Prize: Holberg Prize
They've announced that Bruno Latour has won the 2013 Holberg Prize -- worth NOK 4.5 million (US$790,000). Sorry, none of his work is under review at the complete review.
View ArticlePrize: 'The Folio Prize'
It's been in the works for a while, known pre-sponsor simply as the 'Literature Prize', but now all has been revealed, and with The Folio Society providing the cash (hey ! folks who actually...
View ArticleThe Wild Geese review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mori Ogai's century-old classic, The Wild Geese.
View ArticleLatvian literature abroad
Estonian Public Broadcasting reports that Few Latvian Literary Works Make It to Estonian Readers -- but it doesn't seem to be solely an Estonian issue. (So, for example, there are translations...
View ArticlePreis der Leipziger Buchmesse
The Leipzig Book Fair runs through the 17th, and an early highlight is the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair -- which is actually three prizes, for fiction, non, and translation. The...
View ArticleMan Asian Literary Prize
They've announced that Tan Twan Eng scoops Asia's top literary prize, as his novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, has been named the ultimate winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize -- at least...
View ArticleThe Lying Year review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrei Gelasimov's The Lying Year. This is another AmazonCrossing title -- their second by this Russian author, with two...
View ArticleGerbrand Bakker Q & A
Winstonsdad's Blog has a Gerbrand Bakker interview -- a Q & A with the author of The Twin and The Detour (now published in the US as Ten White Geese). I don't know that Dutch...
View ArticleThe new Murakami novel !
色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年. That's the title of the forthcoming new Murakami Haruki novel, due out in Japan (and, yes, just in Japanese) next month -- see the Bungei publicity page or...
View ArticleHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mohsin Hamid's new novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. (There are now eleven books under review at the complete...
View ArticleLibris Literatuur Prijs shortlist
I missed this last week, but they've announced the shortlist for the Libris Literatuur Prijs -- one of the leading Dutch literary prizes (and worth a decent €50,000). It includes books by Arnon...
View ArticlePublishing in ... India
In Words' worth in the Times of India Dibyajyoti Chaudhuri finds: With more money flowing in, the Indian publishing scene is being buffeted by winds of change. From marketing to packaging and...
View ArticleThe Conscript review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu, The Conscript. This novel -- written in 1927, and first published...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Q & A
At hlo they have a translation of a Q & A Eni Rostás and Dóra Szekeres had with Jonathan Franzen. I'm not sure whether he was just sucking up, or whether he has a particularly odd...
View ArticleBadfellas review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tonino Benacquista's Badfellas -- published in the UK by Bitter Lemon in 2010, and coming out as Malavita from Penguin in the US...
View ArticleRichard Nash 'On the business of literature'
The Spring 2013 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review will apparently include 'a portfolio focused on the business of literature', and they already now print Richard Nash's contribution, an...
View ArticleAmish Tripathi Q & As
Amish Tripathi's million-dollar book deal hasn't made that many waves outside India yet, but it's a pretty big deal. Publisher Westland's big bet -- they can afford it; they're: "a subsidiary...
View ArticleSofi Oksanen gets Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize
As, for example, YLE reports, Now Swedish Academy's turn to honour author Oksanen as the Nobel Prize-awarding body has awarded the Purge-author the 'mini-/Scandinavian'-Nobel; see also the...
View ArticleThe Fall of the Stone City review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ismail Kadare's recent novel, The Fall of the Stone City.
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