Caine Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing -- and you can read the shortlisted titles at the official site; one of them is described as: "a hardboiled noir...
View ArticleIn One Person review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of John Irving's new novel, In One Person, which will, no doubt, be getting a lot of publicity in the coming weeks.
View ArticleKehlmann's Gödel-play
There will be a staged reading of Daniel Kehlmann's Kurt Gödel-play, Ghosts in Princeton, at the Center for Jewish History in New York tomorrow at 18:00. There's something of an...
View ArticleHHhH review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Laurent Binet's HHhH, now out in English. I had high hopes for this; they were not met. It is amusing to see that...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize sponsor concerns ?
The sponsor (and namesake) of several literary prizes -- most notably the Man Booker Prize -- hedge fund Man Group is apparently not doing well, as Azam Ahmed and Mark Scott report at The New...
View Article'Reviewing Translations' at PEN World Voices
The PEN World Voices festival really gets going in the coming days, and one of tomorrow's highlights is certainly the Reviewing Translations panel, with Ruth Franklin, Julya Rabinowich, and...
View ArticleSalon National du Livre in Haïti
As Haiti Libre reports, there's a 1st edition of National Book Fair in Haïti which runs through tomorrow; they're also inaugurating a Grand Prix National des lettres "with a budget of one...
View ArticleTranslating from ... Arabic
At Qantara.de Susannah Tarbush reports on the Arabic-to-English literary translation situation, in Raising the Profile. (Note that the report she mentions, Literary Translation from...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Awards ceremony
A reminder that the Best Translated Book Awards will be handed out tomorrow, Friday, 4 May, at 18:00 at McNally Jackson in New York. I was one of the judges, and I'll be there ........
View ArticleIstros Books
Another specialist publisher I'm glad to hear about: Istros Books -- who focus: "on quality literature in translation from South-East Europe". At The Economist's Eastern approaches...
View ArticleJezebel review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Irène Némirovsky's Jezebel, now also available in the US in Sandra Smith's translation that came out in the UK in 2010.
View ArticleGranta goes Bulgarian
Granta goes Bulgarian, with an international edition, Granta България, whose first issue is officially being unveiled today. Among those involved in the magazine: The Collector of...
View ArticleRead Russia 2012
The Russians are trying hard to make a case for their fiction in the US, and Read Russia 2012, which runs 2 to 7 June in New York (overlapping with BookExpo America, but also including many...
View Article(Australian) Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists
The shortlists for the (Australian) Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced; the winners get A$80,000 -- tax-free (which apparently isn't the case for other literary awards down...
View ArticleBaha Taher Q and A
At Qantara.de Karen Krüger has a Q & A with Egyptian writer Baha Taher, "Modern Egypt was built on the shoulders of intellectuals" [German original], specifically about the current...
View ArticleWriting in ... Malta
In the Times of Malta they consider Transcending Malta's literary limitations -- arguing: What is missing is the mentality to strike out and find the markets that transcend our geographical...
View ArticleThe Nation on Amazon.com
The new issue of The Nation has three articles on Amazon.com: • Michael Naumann explains How Germany Keeps Amazon at Bay and Literary Culture Alive -- noting that: In Germany,...
View ArticleLife is Short and Desire Endless review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Patrick Lapeyre's prix Femina-winning novel, Life is Short and Desire Endless, just out in English translation.
View ArticleSofi Oksanen's new novel
Helsingin Sanomat reports that Purge-author Sofi Oksanen's new novel, Kun kyyhkyset katosivat ('When the Pigeons Disappeared') is due out in Finland this fall -- and that Record print run...
View ArticleElif Batuman on Pamuk's Museum of Innocence
In the London Review of Books Elif Batuman writes about Orhan Pamuk's newly-opened Museum of Innocence (based, of course, on his novel, The Museum of Innocence).
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