Animal Farm in Shona
At English PEN Petina Gappah writes On Translating Orwell's Animal Farm, as the book: "has never been published in any of Zimbabwe's indigenous languages" and she is working on a Shona...
View ArticleLisa Jardine (1944-2015)
Sad to hear that academic and author Lisa Jardine (who also happened to be the great Jacob Bronowski's daughter) has passed away; see, for example, notices in The Guardian and The Independent....
View ArticleSEA Write Award
The Thai SEA Write Award has been announced, and it goes to ไส้เดือนตาบอดในเขาวงกต by Veeraporn Nitiprapha; see, for example, the Bangkok Post reports, SEA Write award goes to new novelist...
View ArticleKarl Kraus' The Last Days of Mankind
2015 has been a pretty good year for re- or more-complete translations of important authors' works. Among others, we've had: Another The Tale of Genji translation (Dennis Washburn's; see the...
View ArticleDhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature
It's great that there is a well-endowed prize -- the winner gets C$25,000 -- for Punjabi Literature, though at first glance it might strike one as odd that it's not based in ... well, Punjab....
View ArticleNew World Literature Today
The November/December issue of World Literature Today is now out, with quite a bit of the contents available online -- including, fortunately, the entire review section, World Literature in...
View ArticleNew issue of list
The Autumn 2015 issue of list: Books from Korea is now available online, with Hwang Tong-gyu as 'featured writer', and a focus on 'Korean Eco-Literature'.
View ArticleFrench prize finalists
The biggest of the French book prizes -- the Goncourt and the Renaudot -- announce the winning titles next Tuesday, 3 November, and they've both now announced their finalists. The prix...
View ArticleGerman critics' best list - November
I occasionally mention the SWR German critics' monthly best list, where the leading German literary critics vote for the best titles of the month, and the November list seems worth a mention...
View ArticleYuri Mamleev (1931-2015)
Metaphysical author Yuri Mamleev has died aged 83 Alexandra Guzeva reports at Russia Beyond the Headlines. Mamleev (as they transliterate his name -- it's: Юрий Мамлеев) hasn't made that...
View ArticleGovernor General's Literary Awards
Yes, they've announced the GGs -- the (Canadian) Governor General's Literary Awards. Guy Vanderhaeghe's Daddy Lenin and Other Stories took the English-language fiction prize, and Nicolas...
View ArticleThe Big Green Tent review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ludmila Ulitskaya's much-anticipated (and apparently translation-delayed) The Big Green Tent, finally coming out in Polly...
View ArticleMore French finalists
The finalists for yet another French literary prize have been announced: the prix Médicis, with its three categories (fiction, non, translated fiction). Eleven French fiction-titles and...
View ArticleYasnaya Polyana Book Awards
They've conferred the Yasnaya Polyana Book Awards, and since they gave The Symmetry Teacher -author Andrei Bitov one of the prizes (in the 'Modern Classics' category ) they must be doing...
View ArticleNordic Council Literature Prize
The Nordic Council Literature Prize is the top Scandinavian book award, and it has a solid track record -- just see the winning titles under review at the complete review -- and they've now...
View ArticleTranslated literature in ... the US
In Library Journal Barbara Hoffert has a nice long overview of Reading the World | Fiction in Translation, with a focus on the small independent presses that are leading the...
View Article(American) National Translation Awards
They've announced the American Literary Translators Association's National Translation Awards, and the prose winner was William M. Hutchins for his translation of Ibrahim al-Koni's New Waw:...
View ArticleThe Gun review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nakamura Fuminori's The Gun, coming in January from Soho Crime. This is the fourth Nakamura under review at the complete...
View ArticlePosthumous Mulisch
As longtime readers know, I am a great admirer of the great Harry Mulisch, so the announcement of the publication of a previously unpublished work of his is big news around here. De...
View ArticleThe 6:41 to Paris review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jean-Philippe Blondel's The 6:41 to Paris, just out from New Vessel Press.
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