Translating from the ... Tamil
At Livemint Rajni George has a Q&A - Lakshmi Holmström - The Norwich Tamilian.
View ArticleBookselling in ... Thailand
In the Bangkok Post Steve Rhodes reports that: 'Chiang Mai boasts some iconic second-hand bookshops' as he profiles Backstreet Books, A bibliophile's paradise.
View Article'Literary' agents in ... India
The rise of 'literary' agents in India continues to be in the (local) news (see also my recent mention), in what's beginning to look like a desperate concerted PR campaign, as now Jaya...
View ArticleQ and A: Amos Oz
In Haaretz Niva Lanir has a Q & A/profile with/of Amos Oz: 'I get up in the morning and ask: What if ?', mainly about Oz's new book, בין חברים ('Between Friends'); see also the Keter...
View ArticleQ and A: Michael Ondaatje
At Guernica they have a Q & A adapted from a conversation between Amitava Kumar and Michael Ondaatje at the recent Jaipur Literature Festival.
View ArticleIvan Vladislaviċ reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two books by Ivan Vladislaviċ: The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories A Labour of Moles Great to see these -- in...
View ArticleLiterary festivals in ... Nigeria
In This Day Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports that: 'Despite the waning reading culture, a few landmark literary festivals have kept the literary mills turning', in Feasts for Nigeria's Literati.
View ArticleWriting in ... Azerbaijan
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Literary production of Azerbaijan decrease, as: After Azerbaijan's independence literary production decreased and the production of literary novels is on the...
View ArticleNordiska pris to Einar Már Guðmundsson
The Swedish Academy selects who gets the Nobel Prize in literature each fall, but in the spring they award their other literary prize, the nordiska pris (the Nordic Prize, reserved for...
View Article'World Republic of Letters' site
Yale University Press' excellent Margellos World Republic of Letters-series -- see the titles from it under review at the complete review -- now has its own official site. Nice !...
View ArticleMaison de l'Ecriture
Here's something for writers to look forward to: the Fondation Jan Michalski -- who also run the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, which is: "open to authors from the world over and is...
View ArticleElif Shafak profile
In The Telegraph, 'Head of Books' Gaby Wood has a profile of sometimes Turkish-, sometimes English-writing Elif Shafak. Among the wild stories: "It's funny," she goes on, "because this...
View ArticleAstrid Lindgren Memorial Award
They've announced that Dutch author Guus Kuijer will receive the 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award -- a children's book award that pays out the jaw-dropping sum of SEK 5 million, over...
View ArticleMy Struggle review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume epic, My Struggle, forthcoming in the US from Archipelago -- and already...
View ArticleBen Marcus Q and A
At Tablet David Samuels has a Q & A with Ben Marcus, Keeper of the Flame. They open the piece claiming Marcus 'may be the best Jewish writer in America' -- a bit confusing when...
View ArticleVietnamese literature abroad
Tuoitrenews reports that in Viet Nam Local publisher to put out Vietnamese literature abroad, as 'Nguyen Le Chi from Chibooks Publisher talked to The Thao Van Hoa Newspaper about the company's...
View ArticleNew Stéphane Hessel book
Nonagenarian Time for Outrage !-author Stéphane Hessel (who will be at this year's PEN World Voices Festival) has a new book(let) out, The Path to Hope (with Edgar Morin); Guernica has an...
View ArticleWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal ? review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jeanette Winterson's memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal ?
View ArticleEmmanuel Carrère profile
In the Wall Street Journal Lanie Goodman profiles Emmanuel Carrère -- writing mainly about his recent Lives Other Than My Own (published, sigh, in the UK as Other Lives But Mine). She...
View ArticleNordic Council Literature Prize
They've announced that Dager i stillhetens historie, by Norwegian author Merethe Lindstrøm, has won the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize 2012. See also the Aschehoug Agency...
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