Alan Bennett profile
In The Guardian Michael Billington profiles Alan Bennett: a quiet radical. Bennett has a new play coming out -- People, at the National Theatre. Quite a few Bennett titles are...
View ArticleWole Soyinka Q & A
In The Telegraph they have an edited transcript of Peter Godwin's Q & A with Wole Soyinka, from Hay Xalapa.
View ArticleFinnegan's List 2013
Via literalab I learn that the European Society of Authors announced their Finnegan's List 2013 (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This is a list that a committee of...
View ArticleThe Nightmare review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Lars Kepler's The Nightmare.
View ArticleNew issue of Swedish Book Review
The new issue -- 2012:2 -- of the Swedish Book Review is now (partially) available online. It's dedicated to August Strindberg, and much of the interesting content is freely available -- though...
View ArticleIndian Science Fiction
At Jeff VanderMeer's Ecstatic Days Vandana Singh goes In Search of Indian Science Fiction: A Conversation with Anil Menon, offering a nice overview of the history and current situation, both in...
View ArticleRosalind Harvey Q & A
And Other Stories brought out Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos in the UK last year, and now Farrar, Straus and Giroux have picked it up in the US. They now have a Q & A...
View ArticleThe Finno-Ugrian Vampire review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Szécsi Noémi's The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, just out from new publisher Stork Press in the UK, and forthcoming from Marion Boyars in...
View ArticleALTA translation panel report
At her Translationista weblog Susan Bernofsky has an interesting report on the PEN Translation Committee-sponsored panel at this year's ALTA conference, Recruiting for the Reviewer Hall of...
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Joseph Anton covers
I'm fascinated by how the US, French, and German covers of Salman Rushdie's new memoir, Joseph Anton, all use the same basic design -- but differ in the relative type-size and prominence of...
View ArticleLiao Yiwu picks up Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Liao Yiwu picked up the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade yesterday; I can't find the full speech (delivered in Chinese) online yet, but Focus does have (juicy) excerpts (in...
View ArticleKafka manuscripts (probably) to National Library of Israel
Almost half a century after Max Brod died and, in one last (of many ...) terrible missteps in his role as Kafka's literary executor, Brod's Franz Kafka manuscripts wound up in secretive,...
View Article172 Hours on the Moon review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of another lunar-focused novel by Johan Harstad -- this time for a younger audience: 172 Hours on the Moon. What really...
View ArticleWriting in ... Nepal
In Himal Weena Pun speaks to 'noted Nepali literary critic Khagendra Sangroula', in Changing literature, changing country. Among the interesting observations Sangroula makes: things are...
View ArticleNew issue of Asymptote
The October issue of Asymptote is now available online -- and it's packed with great stuff, beginning with local favorite Arnon Grunberg (e.g. Tirza !) on another local favorite, J.M.Coetzee...
View ArticleSpanish-language literary prize: Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes
They'll only hand it over at a ceremony on 11 November, but they've announced that Mario Vargas Llosa is the winner of the inaugural Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes -- a US$250,000 prize...
View ArticleSpanish-language literary prize: Premio Planeta
Sure, they're announcing that Man Booker Prize today -- but the big money was handed out yesterday, as they announced the winner of the Premio Planeta, the richest single-book prize going, with...
View ArticleRu review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kim Thúy's Ru.
View ArticleMore Mo
I continue to update the Mo Yan information in my earlier post, but a few of the latest post-Nobel reactions are worth mentioning separately, too: - Benjamin Carlson reports that 'A...
View ArticleArticle 8
Exciting news about the 2011 winner of the ACF Translation Prize, Damion Searls' translation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's Her Not All Her will be published as Cahier 18 in that great...
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