Əkrəm Əylisli's Daş yuxular
Nationalism rears its always ugly head again, as Azerbaijani author Əkrəm Əylisli (Akram Aylisli) published a novel -- Daş yuxular ('Stone Dreams') -- that some locals have taken (great)...
View ArticleTo Each his Stranger review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ajneya (Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan's) 1961 Hindi novel, To Each his Stranger. I recently bought this, used (for...
View ArticleWriting in ... India
The Hindustan Times has the IANS report, Indian-language literature is thriving, and apparently: Literature in Indian languages is vibrant, thriving and more interlinked than is evident, say...
View ArticleHatchet Job of the Year Award
The Hatchet Job of the Year Award -- awarded for: "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months" -- has been announced (though not at the official site, last I...
View ArticleWriting in ... Burma
They recently held the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, and the post-mortems and post-festival reflections keep coming, as now in The Myanmar Times Zon Pann Pwint finds Lit fest step in right...
View ArticleMister Blue review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jacques Poulin's Mister Blue, which Archipelago Books brought out a while back.
View ArticleScotiabank Giller Prize judges
They've announced that Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan, and Jonathan Lethem will be judging this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize -- sounds like a pretty decent panel.
View ArticleCaine Prize judging panel
They've announced the 2013 Caine Prize judging panel -- and, at the same time, also revealed that: This year 96 qualifying stories have been submitted to the judges from 16 African countries....
View ArticleRonald Dworkin (1931-2013)
Legal scholar and philosopher Ronald Dworkin has passed away; see, for example, Godfrey Hodgson's obituary in The Guardian, and see some of his pieces at The New York Review of Books, for which...
View ArticleHarvard University Press centennial
Harvard University Press is celebrating its centennial, and in Harvard Magazine Christopher Reed profiles the venerable press, in As Many Books as Possible Short of Bankruptcy (which sounds...
View ArticleSuhrkamp continuance
I mentioned the turmoil at leading German literary publishing house Suhrkamp a couple of months ago, and the case came to court of Wednesday. The verdict ? A continuance, until...
View ArticleA Very Profitable War review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Didier Daeninckx's A Very Profitable War, now out in the US from Melville House. I think it's great that they've brought...
View ArticlePewas Perghyryn Lyenyeth Kernewek
They've announced the Michael Palmer Award for Cornish Language Literature, and: The closing date for entries is 1st October 2013 and any work of more than 2000 words written or published...
View ArticleTranslation success
In The Bookseller Felicity Wood has a Business profile: Hesperus Press -- and reports that signing Jonas Jonasson's The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared worked...
View ArticleTranslation efforts
At Publishing Perspectives Joanna Zgadzaj and Nancy Roberts of Stork Press make the argument for Books in Translation: It's Time for Others to Join the Fight. They report that, for...
View ArticleMcEwan on believing in fiction
In The Guardian they have Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters -- and how it is restored (also sold to and made available at The New Republic, where it's more succinctly titled: When I...
View ArticleRomanian Book Review
I'm looking forward to seeing this: they've announced that Cultural Institute launches English-language Romanian literary review for worldwide audiences, as the: "Romanian Book Review will be...
View ArticleThe Rainbow Troops review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrea Hirata's Indonesian bestseller, The Rainbow Troops. This 2005 novel has actually been available in English for...
View Articleפרסספירלספרות
They've announced that מוקס נוקס, by Shimon Adaf has won this year's Sapir Prize for Literature (yes, it's run by a lottery -- insert your own joke); see, for example, the Haaretz report,...
View ArticleThe Hindu Literary Prize
They've announced that The Hindu Literary Prize goes to Jerry Pinto -- meaning that his novel, Em and the Big Hoom, won. See also the Aleph Book Co. publicity page -- and while your best...
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