Man Booker bump/nudge
In The Bookseller Kiera O'Brien and Sarah Shaffi look at the sales numbers for the Man Booker longlisted titles -- and find Tyler is top-selling Man Booker longlisted title. While it...
View ArticleWriting in ... (South) Korea
In The Korea Times Kwon Mee-yoo suggests the fallout from the plagiarism scandal surrounding Please Look After Mom-author Shin Kyung-sook -- among others -- is still reverberating, in Scandals...
View ArticleGrimm-world
It sounds rather ... grimmer than, say, Disney World®, but in Kassel -- yes, documenta central, as immortalized in Enrique Vila-Matas The Illogic of Kassel -- is now home to a new theme park,...
View ArticleWilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis shortlist
The Germans, as I've often noted, favor author- over book-prizes, and while the Man Booker-imitation German Book Prize wasn't the first to try to change the focus to an annual work, rather than...
View ArticleMbokodo Awards
The Mbokodo Awards honor South African women in the arts in a variety of categories, and they've now announced the 2015 winners -- not at the official site, last I checked, but, for example, at...
View ArticleWriting in ... Kenya
In the Daily Nation Tom Odhiambo argues that there's way too much moaning about the state of literature in Kenya, and much of it is unfounded, in Stop the criticism and do some actual literary...
View ArticleTonio review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Adri van der Heijden's Tonio: A Requiem Memoir, just out in the UK and Australia (but not, sigh, in the US) from Scribe....
View ArticleMetro-lit in India
The Sahitya Akademi is the Indian National Academy of Letters, and as Manoj Sharma reports in the Hindustan Times, Metro station takes literary turn with Sahitya Akademi stores -- so that now:...
View ArticleChateaubriand, beyond the tomb
François-René de Chateaubriand is best-known for his Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb (get your copy of the Penguin Classics edition at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk), and in France there's a fun...
View ArticleComrade Sahib review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Rohit Handa's 1977 novel, Comrade Sahib. I picked this up because ... well, when you stumble across a book like this,...
View ArticleQ & A: Shahriar Mandanipour
At Little Village James C. Yu has an Interview: Iranian novelist-in-exile Shahriar Mandanipour on love, censorship and wearing religiosity like a hijab. Mandanipour is the author of...
View ArticleQ & A: Natasha Wimmer
At the Asymptote blog Katrine Øgaard Jensen's Translator's Profile Q & A this week is with Natasha Wimmer -- translator of, among much else, Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and 2666....
View ArticleFall Quarterly Conversation
The Fall 2015 issue of the Quarterly Conversation is now up, with a good amount of interesting material (and reviews of quite a few books also under review at the complete review).
View ArticleBoxes review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pascal Garnier's Boxes, from Gallic Books. This is the seventh Garnier title under review at the complete review -- the...
View ArticlePrix Médicis longlists
Another of the major French literary prizes has come out with its longlists, the prix Médicis -- with domestic and foreign fiction categories, which is always interesting to see (what...
View ArticleShortlists: Daphne Awards
At Bookslut they've announced the shortlists for the Daphne Awards, "for the best book of 50 years ago, but really 51 years ago, because we are playing by National Book Award rules, and so that...
View ArticleShortlist: Lucien Stryk Award
The American Literary Translators Association has announced the shortlist for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Poetry-heavy, I haven't seen any of these, but it looks like a...
View ArticleShortlist: Man Booker
They've announced the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. None of the titles are under review at the complete review. The winner will be announced on 13 October.
View ArticleWole Soyinka profile
At Deutsche Welle Sabine Peschel profiles Wole Soyinka -- in a piece with an attention-grabbing headline: 'Before you talk literature you better oil your gun'. A sad sign of the times --...
View ArticleShortlist: SEA Write Award
The SEA Write Award is a bit confusing -- down to the name ('South East Asian Writers Award' the official site titles itself, but tefers to it as the 'S.E.A. Write Award' everywhere else ...),...
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