Mongolian Literature
In The UB Post B.Khash-Erdene offers a very slight overview of Mongolian Literature.
View ArticleNew Asia Literary Review
A new issue of Asia Literary Review is (partially) available online.
View ArticleScience fiction from/in ... China
Xinhua reports that Chinese sci-fi eyes world market, as: The editor who has brought more than 200 foreign science fiction novels to China has decided to introduce the most popular...
View ArticleGerman Book Prize longlist
They've announced that Jury nominates 20 novels for longlist for the German Book Prize 2012. They selected the twenty from 162 titles; disappointingly, they, like the Man Booker Prize,...
View ArticleMalaysian 'Readers' Choice Awards'
With BookFest Malaysia set to run 18 to 26 August they're also preparing for 'The Popular-The Star Readers' Choice Awards'; see the fiction nominees (warning ! jpg format ??!?), while in The...
View ArticleTrinidadian and Toboggan literary landscapes
In the Guardian Zahra Gordon describes Kris Rampersad's attempts at Mapping the literary imagination in the interesting-sounding LiTTscapes: Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago.
View ArticleWriting Love review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Syrian author Khalil Sweileh's Writing Love, the 2009 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature winner, now out in English from...
View ArticleSelf-publishing overview
In The Independent Christina Patterson looks at How the great writers published themselves.
View ArticleFiction in ... Algeria
At Qantara.de Martina Sabra looks at 'Literature and Collective Trauma in Algeria' in Moving Beyond the Examination of History. She notes: While to this day, those in power in Algeria...
View ArticleFiction in ... contemporary Egypt
In The Guardian Ahdaf Soueif makes that familiar ugly argument, In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat -- almost as popular a topic for opinion pieces as arguing that the best art...
View ArticleIan McEwan profile
In The Scotsman David Robinson profiles Ian McEwan, author, whose Sweet Tooth is out soon -- sooner in the UK (get your copy at Amazon.co.uk), not quite so soon -- only November -- in the US...
View Article'Last Book Sale' post-mortem
As widely reported, Larry McMurtry held an enormous auction, The Last Book Sale, at his Booked Up store(s) -- and now he offers a post mortem at the NYRblog. Disappointingly: Everything...
View ArticleRa Ki Rangarajan (1922-2012)
Prolific Tamil author Ra Ki Rangarajan -- apparently popularly known as 'Ki Ra' (கி. ரா.) -- has passed away -- noteworthy, among other reasons, because he sounds like he was truly impressively...
View ArticlePankaj Mishra Q & A
In The Hindu Tabish Khair has a Q & A with Pankaj Mishra, Return of the native -- with some reactions to the (wide spectrum of) reactions to Mishra's new book, From the Ruins of Empire, has...
View ArticleArabic literature abroad
In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung Ibrahim Farghali -- author of, for example, The Smiles of the Saints -- believes Die arabische Literatur hat mehr zu bieten (i.e. 'Arab literature has more to offer'...
View ArticleReading in ... Bombay (Mumbai)
In the Times of India Madhavi Rajadhyaksha reports that in Bombay (Mumbai) It's raining publications but there's a literary drought, looking at the disappointing data from the recent World...
View ArticleSyndrome E review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Franck Thilliez's thriller, Syndrome E. I had high(er) hopes for this (in a translation by Mark Polizzotti, who re-did...
View ArticlePierre Boulle
No. 137 in the Independent on Sunday's 'Invisible Ink' series has Christopher Fowler write about Pierre Boulle -- the prolific author whose legacy now finds: "Only two books are in print."...
View ArticleReading in ... New Zealand
With New Zealand the guest of honour at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair (and, yes, that official site doesn't quite measure up to last year's Fabulous Iceland (which is still worth visiting))...
View ArticleThe Roving Shadows review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pascal Quignard's 2002 prix Goncourt-winning The Roving Shadows -- now out in English from the ever-more impressive looking...
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