Prize: "Welt"-Literaturpreis
The €10,000 "Welt"-Literaturpreis is a leading German international author prize, with a decent list of winners (including Murakami Haruki last year and Jonathan Franzen in 2013) -- albeit...
View ArticleGöteborg Book Fair
The Göteborg Book Fair starts today, and runs through the 27th. Hungary is the foreign focus, but there's a lot else going on -- 780 writers and lecturers from 31 countries !
View ArticleArno Schmidt exhibit
The exhibit Arno Schmidt: Eine Ausstellung in 100 Stationen ('an exhibit in 100 stations') opened at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin yesterday (it runs through 10 January), and it sounds...
View ArticleSwiss Book Prize shortlist
The Schweizer Buchpreis -- which is, in fact, only the German-language Swiss Book Prize -- has announced its five-title shortlist, selected from 90 entries. The winner will be announced...
View ArticleShe Who Was No More review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Boileau-Narcejac's classic She Who Was No More -- on which the Diabolique-films were based -- just re-issued by Pushkin in their...
View ArticleWilliam Hill Sports Book of the Year longlist
They've announced the longlist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award --: the world's longest established and most valuable literary sports-writing prize. As well as a £27,000 cash...
View ArticleRoyal Society Winton Prize
They've announced that the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books goes to Adventures in the Anthropocene, by Gaia Vince. See the publicity pages from Chatto & Windus and...
View ArticleHamid Ismailov Q & A
At Electric Lit Melody Nixon has The Peripheral Writer: An Interview With Hamid Ismailov -- a rare Central Asian author whose works are available in English, including The Underground, just out...
View ArticleSony Labou Tansi, poet
Sony Labou Tansi, from what is now the Congo (DRC), died in 1995 but a couple of years ago I hoped the English translation of his Life and a Half would make for a bit of a revival, at least in...
View ArticleSigit Susanto Q & A
At Qantara.de Birgit Lattenkamp has a Q & A with Indonesian author Sigit Susanto (as Indonesia-as-guest-of-honour-time at the Frankfurt Book Fair approaches, in a couple of weeks)....
View Article109 entries, no winner
The US$100,000 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature rotates through (four) genres, and this year it was the turn of children's literature. They got 109 entries, but, as Evelyn Osagie reports in...
View ArticleKafka, Angry Poet
Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters impressed me greatly, and I was very pleased to see and now read a copy of her Kafka, Angry Poet (see the Seagull publicity page, or get your...
View ArticleThe French influence in Viet Nam
Via I'm pointed to a Việt Nam News piece on Scholars debate role of French language in Viet Nam -- an interesting look at the colonial legacy. Interesting to see them consider the...
View ArticleVariations on Shakespeare
So they're apparently publishing a Hogarth Shakespeare-series -- "Shakespeare's plays reimagined by some of today's bestselling and most celebrated writers". Sort of like Canongate's...
View ArticleMultiple Personalities review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tatyana Shcherbina's Multiple Personalities, just out from Glagoslav.
View ArticleDalkey's new home
As I previously mentioned Dalkey Archive Press has moved on -- to the University of Houston-Victoria, Texas -- and, as the Victoria Advocate reports they've now settled in, as Dalkey publishes...
View ArticleBlurbs !
'Blurbs' remain a fascinating part of the odd business that is publishing, and at NPR Colin Dwyer offers an enjoyable overview, in Forget The Book, Have You Read This Irresistible Story On...
View ArticleWriting in ... Indonesia
In less than a month Indonesia will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and at Inside Indonesia Petia Dimitrova has a Q & A with Lontar's John McGlynn about Bringing Indonesian...
View ArticleJomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature
The winners of the (Kenyan) Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature -- actually several prizes -- have been announced, with Dust (by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor) winning the adult English category (a book...
View ArticleAgustín Fernández Paz reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two of popular Galician-writing author Agustín Fernández Paz's novels just out from Small Stations Press: Black Air Winter...
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