NBCC awards preview
The National Book Critics Circle Awards will be announced tomorrow -- but first you have the opportunity to see the National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists reading at 18:00 tonight at the...
View ArticleAlex Rider novels reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of the first two novels in Anthony Horowitz's teen-spy Alex Rider series: Stormbreaker Point Blanc (published in the US as Point...
View ArticleNever the Twain review
I've mentioned the Indonesian-literature promoting Lontar Foundation repeatedly here over the years, and was especially excited to hear about their new Modern Library of Indonesia-series --...
View ArticleThe History of Nordic Women's Literature site
The History of Nordic Women's Literature is now available online, in three languages -- an online version of the monumental Nordisk Kvindelitteraturhistorie, originally published in Danish in...
View ArticleOrange Prize longlist
Yes, Orange Prize for Fiction announces 2012 Longlist -- twenty titles in the running for: "the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman". I'm glad to see Foreign...
View ArticleGoce Smilevski's Freud's Sister
I enjoyed and was impressed by Goce Smilevski's Conversation with Spinoza, and am very pleased to see that his Сестрата на Зигмунд Фројд is due out from Penguin this fall in the US and UK (in...
View ArticleNational Book Critics Circle Awards
The winners of the (American) National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced yesterday. None of the winning titles are under review at the complete review; among the winners are...
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist
Less than ten days after the longlist for the (US) Best Translated Book Award was announced, now the (UK) Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 longlist announced -- and while eligibility...
View ArticleYoussef Ziedan's Azazeel
Youssef Ziedan's 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning novel, Azazeel, is apparently due out in the UK from Atlantic Books soon (pre-order your copy at Amazon.co.uk; there's no...
View ArticleSimin Daneshvar (1921-2012)
Well-known Iranian author, Simin Daneshvar, has passed away; see, for example, Author Simin Daneshvar passes away at 90 in the Tehran Times. Her most famous and widely translated book is...
View ArticleQ and A: Jo Nesbø
In The Observer Andrew Anthony has a Q & A with Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'. Among his responses: Your novel Headhunters, which doesn't feature Harry Hole, has been turned into a...
View ArticleQ and A: Ephrem Seyoum
In The Reporter Tibebeselassie Tigabu has a Q & A with Ethiopian poet Ephrem Seyoum, discussing When poetry meets the digital age. In this case 'digital' mainly refers to sound...
View ArticleEdwin Thumboo profile
At asia one Manote Tripathi profiles Singaporean poet Edwin Thumboo, in Words with the poet.
View ArticleCzech Literature Guide
At Radio Praha David Vaughan reports A new "Czech Literature Guide" gives useful insights into the world of Czech books, and has a Q & A with Viktor Debnár and Jaroslav Balvín, who also run...
View ArticleTurkish literature
In Sunday's Zaman Latifa Akay reports that 'International readers need to discover Turkish literature,' say publishers -- with a look at various current issues surrounding Turkish literature,...
View ArticleIvan Klíma Q and A
I missed this when it came out a couple of weeks back, but in The Prague Post Stephan Delbos has an Interview: Ivan Klíma. Fairly informative -- though it's disappointing to hear: TPP:...
View ArticleReading in ... Pakistan
Dawn has an editorial expressing concern about A literary dilemma in Pakistan, as: Seldom does a book appear today in Urdu, arguably the most widely read language in Pakistan, with a count...
View ArticleReading in ... Bulgaria
At Radio Bulgaria Veneta Pavlova wonders What books do Bulgarians buy ?
View ArticleOndjaki on: 'History and War in Angolan Literature'
A reminder that tomorrow, 12 March, at 17:30, author Ondjaki will deliver a lecture on History and War in Angolan Literature at Stanford University. Sounds interesting. See also reviews...
View ArticleMathematics: review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jacques Roubaud's Mathematics: -- the third ... installment ? variation ? branch ? in/of his 'The Great Fire of London' project,...
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