Me and You review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Niccolò Ammaniti's Me and You -- which is also the basis for the new Bernardo Bertolucci movie. The book got limited but...
View ArticleSzécsi Noémi Q&A
At hlo Ágnes Orzóy offers "I like being an outsider". Interview with Noémi Szécsi -- the author of The Finno-Ugrian Vampire.
View ArticleTranslation in ... China
They just held the National Conference on Translation, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Translators Association of China. At China.org they have all sorts of related material,...
View Article'The Literature Prize' -- for now
For a while now there's been discussion of some Man Booker competition in Britain, and 'The Literature Prize' -- accepting submissions even from non-Commonwealth countries, as long as the books...
View ArticleHoward Goldblatt profile
At Tablet Michael Orbach profiles Mo Yan's Jewish Interpreter -- i.e. his translator, Howard Goldblatt, a.k.a. 葛浩文: During his time there he was given the Chinese name that he still goes by: Ge...
View ArticleTen Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mitsuse Ryu's Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights -- 1960s Japanese science fiction (with Plato and Jesus as two of...
View ArticleKrasznahorkai and Tóibín in conversation
Last week the London Review Bookshop featured László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín, and now at her The Book Haven weblog Cynthia Haven has a full report on the evening.
View ArticleEduardo Halfon interview
At Sampsonia Way Joshua Barnes has No Borders: An Interview with Eduardo Halfon -- the author of the recently published The Polish Boxer.
View ArticleEnglish PEN translation grants
They report that English PEN awards new grants for books in translation -- ten titles in all. A nice variety -- both of books and publishers. Highlights include translations from...
View ArticleNaguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
Yesterday -- Naguib Mahfouz's birthday -- they announced the winner of this year's Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, awarded by the American University (with, as part of the prize, AUC Press...
View ArticleReading in ... China
In China Daily they have an opinion piece finding Mo Yan's success raises questions on future of Chinese literature. Yes, it's yet another excuse to bemoan local (lack of) reading...
View ArticleP.C.Hooft-prijs 2013
They've announced that the P.C.Hooft-prijs 2013 goes to A.F.Th. van der Heijden -- not yet at the official site, last I checked (sigh, etc. ....), but see, for example, the report in De...
View ArticleDalkey Archive Press job openings
Beloved Dalkey Archive Press (yeah, there are a few Dalkey Archive Press titles under review at the complete review ...) has apparently: "begun the process of succession from the founder and...
View ArticleTo Pieces review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Henry Parland's To Pieces (on the developing of Velox paper), a nice little Swedish-Finnish (re)discovery (from ca. 1930) now...
View ArticleNigerian literature in 2012
In The Guardian (Nigeria) Anote Ajeluorou has a look at the Shape of Nigeria's literary scene 2012.
View ArticleContra Mundum Press Q & A
Via A Piece of Monologue I find The Brooklyn Rail's Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press, in Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction....
View ArticlePankaj Mishra on Mo Yan and double standards
In The Guardian Pankaj Mishra explains why Salman Rushdie should pause before condemning Mo Yan on censorship. He suggests: [Mo Yan's] writing, however, has hardly been mentioned, let...
View ArticleSwedish novel takes Finlandia Prize
There's a reasonably large (and surprisingly literarily active) Swedish-speaking (and writing) minority in Finland (indeed, the most recent addition to the complete review is a Finnish novel...
View ArticleLife Form review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Amélie Nothomb's Life Form, forthcoming from Europa editions.
View ArticleMore 2012 favorites
At the Wall Street Journal they: "asked 50 of our friends to tell us what books they enjoyed in 2012", and list the responses in Twelve Months of Reading.
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