Nepal Literature Festival
The Nepal Literature Festival runs 20 to 23 September, and it's nice to see a local-dominated literary festival (see the list of participants). See also coverage in The Himalayan,...
View ArticleHeine-Prize for Jürgen Habermas
They've announced that Jürgen Habermas has been awarded the Heine-Preis 2012. Among recent available-in-English Habermas titles is The Crisis of the European Union; see the Polity...
View ArticlePrize: FT&GSBBotYA finalists
They've announced the six finalists for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. None of the titles are under review at the complete review.
View ArticlePrize: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
They've announced the longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2012. None of the titles are under review at the complete review, but I do expect to get to Joseph Anton by...
View ArticleArabic literature in translation
I mentioned Ibrahim Farghali's Neue Zürcher Zeitung article Die arabische Literatur hat mehr zu bieten last month, and Qisasukhra now offers a translation (from the Arabic original posted at...
View ArticleFinnegans Wake in Chinese
As Zhang Yue reports in When 'livvylong' is Chinese in the China Daily, the first volume of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake has now been translated into Chinese (as 芬尼根的守灵夜) by Dai Congrong; it's...
View ArticleAura review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Carlos Fuentes' Aura. This has some great cinematic potential: narrated in the second person, I could see it filmed...
View ArticleClaustria by Régis Jauffret
Emma Donoghue's Room was based on the notorious Josef Fritzl case (well, "I'd say it was triggered by it", Donoghue says), and earlier this year Régis Jauffret published his semi-fictional take...
View ArticleLazarus is Dead review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Richard Beard's Lazarus is Dead, now also available in the US, from Europa editions.
View ArticleLiterary festival: Форум видавців
Yet another literary festival I only hear about after the fact: in Ukraine they held Форум видавців 13 to 16 September. A.C. reports on it at The Economist's Eastern approaches weblog,...
View ArticleLiterary festival: le festival AMERICA©
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more press (and no one told me about it), but in France they're currently holding le festival AMERICA© (what's the deal with the © ?) -- celebrating "les...
View ArticleThe Economist Crossword Book Award shortlists
It's been the Hutch Crossword Book Award; it's been the Vodafone Crossword Book Award; apparently this week it's The Economist Crossword Book Award (though The Economist takes no credit and...
View ArticleUnusual second-hand translation
Monika Zgustová was born in then-still Czechoslovakia but has lived in Barcelona for decades, and has translated many books into Spanish and Catalan -- among them her own Grave cantabile,...
View ArticleBellos on Life A User's Manual
David Bellos translated Georges Perec's classic Life A User's Manual -- and chooses it for his contribution to The Independent's 'Book of a lifetime'-series. What did he see in it ?...
View ArticleNuruddin Farah profile
In The Guardian Maya Jaggi profiles Nuruddin Farah: a life in writing.
View ArticleHerbert Rosendorfer (1934-2012)
German author Herbert Rosendorfer has passed away. Dedalus has brought out several of his works in English; see their author page, or get your copy of, for example, The Architect of...
View ArticleThe Scientific Buddha review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Donald S. Lopez, jr. on The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life.
View ArticleJapanese books off Chinese shelves
In an apparent attempt to distract from the mess that is the ((not quite) scheduled) upcoming 18th National Congress of the Communist Party, China is egging on nationalist protests against...
View ArticleMurray Bail's The Voyage
There's a new Murray Bail novel out -- at least in Australia. Text is bringing out The Voyage -- see their publicity page -- and while MacLehose Press has a UK edition due out in January (see...
View ArticleIndian writing in translation
Nilanjana S. Roy's collection of literary journalism, How To Read in Indian, is due out next year, but you can already check out her list of 50 Essential Writers in Translation [via]....
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