Fiction France
The new edition of the twice-a-year publication Fiction France (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) is out -- "A selection of French contemporary fiction to be read and translated". With...
View ArticleMessud-Wood profile
In New York Boris Kachka is At Home With Claire Messud and James Wood, the First Couple of American Fiction, in a very puffy piece.
View ArticleTehran International Book Fair
They're getting ready for the Tehran International Book Fair, which runs 1 through 11 May 2013 -- and they're hoping for good things: IBNA reports that Firooz Zenozi Jalali: believes that...
View ArticleJohn Banville wins Austrian State Prize for European Literature
They've announced that John Banville erhält den Österreichischen Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur 2013, the €25,000 Austrian State Prize for European Literature that he'll pick up at the...
View ArticleJavier Marías awarded Premio Formentor
They've announced that Javier Marías has been awarded the 2013 Premio Formentor de las Letras -- the prestigious but long dormant (1968-2010) and recently revived (at €50,000) -- literary...
View ArticleLe voyage d'hiver review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Amélie Nothomb's Le voyage d'hiver. I'm trying to fill in the few remaining not-yet-reviewed (or translated ...) Nothomb...
View ArticleMurakami reactions
Murakami Haruki's recently published 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 has done pretty well -- topping a million sold by now, which is impressive in a moribund Japanese market that, as reported in Mystery,...
View ArticlePrize: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
They've announced that this year's winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize -- "awarded each spring to honor an outstanding literary translation from German into English published...
View ArticlePrize: International Prize for Arabic Fiction
They've announced that ساق البامبو ['The Bamboo Stalk'] by Saud Alsanousi has been awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction; see also, for example, M. Lynx Qualey's coverage at her...
View ArticleNew Estonian Literary Magazine
The Spring 2013 issue (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) of the Estonian Literary Magazine is now available in full online. The usual national-book-office type stuff, but a nice variety of...
View ArticleProspect's World Thinkers 2013
An internet poll asking who the world's leading thinkers are sounds like the ultimate in dubious exercises, but that's what Prospect did, and "more than 10,000 votes from over 100 countries"...
View ArticleReading in ... Bulgaria
At Radio Bulgaria Diana Hristakieva considers What and how much do Bulgarians read ? as some numbers are now in -- including that: In 2011 alone, the National Statistical Institute reports,...
View ArticleElectronic literature
Via Illya Szilak's Books That Nobody Reads: E-lit at the Library of Congress at The Huffington Post -- itself worth a look -- I find the Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms-site, put...
View ArticlePrize-winning workshop
Well, this certainly suggests a wrong point of emphasis: Abuja Writers' Forum provides recipe for literary laurels reports Balarabe Oshiafi in the Nigerian Tribune, as apparently: It is not...
View ArticleAndrei Kurkov profile
At Publishing Perspectives Edward Nawotka profiles Death and the Penguin-author Ukraine's Andrei Kurkov on Self-publishing and Surrealism.
View ArticleMonsieur Teste à l'école
Paul Valéry's 'Monsieur Teste' is one of the great literary inventions -- see, for example, the Princeton University Press publicity page for their volume of Teste-work, or get your copy at...
View Article2x new Review of Contemporary Fiction
Two new issues of the Review of Contemporary Fiction are now available online -- not the bulk of the issues, but at least the always welcome review-sections: Gert Jonke's "Individual and...
View ArticleMy Struggle: Book Two (A Man in Love) review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Book Two, published in the UK as A Man in Love. An endless amount to say about this...
View ArticleBookselling in ... Libya
In the Daily Star Ghaith Shennib reports that Libyans find old treasures at Tripoli book sale, Always good to see this kind of literary enthusiasm: After a busy first day, they had to...
View ArticleMay-June issue of World Literature Today
The May-June issue of World Literature Today is now available, with a decent selection of material also freely accessible online -- most significantly and importantly the entire review section,...
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