin shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award, one of Australia's top book prizes.
View ArticleThe Folio Prize
Prominent British literary prizes continue to have sponsorship issues: the latest to lose its sponsor is the The Folio Prize as, after a mere two years, as Sarah Shaffi reports in The...
View ArticleNeustadt International Prize for Literature jury
They've announced the jury for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Alison Anderson Porochista Khakpour Valeria Luiselli Amit Majmudar Valzhyna Mort Mukoma Wa Ngugi Jordan...
View ArticleDag Solstad profile
At the Literary Hub Ane Farsethås writes at length about why Norway's Greatest Living Writer is Actually Dag Solstad .... Complete with a Peter Handke-endorsement ! As long-time readers...
View ArticleDisclaimer review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Renée Knight's debut thriller, Disclaimer, just out in the US. Do other languages not have a word for that front...
View ArticleNSW Premier's Literary Awards
They've announced the 2015 (Australian) NSW Premier's Literary Awards, with the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction-winning The Bush by Don Watson also taking Book of the Year, while the...
View ArticleRSL Ondaatje Prize
They've announced that the 2015 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize -- a £10,000 prize for: "a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place" --...
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