'The future of literature is getting bleaker'
So, in Bangladesh they apparently think: "The future of literature is getting bleaker" -- or at least Rashid Askari does, as he writes about the 'Future of literature' in The Daily Star, where...
View ArticleForeign best book lists: India
The Hindu has: 'Some eminent personalities talk about the books that stood out for them this year', in Eyecatchers 2011. An ... eclectic selection.
View ArticleGilbert Adair (1944-2011)
Gilbert Adair -- whose fiction remains woefully under-appreciated and -published in the US -- has passed away; see, for example, Peter Bradshaw's Gilbert Adair: a man of letters for the cinema...
View ArticleThe Economist's best-book list
The Economist joins the books-of-the-year bandwagon with their list of 'best books of 2011', Page-turners.
View ArticlePrizes: 'Русский Букер десятилетия'
They've announced that Ложится мгла на старые ступени ('Haze Sets Upon the Old Steps'), by Alexander Chudakov, has taken the 'Русский Букер десятилетия' -- the Russian (imitation-)Booker of the...
View ArticlePlease Look After Mom review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mom -- perhaps the first real 'international bestseller' from (South) Korea (yes, it made it...
View ArticleDigital publishing in the ... Asia-Pacific
In The Philippine Star Butch Dalisay considers Where we are in digital publishing, offering a bit of an overview of the situation in a number of Asian-Pacific countries, as: There's no doubt...
View ArticleHarry Mulisch Huis
At Het Parool they have a slide-show of the great Harry Mulisch's home and workspace -- which, as they report at the Hague-based Letterkundig Museum will become their "Amsterdamse dependance"...
View ArticlePrize: ACF Translation Prize
They've announced the winner of the 2011 Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize -- and it is Damion Searls, for her not all her (on/with Robert Walser), his translation of Nobel laureate...
View Article'Favorite books of 2011' at ... Salon
Now it's Salon that has Writers choose their favorite books of 2011 -- some fifty of them.
View ArticlePoets v. Aurum
They announced the shortlist for the Poetry Book Society's T.S.Eliot Prize for Poetry on 20 October -- and on the same day introduced Aurum - the new supporter of the T.S.Eliot Prize. It took a...
View ArticleDar Merit-publisher Mohammed Hashim profile
Dar Merit-publisher Mohammed Hashim recently was awarded the German PEN Club's Hermann Kesten Prize, and at Qantara.de Stefan Weidner writes about A Father of the Revolution.
View ArticleBest books of the year in ... Malaysia ?
In the Malaysian New Straits Times Umapagan Ampikaipakan does offer Eleven for 2011, his 'best books of 2011'. Unfortunately, it's not a very (or at all) local list, and could just as well have...
View ArticleA Fortnight before the Frost review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Sigurd Hoel's 1935 novel, A Fortnight before the Frost -- which he apparently wrote while (and is apparently also in reaction to)...
View ArticleAubrey Kachingwe profile
In The Sunday Times (Blantyre) Temwani Mgunda profiles Aubrey Kachingwe: One among literary greats -- "famed for being the first Malawian writer to publish with the prestigious African Writers...
View ArticleTomas Tranströmer's Nobel lecture
This year's Nobel laureate in literature, Tomas Tranströmer, gave his Nobel lecture yesterday -- except he didn't deliver a lecture, but rather they apparently put on a show with a number of...
View ArticleForeign fiction in ... China
In China Daily Yang Guang reports that China gives its judgment on foreign literature, as they recently handed out the 21st Century Best Foreign Novel of the Year Award (21世纪年度最佳外国小说 微山湖奖)....
View ArticleNaguib Mahfouz at 100
Today would have been Naguib Mahfouz's 100th birthday. I haven't gotten to as many (additional) Mahfouz-titles as I would have liked to, but there are quite a few under review -- and...
View Article'Newsweek/Daily Beast Writers' Favorite Books'
Another collection of recommendations, as "Newsweek and Daily Beast contributors and writers pick their favorite books of the year", in Newsweek/Daily Beast Writers' Favorite Books 2011.
View ArticlePrize: Bad Sex in Fiction award
They've announced the winner of the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction award, and the ghastly-sounding Ed King by David Guterson took the prize; see also the BBC report, Bad Sex in Fiction:...
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