(American) National Translation Award prose longlist
The American Literary Translators Association has announced the longlist for the 2015 National Translation Award in prose. It's like a 'best of the translation prizes'-longlist: among...
View ArticleBangkok Book Festival
The Bangkok Book Festival starts today, and runs through Sunday. See also Anchalee Kongrut's preview, The Reading Feast, in the Bangkok Post.
View ArticleTranslating Persian literature into ... Arabic
In Al Monitor they have a wide-ranging Q & A with Ghassan Hamdan, Iraqi writer brings Persian literature to Arab world. Interesting to hear about what he translates, and the...
View ArticleReviewing issues
In the Irish Times Martin Doyle considers Reviewing Irish books: the good, the bad and the ugly truth -- and asks a a variety of local reviewers and critic for their opinions on the matter....
View ArticleNigerians in Space review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Deji Bryce Olukotun's Nigerians in Space. It's taken me a while to get around to this; I've been curious/interested --...
View ArticleAkutagawa and Naoki Prizes
They've announced the winners of the (153rd) Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes, with 火花 by 又吉直樹 (Matayoshi Naoki) and スクラップ・アンド・ビルド by 羽田圭介 (Keisuke Haneda) sharing the Akutagawa and 流 by 東山彰良...
View ArticleModiano coverage
A flurry of Patrick Modiano-translations (and updated translations ...) are due out in the US/UK in the coming months, with Pedigree due out soon, and the three-pack of The Occupation Trilogy...
View ArticlePrix Littéraire de La Mamounia
They've announced (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) the five finalists for the prix Littéraire de La Mamounia, one of the leading hotel-sponsored literary prizes, a MAD 200,000 prize for...
View ArticleThe Novella Award shortlist
So there's something called The Novella Award -- "a writing competition that celebrates new fiction in the novella form" -- and they've now announced their shortlist, with the winner to be...
View ArticlePremio Dashiell Hammett
So they just handed out a bunch of literary prizes at the Semana Negra 2015, and the Premio Dashiell Hammett went to Yo fui Johnny Thunders by Carlos Zanón; see, for example, Carlos Zanón gana...
View ArticleMaj Sjöwall profile
In The Telegraph Jake Kerridge profiles Maj Sjöwall, in The couple who invented Nordic Noir (the other half being long-dead Per Wahlöö, with whom she co-authored the classic Martin Beck-series...
View ArticleMirages of the Mind review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi's 1990 novel Mirages of the Mind; Random House India brought this translation out last year, and now New...
View ArticleMirages of the Mind review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi's 1990 novel Mirages of the Mind; Random House India brought this translation out last year, and now New...
View ArticlePremio Strega
Rather shamefacedly I note the awarding of the Premio Strega ... a full two weeks after they announced the winner. (It's summer, news travels slowly ? But seriously, where's the...
View ArticleWriting in ... Cambodia
In The Phnom Penh Post Harriet Fitch Little profiles the Nou Hach Literary Journal, in Literary journal rewards talent in a still small field. Disappointingly: "Writing is kind of...
View ArticleReading in ... Bulgaria
At Radio Bulgaria Desislava Ivanova briefly writes Of Bulgarians and books. We are treated to not-quite-up-to-date 'statistics': In figures from the National Statistical Institute, in...
View ArticleE.L.Doctorow (1931-2015)
You probably don't need me to tell you, but, as widely reported, E.L.Doctorow has passed away; see, for example, Bruce Weber's obituary in The New York Times. None of his work is under...
View ArticleDexter is Dead review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the final volume in Jeff Lindsay's serial-killer series, the just published Dexter is Dead. Okay, not exactly my proudest...
View ArticleKranichsteiner Literaturpreis
This week's German author prize is ... the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, the €20,000 prize that's gone to Rainald Goetz (this year's just-announced (see my mention) Georg-Büchner-Preis...
View ArticlePrix du Roman Fnac longlist
With the French 'rentrée littéraire' about to be unleashed -- 589 titles published over the course of just a couple of weeks -- any guidance is helpful; the prix du Roman Fnac offers a...
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