IMPAC longlist
They're announcing the longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award today; look for it at the new official site (though neither much of the site nor any of the longlist was...
View ArticleSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
They've announced that the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction goes to Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis -- though they haven't yet announced...
View ArticleSwiss Book Prize
As love german books notes, they've announced that the Swiss Book Prize (which is, of course, merely the Swiss German Book Prize -- French, Italian, etc. works not welcome) has gone to the...
View ArticleMore on the IMPAC longlist
So they announced the longlist for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award yesterday: 154 books, including 43 by American authors and 42 translated out of 19 different languages (but...
View ArticleWoes of the True Policeman review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Roberto Bolaño's posthumous Woes of the True Policeman, just out in English in the US.
View ArticlePrizes: GGs
They've announced the winners of the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award winners, one each in English and French in seven different categories. Much as I like the abbreviation for...
View ArticlePrize: European Prize for Literature to Vladimir Makanin
They've announced that Vladimir Makanin has been awarded the 2012 European Prize for Literature (not to be confused with the multi-author European Union Prize for Literature ...)....
View ArticleThe Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Antonio Tabucchi's The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico, now out in a stand-alone edition from Archipelago.
View ArticlePublishing in ... China
Yet another article that finds: 'Mo Yan's Nobel prize has sparked a global wave of interest in Chinese literature and the foreign book market is hungry for China-themed publications', as Mei...
View Article(American) National Book Awards
Last night they announced the winners of the (American) National Book Awards (not to be confused with the (Specsavers) National Book Awards -- which are, after all, in an entirely different...
View ArticleThe Diesel review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of United Arab Emirates poet Thani Al-Suwaidi's 1994 novella, The Diesel, now available in English from Antibookclub.
View ArticleDutch-Turkish literary exchanges
In Hürriyet Daily News Ali Kayalar reports that Right time for Dutch books in Istanbul, writers' agency says, describing some of the cross-cultural exchange between the two countries.
View ArticleBulgarian literature abroad
At Publishing Perspectives Daniel Kalder writes about Fighting to Build "Brand Bulgaria" in Literature as he profiles the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation -- unusual, as he notes, in being: "a...
View ArticleThe Briefcase review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kawakami Hiromi's The Briefcase.
View ArticleOrhan Pamuk Q & A
This week's 'Small Talk' Q & A by Anna Metcalfe in the Financial Times is with Orhan Pamuk.
View ArticleIan Hamilton Finlay profile
In The Guardian James Campbell 'finds clarity and lyricism in the work of a difficult artist', in Ian Hamilton Finlay: the concrete poet as avant gardener. Among the first used books I...
View ArticleRoberto Calasso profile
In The Independent Boyd Tonkin profiles the Curator of miracles in Milan: How Roberto Calasso mastered the art of publishing. As if I weren't made jealous enough by hearing about: "his...
View ArticlePatrick White Literary Award
Patrick White admirably used his Nobel winnings to endow the Patrick White Literary Award, and as Susan Wyndham reports in Religion shapes winner's prose in the Sydney Morning Herald Amanda...
View ArticleAlasdair Gray
The great Alasdair Gray has just brought out Every Short Story 1951-2012 (see the Canongate publicity page, or get your copy from Amazon.co.uk; you can also get the Kindle version in the US,...
View ArticleMaidenhair review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair, now available in English from Open Letter.
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