Georg-Büchner-Preis to Rainald Goetz
The German Academy for Language and Literature has announced that Rainald Goetz will receive this year's Georg-Büchner-Preis (he'll get to pick it and the €50,000 prize-money up on 31 October);...
View ArticleA Perfect Crime review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Chinese author A Yi's A Perfect Crime, just out in English.
View ArticlePetros Markaris Q & A
At DeutscheWelle Klaudia Prevezanos has a Q & A with Zone Defence-author Petros Markaris, mainly about the current situation with Greece and the EU, 'What Tsipras sees as strength will be...
View ArticleEuropese Literatuurprijs
Susan Bernofsky's translation of Jenny Erpenbeck's The End of Days has picked up several translated-book prizes -- the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (the last one ever !), the...
View ArticleECI Literatuurprijs longlist
The AKO Literatuurprijs used to be one of the foremost Dutch literary prizes; now it is the ECI Literatuurprijs -- and, still paying out €50,000 and otherwise largely unchanged, should still be...
View Article30 years of Dedalus translations
At the Dedalus News & Blog publisher Eric Lane offers A Survey of Thirty Years of New Dedalus Translations -- many of which, I'm pleased to say, are under review at the complete review,...
View ArticleBooks to look forward to
I mentioned The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2015 Book Preview a couple of days ago, and that's all well and good and semi-useful, if you want to know about the 'big'...
View ArticleLiterary impotence ?
In the Irish Times Ian Maleney has a Q & A with Michel Faber -- and the author laments: For a long time now, especially since the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, I've despised literature for its...
View ArticleSubmission review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Michel Houellebecq's Submission. On the one hand I am way early with this -- the William Heinemann/UK edition is only due...
View ArticleAuthor summer reads recommendations
In The Guardian they offer a Best holiday reads 2015 guide, where "leading authors recommend favourites and reveal what books they'll be packing for the summer holidays". Always fun to...
View ArticleSmile as they Bow, uncensored
In The Myanmar Times Chit Su reports that Classic novel to be published uncensored (in Burma), as Nu Nu Yi's Smile as they Bow will finally appear uncut, two decades after its first...
View ArticlePrix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne
A couple of weeks ago I wondered whether we might be looking at a Christoph Ransmayr revival, with Atlas of an Anxious Man set to come out at the end of this year from (who else ?) Seagull...
View Article'Israeli' literature
Last month I mentioned the debate in Israel about what constitutes 'Israeli' literature, as a leading national Hebrew literary prize, the Sapir Prize, changed its rules to limit eligible...
View Article(Lack of) copyright in Iran
I've noted this phenomenon a couple of times here, and now at the Asymptote blog Poupeh Missaghi writes about how Iran's very free copyright regime -- there's very little intellectual property...
View ArticleGerhard Zwerenz (1925-2015)
Prolific German author (and sometime parliamentarian, post-unification) Gerhard Zwerenz has passed away; no English-language reports yet, as far as I've seen, but see, for example, Arno...
View ArticleChenjerai Hove (1956-2015)
Zimbabwean author Chenjerai Hove has passed away (in Norway, having long lived in exile); see, for example, the BBC report, as well as Lovemore Ranga Mataire's report, Literary fraternity...
View ArticleAfrica Writes report
The Royal African Society's annual literature festival, Africa Writes was held 3 to 5 July, and at openDemocracy Ché Ramsden has a lengthy report on it, In celebration of African literature:...
View ArticleBTBA 2016 countdown begins !
The starting gun for the Best Translated Book Awards 2016 (for best previously untranslated work of fiction and of poetry published/distributed in the US in 2015) has now pretty much officially...
View ArticleUrgency and Patience review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's slim collection of non-fiction, Urgency and Patience, just out from Dalkey Archive Press.
View ArticleNew Asymptote
The July issue of Asymptote is now available online, with -- as always -- a very impressive and broad selection of international literature content.
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