Q&A-author Q&A
In the Bangkok Post Parisa Pichitmarn has a Q&A with Q&A- (now better-known as Slumdog Millionaire-)author Vikas Swarup. Interesting titbit: despite his literary succcess, Vikas...
View ArticleBurmese National Literary Awards
The winners of the Burmese National Literary Awards (for books published in 2011) have been announced (with the actual awards ceremony to follow 14 December), but as Zon Pann Pwint notes in The...
View ArticleMan Asian Literary Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize -- with several of the titles under review at the complete review: The Briefcase, by Kawakami Hiromi The Garden of Evening...
View Article'Bad Sex' award
The Literary Review announced the winner of its 'Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2012' (though not yet at the official site, last I checked ...); see, for example, Maev Kennedy's report in The...
View ArticleForeign writers in ... China
Along with the 'Chinese Writers Rich List' (see my previous mention) they also compile a list of the foreign authors who earned the most in China in 2012; see the Chinese list of the top 15...
View ArticleThe Guard review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of recent AKO Literatuurprijs-winning author Peter Terrin's The Guard.
View ArticleFestivalul Internaţional de Literatură Bucureşti
The Festivalul Internaţional de Literatură Bucureşti runs through the 8th, with several British authors in attendance.
View Article'Russian Booker'
They've announced the winner of the Русский Букер -- yes, the 'Russian Booker' -- and it went to Andrey Dmitriev (Андрей Дмитриев), for Крестьянин и тинейджер; see, for example, The Voice of...
View ArticleThe Invisible City review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Emili Rosales' The Invisible City, now also out in a US edition.
View ArticleBest of the James Tait Black Prizes
They've apparently announced the Best of the the James Tait Black Prizes -- "the best novel to have won the prize since it was first awarded in 1919" -- though not yet at the official site,...
View ArticleIPAF longlist
They've announced the longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction -- sixteen titles selected from 133 entries from 15 countries. Disappointingly, I can't find any list of the...
View ArticleMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.
View ArticleMore favorite reads
Granta has some folks -- including TLS editor and Man Booker Prize chair of judges Peter Stothard -- report on the Books I Read this Year. Meanwhile, at Bloomberg Simon Kennedy 'asked...
View ArticleMo Yan's Nobel lecture
Mo Yan's trip to Sweden to pick up his Nobel Prize did not begin well: his answers at a press conference on Thursday got him exactly the kind of coverage he (and the Chinese authorities) didn't...
View ArticleLife on Hold review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Saudi author Fahd al-Atiq's Life on Hold, now out from American University in Cairo Press.
View ArticleAustralian 2012 favorites
In The Age they have 'authors and critics deliver their favourite page-turners of 2012', in an Australian version of The year in books.
View ArticleInternational translation controversy !
Is 'caramel' an adequate or acceptable substitute for 'chanterelle' (as in the mushroom) ? And, if not, is that reason enough to start an international controversy ? Yes, the good folks...
View ArticleSense review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Arslan Khasavov's Sense, a volume of Glas' 'New Russian Writing'.
View Article'British Literature in the Hungarian Cultural Memory'
I recently mentioned Zsolt Czigányik's piece on censorship in the Kádár era, and now you can read that and much more at this British Literature in the Hungarian Cultural Memory site. Of...
View ArticleReading in ... Pakistan
The Karachi International Book Fair runs through today, and in The Express Tribune they take that as a starting point for an incredibly depressing look at Reading books in Pakistan, even as:...
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