DSC Prize for South Asian Literature longlist
They've announced the 16-book Longlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature -- chosen from 81 entries. Apparently only two are works in translation; none of these titles are...
View ArticleBring up the Bodies takes Man Booker Prize
They've announced that Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Man Booker Prize -- which I think is an outrageous way of putting it: Bring up the Bodies won the Man Booker Prize and who cares who wrote it...
View ArticleMaruya Saiichi (1925-2012)
Very sad to hear that Maruya Saiichi (丸谷 才一) has passed away; see, for example, Witty to the end, award-winning writer Maruya dies at 87 by Chiaki Yoshimura in the Asahi Shimbun and Writer...
View ArticleMan dumps Asian Literary Prize
Here the Man Asian Literary Prize was finally getting its act together -- for years I would only call it the Man 'Asian' Literay Prize, because they didn't include many obviously Asian...
View ArticleAnna Clark on the African Writers Series
At the Los Angeles Review of Books Anna Clark writes on Exploding the Canon: On the African Writers Series. I'm a big fan of the original AWS; several of the books from it are under...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award
At Three Percent Chad Post has a post on the 2013 Best Translated Book Award: Fiction Update. I'm one of the judges for this, and I've already worked my way through a decent amount of...
View ArticleNobel disappointment: in India
I mentioned Rajvinder Singh's ... misguided campaign, 'From patience to perseverance: Nobel for India, 2013', early last month, and now Singh follows up, post-Nobel announcement, to re-state...
View ArticleNobel disappointment: among 'Harukists'
Murakami Haruki doesn't sound all that disappointed at not winning the Nobel Prize this year, despite being one of the betting favorites: When I asked him about the possibility of being awarded...
View ArticleThe Neighborhood review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gonçalo M. Tavares' The Neighborhood. I'm disappointed that this hasn't gotten much attention yet -- but then his Joseph...
View ArticleDalkey archive to ... Columbia
I would have though that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- which is, after all, where Dalkey Archive Press is currently headquartered -- would have had the inside track on the...
View ArticleMan Booker commentary
In The Guardian Jacques Testard complains that The Booker prize judges let us down, arguing Hilary Mantel didn't 'need' another prize, and that: The Booker judges had a chance to make a...
View ArticleCrossword Book Award winners
They've announced the winners of the The Economist Crossword Book Award (love the way old sponsor Vodafone still features in the URL ...) -- though as best I can tell The Economist hasn't ever...
View ArticleCashing in on and with Mo, part two
Mo and his hometown aren't the only one's cashing in on the Nobel win: the fact that Swedish Academy member and Chinese-speaking translator Göran Malmqvist might well be cashing in has raised a...
View ArticleThe 'Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone'
Sure, this is completely nuts -- but I have to admit some grudging admiration (and I wish other Nobel-winning nations would be equally fanatical: let's see that 'Elfriede Jelinek Culture...
View ArticleBrod and Kafka
I mentioned a few days ago that the whole mess left by not-up-to-the-task-literary executor Max Brod regarding quite a few remaining Franz Kafka manuscripts seems to have come to a...
View ArticleDavid Mitchell on translating Cloud Atlas for the screen
In the Wall Street Journal David Mitchell writes about Translating 'Cloud Atlas' Into the Language of Film. See also the Cloud Atlas-review at the complete review. I am curious about the...
View ArticleTranslation: Children's literature
In the McGill Reporter Eléonore Buchet-Deàk considers The ethical caveats of translating children's literature -- specifically, in her case, 'Children's books that are originally written in...
View ArticleTranslation: Saudi mega-bucks translation prize
So last week they apparently handed out the fifth Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud International Award for Translation. On paper this sounds like a hell...
View ArticleOf Africa review
Both Chinua Achebe and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka have just come out with non-fiction books about Africa, and while I haven't been able to get my hands on a copy of the Achebe yet (sigh), the...
View ArticleNicholas Shakespeare on Patrick White
Nicholas Shakespeare has apparently written the introduction to a new edition of Patrick White's classic, Voss, and in The Telegraph they print 'a version' of it, where 'Nicholas Shakespeare...
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