Prizes: AKO Literatuurprijs
They've announced that Post Mortem by Peter Terrin has been awarded the 2012 AKO Literatuurprijs, a leading Dutch literary prize (with the winner receiving €50,000). (Bonus points, too, for the...
View ArticleThe 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of his Window and Disappeared review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jonas Jonasson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of his Window and Disappeared. I usually find fiction that uses real...
View ArticleMeasuring the World movie
So they've made a movie out of the mega-bestselling German novel, Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann, which came out in Germany last week. It's in 3D, for some reason, and looks ......
View Articleliterature live !
Tata literature live ! - The Mumbai LitFest runs through 4 November, with a pretty solid list of authors in attendance. In The Indian Express Vidya Prabhu previews the event, in Meet the...
View ArticleThe High Life review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jean-Pierre Martinet's The High Life -- a nice little pocket-sized booklet with which Wakefield Press introduces the author to...
View ArticleWriting in ... Singapore
The Singapore Writers Festival runs through 11 November, and in Singapore slang in The Age Susan Wyndham wonders: How does a population of less than 6 million with four languages -- English,...
View ArticleNovember issues
Among November issues of online-periodicals now available are: - The November issue of Words without Borders, Banned Chinese Writers -- which includes Liao Yiwu's Peace Prize of the...
View ArticleNigeria Prize for Literature
As, for example, Nehru Odeh reports in PM News, the Nigeria Prize for Literature has gone to Chika Unigwe's novel -- published in the UK as On Black Sisters' Street and in the US...
View Article2012 Translation Database
For all the year-end 'best of the year' and year-beginning 'books to look forward to' lists the one I find by far the most useful is the Translation Database at Three Percent, listing (pretty...
View ArticleJeanette Winterson and A.M.Homes in conversation
The Guardian has Jeanette Winterson in conversation with A.M.Homes. "We judge the content of what men and women write very differently" maintains Homes; who is this we wonder I ......
View ArticleIrrawaddy Literary Festival
Even Bhutan has already held a literary festival, and now, in another sign of Burma opening up, they've announced: "the first ever English language literary festival in Burma / Myanmar", the...
View ArticleWomen writers in ... Russia
In Russia Beyond the Headlines Phoebe Taplin reports that: 'Female authors regularly outsell their male colleagues, and are gaining increasing international recognition', in Women conquer...
View ArticleAna María Shua reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two newly-translated Ana María Shua: Her novel, The Weight of Temptation A new selection of her microfiction, Without a Net
View ArticleFT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
They've announced that Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll has won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. See the Penguin...
View ArticleFuentes does Nietzsche
I hope Dalkey is on top of this one: Alfaguara is bringing out Carlos Fuentes' Federico en su balcón (see their publicity page). Never mind the blurb-praise from local favourites Sergio Ramírez...
View ArticleGirish Karnad takes on Naipaul
Authors taking down other authors is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, and so literature live ! must be thrilled that Girish Karnad came out swinging -- even if it was against that softest of all...
View ArticleNSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlists
After a six-month delay -- during which there was a re-evaluation of the awards themselves, and a change in administration -- they've announced the shortlists for the many NSW Premier's...
View ArticleHan Suyin (1917-2012)
Not an author you'll find books by under review hereabouts, but one of hers was the inspiration behind the 1955 film, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, and she achieved a certain popularity --...
View ArticleTears in Rain review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Rosa Montero's Tears in Rain. This is an AmazonCrossing book and, as Chad Post recently noted in tallying up the number of...
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