English PEN translation grants
English PEN has announced their translation-supporting grants, four 'PEN Promotes' grants (which presumably pay for some promotion) and sixteen 'PEN Translates' grants (with Human Acts by Han...
View ArticleArthur Schnitzler archive
Arthur Schnitzler's archive has long been at Cambridge University Library, but apparently only now did they finally dot all the right i's and so they're now able to announce that Saved from the...
View ArticleThe Tears of Re review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gene Kritsky's book on Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt, The Tears of Re, just out from Oxford University Press. This is the...
View ArticleNovember Words without Borders
The November issue of Words without Borders is now available online, and it's great to see the focus is Cambodia: Angkor to Year Zero and Beyond.
View ArticlePrize: Daesan Literary Awards
They've announced this year's winners of the Daesan Literary Awards -- "the largest set of literary prizes at present given in Korea", with category-winners collecting ₩50,000,000 (just over...
View ArticlePrize: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
They've announced that the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction goes to Neurotribes, by Steve Silberman. (The UK edition is subtitled The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About...
View ArticleDark Corners review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ruth Rendell's last novel, the just-published Dark Corners.
View ArticleGellu Naum Hyperion
The new issue of Hyperion is the Gellu Naum Centenary Issue and it's available in all its 279-page glory online -- so what are you waiting for ? Two of Naum's books are under review at...
View ArticlePrize: Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
They've announced that The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (by Susan Pedersen) has won the US$75,000 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. See also the Oxford...
View ArticlePrizes: Goncourt, Renaudot
The two biggest annual French literary prizes were announced yesterday, with Boussole (by Mathias Enard) winning the prix Goncourt, and D'après une histoire vraie (by Delphine de Vigan -- in...
View ArticleNew Literature from Europe Festival
The New Literature from Europe Festival runs 6 to 9 November in New York city, and looks like it has a nice selection of authors.
View ArticlePrix Femina
The big-two French literary prizes were announced on Monday -- see my previous mention -- but that still leaves a second tier of prizes to name their winners, with the Femina next up: they've...
View ArticlePremio Nacional de Letras Españolas
The Spanish Ministry of Culture awards the Premio Cervantes, the most prestigious Spanish(-language) author prize; they also award a Premio Nacional de Letras Españolas -- a national Spanish...
View ArticlePhilip Pullman Q & A
At Slate Katy Waldman has a Q & A with Philip Pullman, as it's the twentieth anniversary of his Northern Lights (published in the US as The Golden Compass), the first in his His Dark...
View ArticlePrix Médicis
Another day, another French literary prize: yesterday they announced the winners of the prix Médicis -- a threefer (fiction, non, and translated fiction). Goncourt-finalist Titus...
View ArticleCaptivity review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Spiró György big, impressive historical novel, Captivity, just out from Restless Books. Spiró is in the US promoting the...
View ArticleTranslating from ... the Korean
Malawi literature isn't exactly high-profile abroad, but at okayafrica Chisomo Kalinga reports on The Clubs Shaping Malawi's Literary Future. A good overview, and great to see the variety of...
View ArticleTranslating from ... the Korean
They've announced a variety of translation awards in Korea (for translations from the Korean), and in The Korean Times Yun Suh-young reports how Translation award winners discuss challenges.
View ArticleFinlandia-palkinto finalists
The Finlandia-palkinto is the leading Finnish literary prize (and pays €30,000 to the winner) and, as Yle reports, Seasoned novelists contend for 2015 Finlandia Literary Prize. Among the...
View ArticleLiterary mentors
At Guernica Maaza Mengiste and Rodrigo Rey Rosa write 'On being mentored by Breyten Breytenbach and Paul Bowles' (respectively), in Fiction Tells a Truth That History Cannot.
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