Man Booker International Prize
They've announced that the 2015 Man Booker International Prize -- a biennial £60,000 prize, awarded to: "a living author for a body of work published either originally in English or available...
View ArticlePrix Littérature-monde
Two French international-book prizes will be handed out on Sunday at the Étonnants Voyageurs festival, the (French-language) prix Littérature-monde, which goes to Simone Schwartz-Bart's...
View ArticleTTIP bookselling concerns
At DeutscheWelle Kate Müser reports that: 'Germany's creatives are concerned that TTIP will knock culture off its pedestal of protection', in Chlorine concerts and butter books? TTIP tests...
View ArticleThe Meursault Investigation review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation, due out soon from Other Press (in the US) and Oneworld Publications (UK). This...
View Article(Another) Mafhouz literary prize ?
AUC Press have been awarding a Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature since 1996, and it has a good track record (with the winning titles translated into English). Now, apparently, as Ahram...
View ArticleTranslation pitching
As part of European Literature Night, English PEN are having ELN VII: The Translation Pitch, and at PEN Atlas Rajendra Chitnis and Rosalind Harvey 'discuss their experiences of shortlisting for...
View ArticleRansmayr revival ?
In the 1990s three works by Christoph Ransmayr came out in English -- all in John E. Woods' translation, which already says something -- but Grove Press notoriously overpaid for The Last World...
View ArticleCoe on Kundera
With Milan Kundera's most recent work of fiction, The Festival of Insignificance, due out in English shortly -- see the Faber publicity page, or pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or...
View ArticleKrasznahorkai's translators
Krasznahorkai László was awarded the Man Booker International Prize earlier this week, and in The Guardian he writes about My hero: George Szirtes and my other translators, a nice little...
View ArticlePalFest 2015
PalFest -- the Palestine Festival of Literature -- has started, and runs through the 28th.
View ArticleCensorship in translation in ... China
PEN American Center has issued a report on 'Foreign Authors and the Challenge of Chinese Censorship': Censorship and Conscience (warning ! dreaded pdf format !). An interesting overview,...
View ArticleNew The Manila Review
Issue 6 of The Manila Review is now (partially ?) available at its (sigh) newly redsigned site.
View ArticleHeimrad-Bäcker-Preis
The Heimrad-Bäcker-Preis is pretty small-time -- though actually the €8,000 in prize-money isn't bad (right there at Pulitzer/National Book Award level) -- apparently without its own website...
View ArticleRead Russia Prize shortlist
They've announced the Read Russia Prize shortlist, 'Celebrating the best translations of Russian literature' (into English). The two new Anna Karenina translations (by Rosamund Bartlett...
View ArticleFinnish revivals
The modern Finnish classics suddenly appear to be hot: Dedalus are working on a new translation of Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers, and Penguin Classics have just brought out (in the UK) a new...
View ArticleGeorge MacDonald Fraser debut
George MacDonald Fraser had grand success with his Flashman-novels, and others, like his Quartered Safe Out Here, also continue to enjoy great popularity (the latter is, somewhat bafflingly,...
View ArticleBook of Numbers review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers -- one of the bigger summer books, with Cohen, after publishing with Twisted Spoon, Dalkey Archive...
View ArticleQ &A: Jenny Erpenbeck
Also in the Irish Times Martin Doyle has a Q & A with Jenny Erpenbeck, whose The End of Days (see the publicity pages at New Directions and Portobello, or get your copy at Amazon.com or...
View ArticleQ &A: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
In the Irish Times Martin Doyle has a Q & A with Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, whose By Night the Mountain Burns (see the And Other Stories publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or...
View ArticleLeena Krohn's aesthetics
Leena Krohn -- author of, for example, Datura (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) -- discusses her aesthetics at Books from Finland, in When the viewer vanishes. She suggests:...
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