Satanské verše and the Saudis
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses has long been available in a Czech translation, but they've now published a new translation -- and the Saudis, trying to shift attention from all the messes...
View ArticleSamuel Johnson Prize shortlist
They announced the six-title-strong shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction yesterday (though not yet at the official site as I write this ...); see, for example, the report at...
View ArticleEd Park on the Library of Korean Literature
In this week's issue of The New Yorker Ed Park writes about 'Reading Dalkey Archive Press's Library of Korean Literature', in Sorry not Sorry, a good overview of the series, and providing good...
View ArticleDeutscher Buchpreis
The imitation-Man Booker German Book Prize has established itself as the most prestigious German ... uh, book prize (though its €25,000 prize isn't even the richest German book prize whose...
View ArticleThe Art of the Publisher review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of author (and Adelphi-publisher -- sort of the antithesis of AmazonCrossing) Roberto Calasso's The Art of the Publisher, due out...
View ArticleAmazonCrossing invests in translation
Amazon has announced that AmazonCrossing Announces $10 Million Commitment to Translating Books into English -- explaining that this: "investment will go toward fees paid to translators over the...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize for Fiction
As widely reported, they've announced the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and it goes to A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James. See also the publicity pages...
View ArticleGerman Book Prize follow-up
A few days ago I mentioned that Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969, by Frank Witzel, had won this year's German Book Prize, and now...
View ArticlePublishing translations in ... the US
The new issue of Poets & Writers has a lengthy (and, sigh, spread out over five web-pages ...) Instinct, Energy, and Luck: An Indie-Publisher Roundtable on Literature in Translation led by...
View ArticleSouth African Literary Awards nominees
They've announced the nominees for the 2015 South African Literary Awards -- which includes several awards for writing in languages other than English, and lifetime achievement awards for...
View Article(American) National Book Awards finalists
They've announced the finalists for the 2015 (American) National Book Awards; see also the official press release (warning ! dreaded pdf format !). Sorry, none of the finalists are under...
View ArticleThe Great Swindle review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pierre Lemaitre's The Great Swindle -- the 2013 prix Goncourt winner, which is now available (under this very different title) in...
View ArticleDarf profile
In The National Nick Leech writes about The House of Fergiani: a Libyan publishing family's commitment to literature and the liberating power of books, profiling the revived Darf Publishers.
View ArticleOctober issue of Asymptote
The October issue of Asymptote is now available online -- wonderfully wide-ranging as always, with fiction, non, poetry, and drama (!), translated from languages ranging from Armenian through...
View ArticleNew issue of Swedish Book Review
The 2015:2 Issue of Swedish Book Review is now (partially) available online -- a few articles and excerpts and, more importantly, all the (many) reviews, a great overview of a good selection of...
View ArticleIndonesian literature in translation
Indonesia is the guest of honour at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, and in The Jakarta Post Endy M. Bayuni notes one of the obvious lessons learnt: Translation is key to Indonesian literature...
View ArticlePremio Planeta de Novela
So they handed out the Man Booker Prize for fiction earlier this week (see my mention), paying out £50,000, but now they've also announced the winner of a book prize where the winner gets some...
View ArticleIcarus review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Deon Meyer's latest thriller, Icarus -- the tenth Deon Meyer novel under review at the complete review.
View ArticleBurma anthology
The British Council in Burma (Myanmar) has been working one their Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds project for a while now and have now published, locally, an anthology collecting: 28 original short...
View ArticleThe Weight of Things review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Marianne Fritz's 1978 Robert-Walser-Preis-winning debut, The Weight of Things, now out in English from the Dorothy project
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