'Best of the James Tait Black'
So Eng;land's oldest literary prize is holding a Best of the James Tait Black, which: "celebrates the fiction winners over the past 93 years", and chooses one from a shortlist of six previous...
View ArticlePromoting ... Taiwanese literature abroad
Via I learn of Grace Kuo's article in Taiwan Today, that MOC to promote Taiwan literature globally, as: ROC Culture Minister Lung Ying-tai said Oct. 15 that her agency is mulling a publication...
View ArticleLenin's Kisses review
Sure, I should really be covering more of Mo Yan's work (and I will), but the most recent addition to the complete review is my review of another prominent Chinese author's just-out-in-English...
View ArticleAugust Prize shortlist
The Swedish Augustpriset has announced the shortlists in the three categories awards are given in -- and there have been quite a few raised eyebrows about the fact that Jag är Zlatan...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Israel
At Publishing Perspectives Daniel Kalder has a useful piece on Publishing in Israel: A Snapshot Overview. Some good statistics -- and interesting also to learn that: "We waited a long...
View ArticleMore Mo Yan: Malmqvist defends Mo
A defensive Göran Malmqvist -- Sweidsh Academy member, Chinese speaker, and, suddenly, Mo Yan translator ... -- happens to find himself in China shortly after the Nobel announcement, and has...
View ArticleMore Mo Yan: Mo museum
Who knew ? -- but apparently there's been a Mo Yan Museum for a while now. As Xu Ming reports in the Global Times, Mo Yan Literature Museum housed in middle school, as: The four-story building,...
View ArticleMore Mo Yan: Mo book sales
No word yet on the impact of the Nobel win on Mo Yan's book sales abroad (though his Amazon.com 'Author Rank' of 23 in the 'Literary' category, and 28 in the 'Literary Fiction' category look...
View ArticlePublishing losses
It's always fascinating to learn what (and how much ...) publishers lose on specific titles, and at The Huffington Post they have a brief piece about TASCHEN's Biggest Losers....
View ArticleFiction from ... China
At Bloomberg Businessweek Christina Larson reports that Chinese Fiction is Hot. She doesn't make a very impressive case for Chinese fiction's 'hotness', but at least there are some...
View ArticleTavares' 'Kingdom' novels
At The New Yorker's Page-Turner weblog Mark O'Connell considers Gonçalo M. Tavares' 'Kingdom' novels, in Look at Your Hands -- discussing Joseph Walser's Machine, Jerusalem, and Learning to...
View ArticleM-Net Literary Awards
They announced the winners of the South African M-Net Literary Awards a few days ago -- noteworthy because they award prizes for books in five language categories: English, Afrikaans Sesotho,...
View ArticleMisunderstanding Financial Crises review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gary B. Gorton's Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming.
View ArticleNew issue of list
The fall issue of list: Books from Korea is now available online; it includes a special section on 'E-books in Korea'.
View ArticleThe PETRA Recommendations
Literalab recently discussed the PETRA -- European Platform for Literary Translation -- presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and now 'The PETRA Recommendations' -- Towards New Conditions...
View ArticleLa Petite review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Memoir by Michèle Halberstadt, La Petite.
View ArticleE-Books in ... Japan
In Bloomberg Businessweek Bruce Einhorn thinks E-Books Finally Get Traction in Japan -- and with reports that Amazon launches Japanese-language Kindle ("as it looks to break into Japan's...
View ArticleShortlists: Irish Book Awards
They've announced the shortlists for the many categories of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards.
View ArticleShortlist: Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
They've announced the shortlist for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize -- though not, last I checked, at the official site (or anywhere else, as best I can tell). The shortlisted titles...
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize judges
They've announced the judging panel for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and it consists of Turkish-and-English writing Elif Şafak/Shafak, translator Frank Wynne, The Independent's...
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