Krasznahorkai Q and A
At hlo Gabriella Nagy has a Q & A with Animalinside- and Satantango-author Krasznahorkai László, Towards new unrealities.
View ArticleAuthor-royalties in Israel
In Israel the widely-perceived threat to the health of the publishing industry is not an online-behemoth such as Amazon.com, but rather two market-dominating book chains, and as Maya Sela...
View ArticleRossica Translation Prize
They've announced that the Rossica Translation Prize 2012 goes to John Elsworth, for his translation of Petersburg by Andrei Bely. Pushkin Press brought this out -- see their publicity...
View ArticleAmir Hassan Cheheltan profile
At Qantara.de Stefan Buchen has an interesting profile of The Loyal Dissident -- Iranian Writer Amir Hassan Cheheltan. The only one of his works under review at the complete review is...
View ArticleIndian classics in English
In The Hindu Sohini Chakravorty reports on Revisiting Indian classics, as Indian readers are apparently turning to many Indian classics -- in English translation: Author and blogger Arnab Ray...
View ArticleDublinesque review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Enrique Vila-Matas' new novel, Dublinesque.
View ArticleScience Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards finalists
I'm reminded by Arabic Literature (in English)'s mention that they've announced the finalists for the 2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards -- and two of the 'long form'...
View ArticleKorean literature abroad
In The Korea Herald Claire Lee reports that KLTI to select 15 authors for global launch, as: The Korea Literature Translate Institute announced on Tuesday they will select 15 local writers and...
View ArticleAll Men are Liars review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Alberto Manguel's All Men are Liars, now also out in a US edition. Having just reviewed Enrique Vila-Matas' Dublinesque, I...
View ArticlePolizzotti on Albert Cossery
Mark Polizzotti -- translator of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet and works by Jean Echenoz, among others -- considers Extreme Indolence: On the Fiction of Albert Cossery in The Nation....
View ArticleUniversity of Missouri Press closing
In the Columbia Daily Tribune Janese Silvey reports that University of Missouri Press is closing [via]; no press release or notification at the official site, or the university site yet, last I...
View ArticleThe Life of an Unknown Man review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andreï Makine's The Life of an Unknown Man. Interesting to note that this is the fourth of the novels I've recently...
View ArticleCaine Prize discussions
Disappointingly, the recent announcement of the finalists for this year's Caine Prize for African Writing has also led to a variety of dirty laundry and accusations being aired: at Pambazuka...
View ArticleOrange Prize
They've announced that The Song of Achilles (by Madeline Miller) has won the Is-it-still-called-the-Orange-? Prize [see my previous mention]. It's not under review at the complete...
View ArticleWriting in ... Nigeria
Both parts of Tony Afejuku's 'Language, Literature and Decolonization of Nigeria's Political Culture' are now available in Vanguard -- parts one and two. Afejuku thinks: Of course,...
View ArticleMartin Amis profile
In The Telegraph Mick Brown profiles Martin Amis: over-60 and under-appreciated, as the Lionel Asbo-publicity machine gets rolling (look for some fun, outlandish Amis pronouncements as it...
View ArticlePatrick White at 100
Nobel laureate Patrick White would have turned 100 today -- and it's disappointing to see that there's not more coverage of the great writer to commemorate the occasion. In The...
View ArticleNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o lecture
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o gave a lecture at the University of The Free State a few days ago, and in the Sunday Independent they have an edited version, We have to reconnect with our being. I'd...
View ArticleWriters' houses
In The Telegraph Philip Hensher wonders: Supporters bid to preserve Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's home, but do we read too much into writers' houses ? (The easy answer: of course we do. My...
View ArticleFranz Kafka Prize
The Franz Kafka Prize, which got a lot of attention a few years back when the winner went on to win the Nobel in the same year in two successive years, has announced that the Ceny Franze Kafky...
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