Ghalib anniversary
Famed Urdu poet Ghalib was born 27 December 1797, but both in Pakistan and India they're complaining that the anniversary (and the poet) are being overlooked. In The News Zaib Azkaar...
View ArticleRevised weblogs links page
The Links to Literary Weblogs-page is probably one of the more useful resources at the complete review, and I've revised (and updated) it a bit, most notably (and, I hope, usefully) adding a...
View ArticleThe Art of Hearing Heartbeats review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jan-Philipp Sendker's story largely set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.
View ArticleSultan Bin Ali Al Owais award to Amin Maalouf
As the official press release has it, Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation Grants the Cultural and Scientific Achievement Award of the Twelfth Session (2010-2011) to Amin Maalouf --...
View ArticleEntertainment Weekly's worst (and best) of 2011
Everybody seems to list their best-of-the-year, but worst-lists are few and far between -- and always welcome. In Entertainment Weekly Rob Brunner now offers their Best (and Worst) Fiction of...
View ArticleUK paperback picks
I usually don't bother with filler-pieces like Nicholas Lezard's The pick of paperbacks in 2011 (in the UK) in The Guardian, but a lot of these are under review at the complete review -- and...
View ArticleReading in ... Iran
The Tehran Times has two articles looking at the reading-situation in Iran. First off, there's that old standard, the universally popular (just substitute any other country-name ...) Publishers...
View ArticleLiterature in -- and translation from -- Korea
Not only is there a new issue -- Winter/2011 -- of list: Books from Korea available online, there's also a Special Edition 2011, 'Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of LTI Korea', which includes...
View ArticleTurkish literature in translation
Today's Zaman reports that Turkish literature reaches new readers with more translations, as: The total number of translations funded by the ministry since the project began in 2005 reached 985...
View Article2011 reading in ... India
In Outlook India 'Movers, shakers and the shaken of 2011 tell Outlook about the books that helped them tide over a turbulent year', in In Between Harder Covers. The respondents include...
View ArticleDag Solstad Q and A
The Independent has a Q & A, One Minute With: Dag Solstad, novelist -- surely one of the greatest (and certainly most underappreciated) novelists writing. I like his response: I may...
View ArticleThe literary year 2011: in Australia
In The Australian Stephen Romei looks at Highs and lows of the literary year (in Australia)
View ArticleBestselling books of 2011 ... in the UK
Wonderfully, The Guardian offers Bestselling books of 2011: the top 5,000 listed, based on Nielsen Bookscan numbers. (I do note that for all the wonderful precision (the top-selling title sold...
View ArticleBooks of the year in ... China
I have no idea how they determined this one (well, "The list is based on other newspapers' book lists, and China Daily's interviews with publishers and critics", which doesn't inspire any sort...
View ArticleDie Täuschung review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Charlotte Link's thriller, Die Täuschung. Link is (and long has been) among the most successful -- sales-wise --...
View ArticleTranslations from the Arabic, 2011
Arabic Literature (in English) offers a fairly comprehensive list of translations from the Arabic in 2011, in The Contenders: Best of Arabic Literature (in English) 2011. (The other useful...
View ArticleThe literary year 2011: in Nigeria
In the Daily Sun Henry Akubuiro finds that in Nigeria 2011: A year of literary advancement -- finding: It was generally a robust year for Nigerian literature And I'm particularly pleased...
View ArticleLiterary resolutions
The Los Angeles Times' Jacket Copy weblog collects 25 literary resolutions for 2012 from 'writers, editors and publishers'. And at The New Republic Ruth Franklin offers her Literary...
View ArticleThe Harbor review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ernest Poole's 1915 novel, The Harbor. Poole was a decent writer -- the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for best novel...
View Article2012 books in: India
In the Deccan Herald Jaya B. Rose looks at 2012: Literary speaking, from a mainly Indian perspective.
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