Profile: Jurji Zaydan
At Qantara.de M. Lynx Qualey profiles historical novel-writer Jurji Zaidan (Zaydan), in Educating and Entertaining the Public. The only Zaydan title under review at the complete review...
View ArticleMarch issues of online periodicals
Among the March issues of online periodicals now available is Words without Borders' Spain's Great Untranslated-themed issue -- which also includes some 'Writing from Syria' -- and the March...
View Article'Literary' agents in ... China
In China Daily Mei Jia offers an appropriately muddled and confused article claiming Literary agents open new chapter in China. There's Nobel laureate Mo Yan announcing that: "his...
View ArticleFinnish (tiny) boom !
Via Books from Finland I learn of Lola Rogers' piece, Finnish Literature in English: A Tiny Boom at the Finnish-English Literary Translation Cooperative -- and the first thing I have to ask is...
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist
Next week the 25-title-strong longlist for the (US) Best Translated Book Award (I'm one of the judges) will be announced, and it's always fun to compare that with the (UK) Independent Foreign...
View ArticleA.B.Yehoshua on The Retrospective
In the Wall Street Journal A.B.Yehoshua introduces his new novel, The Retrospective, with The Limits of Imagination.
View Article'Translating or transcending'
In The Hindu Mariam Karim-Ahlawat finds 'Translation creates empathy and understanding between cultures, but only when we are ready to acknowledge and value the differences', in Translating or...
View ArticleThe Tuner of Silences review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mia Couto's The Tuner of Silences.
View ArticleSpring Quarterly Conversation
The Spring, 2013 issue of the Quarterly Conversation is now available online, with lots of pieces of interest.
View ArticleLauren Beukes profile
In the Mail & Guardian Ashraf Jamal profiles Lauren Beukes: At the forefront of the global invasion. Zoo City is under review at the complete review, and I'm very much looking...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Uganda
In The Independent (Uganda) Yusuf Serunkuma presents "the best titles -- published not only in Uganda, but also anywhere, by a Ugandan as the best books of the year 2012", in One man's reading...
View ArticleThe Child review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pascale Kramer's The Child.
View ArticleThe VIDA numbers
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts have now published The Count 2012, tallying how many (or rather, how few) reviews/bylines/authors reviewed in a variety of prominent publications were female. As in...
View ArticleWindham Campbell Prizes announced
I mentioned being intrigued by the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes last week, and now they've announced the nine recipients of the prize. (As noted last time, they still...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award longlist
The twenty-five title strong longlist for the Best Translated Book Award has now been announced. The longlisted titles are: Atlas by Dung Kai-Cheung Autoportrait by Edouard Levé...
View ArticleMetro review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Story of Cairo by Magdy El Shafee, his comic-book, Metro.
View ArticleNobel Prize in Literature 2013 - the first clues
At his Att vara ständig weblog Swedish Academy point-man Peter Englund offers a few tiny clues about Årets långa lista -- this year's longlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature. For one,...
View ArticleThree percent ? 4.59% ? Not so fast ...
As longtime readers may have noticed, I essentially never refer to the 'statistic' that only three per cent of all fiction published in the US is translated; I've heard the anecdotal evidence,...
View ArticleThe Scream review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Laurent Graff's The Scream -- and, yes, the Munch painting does figure in it.
View ArticleSchwob.nl
At English PEN Emma Cleaves reports that Schwob project to seek out 'the truffles of world literature', as: "European Union awards the Schwob.nl project €200,000 to fund a European portal for...
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