Reading in ... Romania
The Romanian Gaudeamus International Book and Education Fair runs from 18 through 22 November in Bucharest -- the 22nd edition of the fair. At BalkanInsight Marian Chiriac reports...
View ArticleNew Statesman 2015 favourites list
The past two weeks The Spectator has been having contributors name their best and most overrated books of the year (see my previous mention), and now the New Statesman also gets a nice cast of...
View ArticleJalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards
The Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards are one Iran's leading literary prizes -- and, with each award paying out "110 Bahar Azadi gold coins" (reportedly: "worth over $33,000"), remunerative --...
View ArticleAn Englishman in Madrid review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Eduardo Mendoza's An Englishman in Madrid. This book won the Premio Planeta in 2010 -- a prize that with its €601,000 cash...
View ArticleTranslation from ... Hindi
Anjum Hasan's fascinating look at 'Reading Hindi literature in translation' -- English translation -- in The Caravan, Novel Renditions, is now fully accessible online. An interesting...
View ArticleThe Blizzard review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Vladimir Sorokin's unusual (but seasonal ?) Russian satire/homage/zombie tale, The Blizzard, coming out next week from Farrar,...
View Article(Australian) Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists
Malcolm Turnbull is the fourth Australian prime minister in office since June 2013, but after a bit of turmoil in recent years things seem to have settled down around the Australian Prime...
View ArticleAugustpriset
They've announced the winners of this year's Augustpriset, the leading Swedish literary prize, with Montecore-author Jonas Hassen Khemiri taking the fiction prize, with Allt jag inte minns....
View ArticleReading in ... India
The peculiar business that is book publishing is, of course, peculiar worldwide -- hence it's not just in the US/UK/etc. that one can find a headline such as The reading conundrum: Is the books...
View ArticleBecause She Never Asked review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Enrique Vila-Matas' Sophie Calle-novel(la), Because She Never Asked. This is actually just one story from a bigger Spanish...
View ArticleCassava Republic coming to UK
In less than a decade Cassava Republic has established itself as a leading Nigerian publisher -- and it's great to hear that, as Natasha Onwuemezi reports in The Bookseller, African publisher...
View ArticleLibrary of Bangladesh
I mentioned the announcement of the Dhaka Translation Center's 'Library of Bangladesh'-series earlier this year, and apparently the first two volumes are now out, published by bengal lights:...
View ArticleTranslations from ... Madagascar
The December issue of Words Without Borders will apparently be devoted to literature from Madagascar, and at Broadly Ilana Masad profiles translator Allison Charette, in Meet Madagascar's...
View ArticleFifteen Dogs review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of André Alexis' Fifteen Dogs. Yes, I was led to this by its recent Scotiabank Giller Prize-win -- that, and the...
View ArticlePrize: Prix Ivoire
The Prix Ivoire pour la Littérature Africaine d'Expression Francophone has announced its 2015 winner -- and it's Je suis vivant, by Haitian author Kettly Mars; see, for example, the Haiti Libre...
View ArticlePrizes: Irish Book Awards
They've announced (albeit not very conveniently at the official site) the winners of this year's Irish Book Awards, with The Green Road, by Anne Enright, taking book of the year honors.
View ArticlePrize: Jan Michalski
The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature is an impressive (if shockingly poorly publicized) prize, without language or genre restrictions, and they've announced the winner of this year's prize --...
View ArticleLife, Only Better review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Anna Gavalda's Life, Only Better, just out in English from Europa Editions. I'm always curious about bestselling fiction...
View ArticleLa nave di Teseo
The big news in Italian publishing this year has been the sale of RCS Libri to Mondadori (see, for ecample, the Mondadori press release), with venerable literary imprints including Bompiani and...
View ArticleLire books of the year
French magazine Lire annually selects a top book in twenty different categories -- with one crowned as overall "meilleur livre de l'année". They announced this year's list -- and 2084, by...
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