Friedrich Ulfers Prize
The Friedrich Ulfers Prize "honors individuals who have championed the advancement of German-language literature in the United States", and they've announced that the 2016 prize will go to...
View ArticleGuardian first book award shortlist
They've announced the 2015 shortlist for the Guardian first book award, and that feature -- in which the authors introduce their work, along with brief extracts of each, is a pretty good...
View Article'Two Centuries of Indian Print'
This sounds promising, as the British Library announces Unlocking India's printed heritage: 200,000 pages of historic books to be made available online. That's a first batch of: "1,000...
View ArticleThe Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Martin Millar's The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies -- featuring, in it ancient Athenian setting, Aristophanes and Socrates...
View ArticleRe-shelving at the NY Public Library
In The New York Times Tom Mashberg reports that Beneath New York Public Library, Shelving Its Past for High-Tech Research Stacks, as the NYPL is (wisely) moving its research collection back to...
View ArticleSaffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts review (and: writing in ... Burma)
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ellen Wiles' look at Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition, in Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts, just...
View ArticlePrix du Meilleur livre étranger
The French prix du Meilleur livre étranger is their one prize solely for foreign literature, awarding a prize for a work of fiction, and a work of non -- and they've announced that: Martin Amis...
View Article3x Alexievich coming to US
The New York Times reports that Nobel Winner Svetlana Alexievich Books to Be Published by Random House, as three old and newer works by the Voices from Chernobyl-author will be published "in...
View ArticleThe New York Review of Books archive
They've announced that The New York Public Library Acquires the Archive of Iconic Publication The New York Review of Books; disappointingly, as noted in The New York Times report, "The library...
View ArticleThe Library review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Zoran Živković's bibliophile sextet, The Library. Bonus: the slim and sleek Kurodahan Press edition is appealingly...
View ArticlePrize: Whitbread Costa Book Awards shortlists
The Whitbread Costa Book Awards have announced their shortlists (warning ! dreaded pdf format !). This is the prize with five categories -- novel, first novel, biography, poetry, and...
View ArticlePrize: Hans Christian Andersen Litteraturpris
The Hans Christian Andersen Litteraturpris -- not (sigh) to be confused with the Hans Christian Andersen Award -- has announced its 2016 award-winner (though not yet at the official site, last...
View ArticleTropisms review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nathalie Sarraute's seminal 1939 work, Tropisms, just re-issued -- perfectly sized -- as a New Direction Pearl.
View ArticleFT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
They've announced the winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and it's The Rise of the Robots -- just plain Rise of the Robots in its US edition -- (by Martin Ford)....
View Article(American) National Book Awards
They've announced the (American) National Book Awards, with Fortune Smiles (by Adam Johnson) winning the fiction prize, and Between the World and Me (by Ta-Nehisi Coates) taking the non...
View ArticlePrivate Life review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Josep Maria de Sagarra's classic 1932 novel of Barcelona, Private Life, just out in English from Archipelago Books.
View ArticlePrix des libraires du Québec longlists
The Prix des libraires du Québec is a French-language literary prize (well prizes, in several categories), and it's always interesting to see what they look at on the other side of the Atlantic...
View ArticleZakaria Tamer in ... Sardinian
An interesting piece by Alessandro Columbu at Arabic Literature (in English), as he writes On Why I Translated Zakaria Tamer's Stories from Arabic into Sardinian. Always good and...
View ArticleMurder Most Serene review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gabrielle Wittkop's Murder Most Serene, one of two Wittkops just out from Wakefield Press in beautiful editions (I'll get to the...
View ArticlePetros Markaris Q & A
Greek mystery writer Petros Markaris recently picked up the Premis LiberPress in the literature category, and at Catalonia Today they have a Q & A with him. Among the interesting...
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