Burmese National Literary Awards
As Zon Pann Pwint reports in The Myanmar Times, in Burma National Literary Awards announced. The 'Translation (Aesthetic)' award went to Yekantha Kyataingayec for his translation of...
View ArticleJenny Diski on the state of publishing
In the new issue of the London Review of Books Jenny Diski looks at the state of publishing in her column, Short Cuts --and finds: The state of publishing -- in particular of the kind of...
View ArticleMahfouz as seismograph
Qantara.de offers an English translation of Hartmut Fähndrich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung article on 'The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Naguib Mahfouz', The Egyptian Seismograph. (See...
View ArticleBest books of 2011: San Francisco Chronicle
In the San Francisco Chronicle John McMurtrie presents Top 10 books of 2011. (Out-of-the-loop warning: I haven't seen or read a one of these. Sometimes I really wonder where I've been...
View ArticleBest books of 2011: The Millions' 'A Year in Reading'
Among the most ambitious 'best of the year' offerings every year is The Millions' 'A Year in Reading'; unfortunately, it's a day-by-day affair, which I have little patience for, so I wait until...
View ArticleBest books: ... in Scotland ... in 1911
In a fun variation on the best-books-of-the-year compilations, Stuart Kelly looks (in some depth) at 'what The Scotsman said about books of a century ago', in 100 years on: The best books of...
View ArticleBest books: ... in Egypt
In the Egypt Independent M. Lynx Qualey and Ola El-Saket have 11 authors choose their favorite books of 2011. And while some of the others might agree, Youssef Rakha is pretty forward in...
View ArticleThe Map and the Territory review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Michel Houellebecq's prix Goncourt-winning The Map and the Territory, now finally coming -- right at the start of the new year --...
View Article'What makes one a Filipino Writer ?'
In the Philippine Daily Inquirer Emil Guillermo wonders What makes one a Filipino Writer ? -- his thoughts occasioned by the recent Filipino American International Book Festival.
View ArticleQ and A with Václav Havel's literary agent
At Radio Prague Jan Richter has a Q & A with the recently deceased Václav Havel's literary agent Jitka Sloupová on his plays, their foreign productions and his image as an author.
View ArticleUK book folk of the year ?
In The Independent Liz Thomson looks at Shelf life in hard times: The book folk who wrote glorious chapters in 2011 (in the UK, that is).
View ArticleMu Xin (1927-2011)
I haven't seen a proper obituary yet, but Chinese author Mu Xin (木心; actually 孙璞) has passed away; see, for example, Mourning Mr. Mu Xin at Beijing Shots. New Directions recently brought...
View Article'2012 publishing predictions'
At FutureBook Sam Missingham collects an interesting variety of '2012 publishing predictions' from a quite a few people in all aspects of the field -- see parts one and two.
View ArticleBest books of 2011: Los mejores 25 libros ... in Spain
Finally, a solid Spanish entry among the 'best of the year'-lists, as Winston Manrique Sabogal reports on Los mejores 25 libros de 2011 as voted on by 57 writers and critics at El País'...
View ArticleBest books list: Rue89 (France)
Another French list of best books/last second Christmas recommendations, as Rue89 offers La sélection de Rue89 des meilleurs livres à (s')offrir pour Noël; at least some interesting choices.
View ArticleBest books of 2011: The New Republic
The New Republic offers TNR Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2011 -- unfortunately obnoxiously presented in the gallery/one-choice-per-page format.
View ArticleBest books list: The Japan Times
The Japan Times has a couple of contributors offer their 'Best Books of 2011'; start with Steve Finbow and scroll down for links to the others.
View ArticleAll Yours review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Claudia Piñeiro's noir, All Yours.
View ArticleBest books 2011 in ... Germany
The 'book of the year lists' that are so popular in the US and UK really don't seem to have caught on elsewhere -- they remain relatively few and far between. Finally, there's a German...
View ArticleBest books of 2011: January Magazine
January Magazine presents their Best of 2011 lists -- many pages for many categories, though of course fiction is really the only one that matters.
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