September issues
Among September issues of online publications now available online are Words without Borders' September 2012: Writing from the Silk Road issue, featuring: "work from Central Asia, Georgia, and...
View ArticleEnglish writing in ... Sri Lanka
In The Nation (Sri Lanka) Vihanga Perera considers English writing (and fiction in general) in Sri Lanka, in Unsold books, noting that: The reality is that in Sri Lanka we do not have a vibrant...
View ArticleE-book reviews
They announced this a couple of weeks ago, and presumably the San Francisco Chronicle is only the first of what will be many outlets offering some variation on The E-Reader: reviews of e-books....
View ArticleBlindly review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Claudio Magris' novel, Blindly, just out in Yale University Press' great Margellos World Republic of Letters series (though it...
View ArticleThe Quarterly Conversation - Fall issue
Issue 29 of The Quarterly Conversation is now available -- a great batch of Labor Day holiday reading. Besides some reviews and a bit by Enrique Vila-Matas, there are several pieces that...
View ArticleReading in ... India
Okay, this is a headline that I could probably dig up every other day, in a different newspaper in a different nation each time: yes, it's that old standard, Critics regret death of reading...
View ArticleReading in ... South Africa
It's National Book Week in South Africa (sorry, there doesn't seem to be any link to any central site ...) and in The Times (South Africa) Siphiwo Mahala suggests We are what we write -- and...
View ArticleGranta abroad
In The New York Times Larry Rohter looks at how literary magazine Granta is going international, in Literature in Any Language: Journal Takes That Literally.
View ArticleLiteraturkanon
The German weekly Die Zeit has been running a series on a post-war literay canon of European literature, naming some 70 novels -- ten for each post-war decade -- that they think belong. Iris...
View ArticlePrizes: Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature shortlist
They've narrowed down the contenders for the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa -- a pan-African prize which they try to sell a bit too hard as 'Africa's Nobel' (and whose US $20,000...
View ArticlePrize: Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist
They've announced the Shortlist of 10 for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2012. This prize rotates through four different genres from year to year, but this year it's the one that...
View ArticlePrize: Premio FIL de Literatura
They've announced that Alfredo Bryce Echenique is this year's winner of the FIL Literary Prize -- "presented in recognition for lifetime achievement in any literary genre" (and worth US...
View ArticleThirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Stuart P. Green on Theft Law in the Information Age, in Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle.
View ArticleBookselling in ... Israel
So now they've passed -- at least in a 'first reading' in the Knesset (so it's not the law of the land yet) -- a 'Law for the Protection of Literature and Authors' in Israel -- and guess what !...
View ArticleChinese literature abroad
Yet more complaining about how, as Xu Ming puts it in the Global Times, the Journey West proves difficult for Chinese literature. They just held the Beijing International Book Fair --...
View ArticleSyed Mustafa Siraj (1930-2012)
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty just had a Q & A with Bengali author Syed Mustafa Siraj in The Hindu, So says Siraj, and his collection Die, said the Tree and other stories is just out from...
View ArticlePrix Goncourt longlist
The French literary prize season now also starts to get rolling, beginning with the announcement of the première sélection pour le prix Goncourt 2012. Among the authors with books in the...
View ArticleWellcome Trust Book Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize -- which: "celebrates medicine in literature" (and is worth £25,000). Admirably: "Books published in English translation...
View ArticleSwiss Book Prize shortlist
Via love german books I see that the five-title-strong shortlist for the Swiss Book Prize has been announced. This is, of course, the German Swiss book prize, which apparently ignores...
View ArticleInternational Literature Festival Berlin
The International Literature Festival Berlin runs through 16 September. With its impressive list of participants there's a lot that's of interest there.
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