Seduction of the Innocent review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Max Allan Collins' Seduction of the Innocent, coming out from Hard Case Crime.
View ArticleVeliki rat wins NIN-ova nagrada
Aleksandar Gatalica's Veliki rat has been named the winner of the NIN-ova nagrada/НИН-ова награда, the leading Serbian literary prize; see, for example, the report in The Balkans Daily....
View ArticleNBCC awards finalists
Yes, the National Book Critics Circle Announces Its Finalists for Publishing Year 2012 in its six categories. In addition, they announced that William Deresiewicz took the Nona A. Balakian...
View ArticleMore 2013 previews
I've already linked to quite few 2013 book preview lists (most recently here), but here are two with a higher percentage of titles-of-interest (to me -- and, since you're reading this, perhaps...
View ArticleMM9 review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Yamamoto Hiroshi's MM9.
View Article(US) National Jewish Book Awards
The (American) 2012 National Jewish Book Award Winners have been announced -- in all the many, many categories, including: 'Holocaust', 'Sephardic Culture', and 'Writing Based on Archival...
View ArticleJaipur Literature Festival preview
The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival starts next week, and in the Times of India Arunima Mazumdar previews it, in DSC JLF 2013 to focus on 'serious literature'.
View ArticlePale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Franz Werfel's Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand.
View ArticleNew Asymptote
The January 2013 issue of Asymptote is now available online, with lots of great content, from an excerpt from Amélie Nothomb's Life Form to a review of the new Mo Yan novels and a great deal...
View ArticleSaif Ghobash-Banipal Prize
The winner of the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has been announced, and Roger Allen won for his translation of A Muslim Suicide by Bensalem Himmich (beating out...
View ArticleBest-selling French novelists, 2012
An annual favorite: Le Figaro lists the top ten bestselling French novelists of 2012 -- counting sales of all their books. In 2012 the top three were: Guillaume Musso - 1,710,500 copies...
View Article2012 in ... Urdu literature
'The sun shone brightly on Urdu and its literature last year and literary circles were abuzz with a flurry of activities', writes Rauf Parekh in Dawn, in Smooth sailing for Urdu literature in...
View ArticleJapanese literary prizes
They've announced the winners of two of the leading Japanese literary prizes, the Akutagawa and the Naoki, and, as The Japan Times has it, Top literature awards split by oldest, youngest...
View ArticleJakob Arjouni (1964-2013)
Jakob Arjouni, German author of the Kemal Kayankaya-mysteries (published in English by No Exit and Melville House) has passed away; see the (German) report from his German-language publisher,...
View ArticleEKEBI shut down
Far too little is translated into English from Greek, and now one of the main sources of support for what little there is has collapsed, as EKEBI -- the National Book Centre of Greece -- has...
View ArticlePhilippe Claudel Q & A
In the Financial Times Anna Metcalfe's 'Small Talk' Q & A this week is with Philippe Claudel -- whose The Investigation is just out in the UK.
View ArticleSci-fi shortlists
The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlists for the 2012 BSFA Awards, and The Kitschies -- rewarding 'the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works...
View ArticleOn the African Writers Series
Via I learn of A.K.Kaiza's The Legacy of the African Writers Series, 50 Years On at Kwani! -- which is actually 'an extract from a longer essay' published in Transition, But Why, Father ?...
View ArticleSecond Person Singular review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Sayed Kashua's Second Person Singular.
View ArticleQ & A: Ogochukwu Promise
In Vanguard Prisca Sam-Duru has a Q & A with Ogochukwu Promise, 'the founder and coordinator of The Lumina Foundation which instituted the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa',...
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