Yoshimoto Banana Q & A
In The Hindu Tishani Doshi has a Q & A with popular Japanese author Yoshimoto Banana which is about as upbeat as the headline: 'If I were young today, I might have already killed myself'....
View ArticleGamal al-Ghitani (1945-2015)
Leading Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani has passed away; see, for example reports in the Egypt Independent and at the BBC. I was a big fan and admirer; see also reviews of Zayni Barakat...
View ArticleJohn O'Brien Q & A
At Totally Dublin Jonathan Creasy has a Q & A with Dalkey Archive Press-founder John O'Brien, with some interesting background (and foreground -- including: "We are publishing 38 titles...
View ArticleAugustpriset finalists
The Augustpriset is the major (domestic) Swedish book prize, and they've now announced the finalists in the various categories. Several of the authors with books that are in contention...
View ArticleDSC Prize longlist
They've announced the eleven-title-strong longlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. The only title under review at the complete review is The Way Things Were (by Aatish...
View ArticlePost-Nobel Alexievich coverage
There was a good deal of Svetlana Alexievich-coverage when it was announced that she was this year's Nobel literature laureate (see, my previous mention) but not too much of particular interest...
View ArticleWürth-Preis für Europäische Literatur
Peter Handke won't be heading to Stockholm in December, but continues to pick up literary prizes left and right, and they've now announced that he will get the Würth-Preis für Europäische...
View ArticlePushkin Press profile
In Harvard Magazine Spencer Lenfield profiles Pushkin Press and its publisher and managing director Adam Freudenheim, in "Once Upon a Time" in Translation: A publisher brings world literature...
View ArticleDie Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven...
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Frank Witzel's Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969. As I noted...
View ArticlePrix Femina finalists
The prix Femina is into its third (and final-before-the-winners-are-announced) round and has now announced the finalists in its three categories, with the novels by Boualem Sansal and Hédi...
View ArticleDubravka Ugrešić conference
The Harriman Institute at Columbia University has a conference today and tomorrow, Through the Transnational Lenses of Dubravka Ugrešić, with Ugrešić herself in attendance (indeed, giving the...
View ArticleSaltire Literary Awards shortlists
They've announced the Saltire Literary Awards shortlists in the six categories in which they hand out prizes. These awards are apparently: "now widely recognised as Scotland's most...
View ArticleCentral Asian books
The Modern Novel -- which reviews an impressive range of titles from all over the world -- recently visited Central Asia for two weeks and now reports on the trip to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and...
View ArticlePaul West (1930-2015)
Paul West recently passed away -- with, somewhat surprisingly, The New York Times the first major media outlet to take note, with William Grimes' obituary. (The only earlier mention I saw was...
View ArticleWriting in ... South Korea
In The Korea Herald Claire Lee reports that in South Korea some Up-and-coming writers test fiction's boundaries, profiling Kim Ae-ran, Jeong Yu-jeong, Sohn A-ram, and Jang Gang-myung....
View ArticleReading in ... South Korea
In The Korea Herald Lee Sun-young looks at 'How homegrown novels have become a rare find on best-seller lists', in The story of Korean fiction: Proud tradition, humble present, reporting that:...
View ArticleNeustadt International Prize for Literature 2016 to Dubravka Ugrešić
They've announced that the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature goes to the very worthy Dubravka Ugrešić (a nice surprise-conclusion to that conference on her they just held in New...
View ArticleDeath in Veracruz review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Héctor Aguilar Camín's Death in Veracruz -- finally available in English thirty years after its original publication, from...
View ArticleThe Hindu Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the 2015 The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction -- which is for: "the best in Indian fiction in English" published between July 2014 and June 2015. Several...
View ArticleReading in Zimbabwe
In The Herald Stanely Mushava writes about Re-inventing Zim's reading culture. Among the projects he mentions as possible ways of reaching new and wider audiences: Tsitsi Dangarembga has...
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