Italo Svevo Preis to Giwi Margwelaschwili
The Italo Svevo Preis is, somewhat surprisingly, a German-language prize. Worth €15,000, until recently its winner was apparently decided by a single juror; this year it was apparently a...
View ArticleBuenos Aires Book Fair
La Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires started a few days ago -- with a keynote speech on censorship by J.M.Coetzee (which I hope will available somewhere soon). Unlike the...
View ArticleThe Girl with the Golden Parasol review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Uday Prakash's The Girl with the Golden Parasol, a 2001 Hindi novel that Penguin Books India brought out in translation in 2008...
View ArticleThird Congress of Caribbean Writers
They recently held the Third Congress of Caribbean Writers, and in The Gleaner they have a report, noting also that Haitian-American Writer Gets Prestigious Caribbean Literature Award, as...
View ArticleLiterary canonization
In the Daily Nebraskan Jordan Bates argues the rather obvious, that Literary canons exclude works no matter how selective canon makers are. Still, always a useful reminder, that...
View ArticleWhere There's Love, There's Hate review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo's Where There's Love, There's Hate, a 1946 novel by the husband-and-wife team now...
View ArticleWinding down the NYTBR ?
As I've noted, The New York Times Book Review now has a new editor, Pamela Paul having replaced Sam Tanenhaus. It's still early days, but things certainly don't look much different (see also my...
View ArticleMiles Franklin Literary Award shortlist
Recently they inaugurated a new Australian literary prize, The Stella Prize, "celebrating Australian women's writing" -- a women-only prize like that British...
View ArticleAll Those Things We Never Said review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Marc Levy's All Those Things We Never Said. Year in, year out, Levy is one of the bestselling novelists in France (and...
View ArticleSusan Bernofsky Q & A(s)
Shaun Randol interviewed translator-from-the-German Susan Bernofsky, and the conversation is divided up between Words without Borders -- his Interview with Susan Bernofsky -- and The Mantle,...
View ArticleWhile the Women are Sleeping review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Javier Marías' While the Women are Sleeping. I'm pretty much just trying to fill in some of the blanks here while I wait...
View ArticleLibrary of America's best-selling titles
The Library of America updates it's look at The Library of America's Best-Selling Titles. Always interesting to see -- and not much change from two years ago (but no updated actual...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award ceremony
Tomorrow (Friday) at 17:30 the winner of the Best Translated Book Award will be named; see Chad Post's explanation of the where and when. I expect to be there; hope to see you there as...
View ArticleMay online issues
May issues of several publications are now available online: Words without Borders' May 2013: North Korean Defectors issue -- with a dose of New Swahili Writing, too The first issue of the...
View ArticleDan Brown's translators' inferno
Surely it should already be punishment enough for any translator to have to work with Dan Brown's prose, but his publishers have -- appropriately enough, I suppose -- found new circles of hell...
View ArticleDylan and the Nobel
It's the ridiculous idea that won't die: every year as the announcement of the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature approaches some folks convince themselves that Bob Dylan is in the running...
View ArticleEdgar® Awards
They've announced the winners of the 2013 Edgar® Awards, the Mystery Writers of America's awards. I haven' t read (or, indeed, seen) a one of the winners (or, indeed, nominees ...).
View Article'International Literature Award' shortlist
The Best Translated Book Awards will be announced today in New York at 17:30 (I will be announcing the fiction winner !) but if you haven't had your fill of international literary prizes the...
View ArticleMurakami-mania in ... South Korea
No word yet as to the US or UK publishing plans for Murakami Haruki's latest novel, 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年, but in South Korea they're apparently very, very eager to get their hands on this: as...
View ArticleOxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist
And the international prizes keep coming: now the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize has announced its shortlist. One Best Translated Book Award finalist made the cut -- Herta Müller's...
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