Summer reading
The Telegraph offers its Summer Reading Special, where various writers and others reveal: "what they're taking for their beach-side reading".
View ArticlePremio Strega
They've announced that the 2012 Premio Strega -- the leading Italian book prize -- goes to Inseparabili, by Alessandro Piperno. (Amazingly, they manage to misspell the winning title at the...
View ArticleJohn Banville profile
In The Scotsman David Robinson profiles John Banville, author of Ancient Light Ancient Light is just out in the UK (get your copy at Amazon.co.uk), but only due out in the US in October...
View ArticleWorld Book Capital City 2014 bids
So apparently UNESCO will be deciding what will be the World Book Capital City 2014 soon. (The current one is Yerevan, of course; in 2013 it will be Bangkok, Thailand.) There are eleven...
View ArticleNot Exactly review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kees van Deemter writing In Praise of Vagueness, in Not Exactly.
View ArticleCzech-Korean connections
In Czech diplomat's literary diplomacy in The Korea Times Kim Se-jeong profiles admirably activist Czech ambassador to South Korea Jaroslav Olša, jr.. Apparently: Since 2010, 10 new...
View ArticleIngeborg-Bachmann-Preis
Okay, how can you not love a literary prize where an article about it notes: But since the case of Weiss, "everyone is just waiting for someone to at least eat their manuscript again," said...
View Article'Bengal Lights'
There's a new Bangladeshi literary journal, Bengal Lights, and at the Wall Street Journal's India Realtime Tripti Lahiri talks with editor Khademul Islam, in Q & A: Bengal Lights,...
View ArticlePoetic politicians in Korea
Apparently poetry -- at least of the textbook variety -- and politics aren't reconcilable in South Korea: as, for example, Lee Sun-young reports in The Korea Herald in Poet-turned-politician's...
View ArticleInfrared review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nancy Huston's Infrared -- just out, as a paperback original, in the US (a year after it came out in ... Australia, sigh).
View ArticleAlex Miller profile
In the Irish Times Arminta Wallace profiles Australian author Alex Miller. When I read the title of the piece -- A well kept secret in a world of hype -- I guffawed (yes, guffawed; I...
View ArticleNEA 'Big Read' grants
The American National Endowment for the Arts Announces $1 Million in Grants for The Big Read, with 78 organizations divvying up the money; see the full list (with many going for the same...
View ArticleDSC Prize jury announced
They've announced the jury for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, which will be headed by K. Satchidanandan. (And if it helps make more of Satchidanandan's work readily...
View ArticleLiterary agents (of the even more unsavory sort)
One might think there is nothing lower than the 'literary' agent (well, in the literary field; there are of course real estate agents, those employed in financial services, politicians, .......
View ArticlePreservation in South Sudan
It's not literature at risk, first and foremost, but if this is an issue ..... In the Daily Star Hannah McNeish reports on Salvaging South Sudan's history from dust and termites....
View ArticleWole Soyinka Prize longlist
Via BooksLive I see that the Lumina Foundation has announced (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) the fifteen-title strong longlist for the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa....
View ArticleWorld Book Capital 2014
I mentioned the contest for the title of 'World Book Capital 2014' a few days ago, and now UNESCO has announced that Port Harcourt named "World Book Capital 2014" -- beating out Oxford, among...
View ArticleHouse of the Fortunate Buddhas review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of João Ubaldo Ribeiro's House of the Fortunate Buddhas -- his contribution to Brazilian publisher Objetiva's Plenos Pecados-series...
View Article'Life of Discovery 2012 文化探寻'
In The Daily Iowan Lu Shen reports on this year's University of Iowa's 'Life of Discovery' exchange program between the International Writing Program and the China Writers' Association, in...
View ArticleLittattafan soyayya
At Muslimah Media Watch they report on Censorship and contemporary Hausa literature, with a focus on littattafan soyayya -- the 'Onitsha market literature' of the north (of Nigeria), centered...
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