Q & A: Yevgeny Yevtushenko
At Russia Beyond the Headlines they have an English version of Igor Virabov and Pavel Basinsky's Российская газета Q & A with Yevgeny Yevtushenko (original). Among the take-aways:...
View ArticleKorean fiction
In The Korea Times Nam Hyun-woo writes about Kim Jin-myung's (김진명) latest novel, 글자전쟁 ('Letter Wars'), which has apparently been very successful in South Korea. The premise has a...
View ArticleThe Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician. This came out from Zimbabwean publisher amaBooks last...
View ArticleSwedish romance ?
After the Nordic crime wave comes ... Swedish romance novels ? Francis Hoch suggests that terrifying prospect in Publishers Weekly, in Swedish Romance -- the Next Hot Trend ? as a novel by the...
View ArticleChetan Bhagat Q & A
At Scroll.in Mayank Jain has a Q & A with mega-bestselling (in India ...) Chetan Bhagat (One night @ the call centre, etc.), occasioned by the publication of his new book -- a non-fiction...
View ArticleSavage Seasons reviews
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Haitian author Kettly Mars' novel of 'Papa Doc' consolidating power in the 1960s, Savage Seasons, recently released in...
View ArticleShimmer Chinodya Q & A
In The Herald Elliot Ziwira has a lengthy Q & A with Zimbabwean Chairman of Fools-author Shimmer Chinodya. All over the place -- but also some good advice: Read, read, read ! Write,...
View ArticleIshiguro archive to Ransom Center
They've announced that Ransom Center to Acquire Archive of Kazuo Ishiguro, as the Harry Ransom Center has purchased Kazuo Ishiguro's archive (for: "just over $1m", The Guardian reports)....
View ArticleThe NYTBR slanders Mario Vargas Llosa ?
Oh, dear. So The New York Times Book Review had Book of Numbers-author Joshua Cohen review Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's new non-fiction title, Notes on the Death of Culture -- an...
View ArticleErdal Öz Edebiyat Ödülü
He won the Nobel Prize quite a few years ago, but only now does Orhan Pamuk win the Erdal Öz Edebiyat Ödülü; see, for example, the report in Today's Zaman The previous winners of this...
View ArticleLes Misérables in ... Urdu
In Dawn Rauf Parekh reports on A new, complete Urdu translation of Les Misérables -- apparently the first complete-length rendering, though an abridged one appeared almost a century ago....
View ArticleWriters from ... Indonesia
With Indonesia the guest of honour at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair there has been a decent amount of coverage -- and at Qantara.de Monika Griebeler now introduces Seven must-know authors...
View ArticleNew World Literature Today
The September/October issue of World Literature Today is now (partially) available online. Completely available: the World Literature in Review-section -- i.e. the reviews, with lots of...
View ArticleMan Booker International Prize judges
As I (tried to) explain last month, the one-time biennial author prize that was the Man Booker International Prize ate -- and transmuted into -- what used to be the annual book prize that was...
View ArticleTram 83 review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83, yet another impressive addition to the Deep Vellum catalogue. Tram 83 odds and ends:...
View ArticlePhilippine Literary Festival
The Philippine Literary Festival runs tomorrow through 30 August. They seem to be using the 'big' foreign names -- Matthew Quick and Meg Wolitzer -- as ... loss leaders ? but most of the...
View ArticleLisa Hayden Q & A
At Russia Beyond the Headlines they have a translation of Yulia Arseniy's Q & A with translator and Lizok's Bookshelf-blogger Lisa Hayden. I have both Addendum to a Photo Album (see...
View ArticlePosthumous Günter Grass
Günter Grass may be dead, but that's no reason why he shouldn't have more books coming out -- and, indeed, as DeutscheWelle reports, Günter Grass leaves a last farewell book (I'm not quite...
View Article'Novel Scarlett Johansson tried to ban'
I mentioned Scarlett Johansson's suit against French author Grégoire Delacourt (The List of My Desires (US title: My Wish List)) about his using her (sort of) as a character in a novel of his...
View ArticleChina Bookworm Literary Award
With judges including A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers-author Guo Xiaolu and translator (e.g. Running Through Beijing) and editor Eric Abrahamsen, the China Bookworm Literary...
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