Shortlist: Deutscher Buchpreis
The German Book Prize -- the German imitation-Man-Booker -- has announced its six-title-strong shortlist. Jenny Erpenbeck is the most familiar name to English-speaking audiences. And I...
View ArticleAleksandar Hemon Q & A
At PEN Atlas Rebekah Murrell has a Q & A with The Making of Zombie Wars-author Aleksandar Hemon. Hemon discusses being a: "bilingual, bicultural writer" -- and he mentions: Most...
View ArticleLonglists: Prix Femina
They've announced the longlists for this year's Prix Femina, another big French literary prize -- and another one that also honors foreign fiction. Hey ! they (seem to ...) have an...
View ArticleLonglists: (American) NBA
They've now announced all the longlists for this year's (American) National Book Awards, the ten-title-strong fiction longlist (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) the last to be revealed....
View ArticleThe Occupation Trilogy review
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's first three novels, now published in one volume, as The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de...
View ArticleFreeman's profile
After an impressive stint as prolific book reviewer, John Freeman was editor of Granta for a while, and now he's back in the literary-periodical-game with his very own Freeman's. (No official...
View ArticleBrooklyn Book Festival
The Brooklyn Book Festival is tomorrow, and it's packed with great-sounding events -- so many that it looks like it'll be quite a challenge to pick and choose. The weather is supposed to be...
View ArticleThe last 100 reviews
So, another 100 reviews up at the complete review, as we've now hit 3601, and here some statistics about the last hundred (well, numbers 3501 through 3600): - The 100 reviews were...
View ArticleSt. Francis College Literary Prize
The St. Francis College Literary Prize -- a biennial US$50,000 prize: "for a 3rd to 5th published work of fiction" -- has apparently been announced (though not yet at, or anywhere near, the...
View ArticleWhere Pigeons Don't Fly review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Saudi author Yousef Al-Mohaimeed's Where Pigeons Don't Fly, now available from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.
View ArticleWhat Will He Do with It ? - the Arno Schmidt version
Suhrkamp is re-issuing the great Arno Schmidt's translation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's What Will He Do with It ? ('Was wird er damit machen ?') ! Check out their publicity page, which...
View ArticleJenny Erpenbeck Q & A
At DeutscheWelle Sabine Peschel has a Q & A with Jenny Erpenbeck about her German Book Prize-shortlisted Gehen, ging, gegangen (see, e.g., the Knaus foreign rights information page).
View ArticleTranslations from the ... Kannada
In The Hindu M.Ahiraj has the good news that: CUK to publish English translations of classic literary works in Kannada, as the Central University of Karnataka is apparently going to: "take up...
View ArticleSamuel Johnson Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction -- or, well, they're announcing it today and haven't announced it at the official site as I write this (but maybe...
View ArticleCarmen Balcells (1930-2015)
As longtime readers know, I have my ... doubts about 'literary' agents but, no question, some of them have been enormously influential, and leading Spanish agent Carmen Balcells -- who handled...
View ArticleThe Camp of the Saints review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jean Raspail's infamous collapse-of-Western-civilization novel, The Camp of the Saints. I've rarely been so uncomfortable...
View ArticleGeorgi Gospodinov Q & A
At Fiction Writers Review Steven Wingate has a Q & A with Georgi Gospodinov, mainly about his recent The Physics of Sorrow. And if you're in New York today you can catch Gospodinov...
View ArticleShortlist: Cundill Prize in historical literature
They've announced the shortlist for the Cundill Prize in historical literature, a US$75,000 (!) prize. Three finalists will be named 5 October, and the winner will be announced 2 November.
View ArticleShortlist: FT & McK Business Book award
They've announced the shortlist for this year's £30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award; since the page at the site listing the titles is, at this time,...
View ArticlePrize: Constantijn Huygens-prijs
The €10,000 Constantijn Huygens-prijs is the leading Dutch 'lifetime achievement' author-award, with a solid record (and a few notable misses ...); winners include Cheese-author Willem Elsschot...
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