The Best Translated Book Awards go to ...
They've announced the winner's of this year's Best Translated Book Awards (indeed, I got to announce the fiction winner); no official announcement up yet at Three Percent (though something...
View ArticlePaprika review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tsutsui Yasutaka's Paprika -- now out in a US edition, too (but, although eligible, definitely not a contender for the 2014 Best...
View ArticleNigeria Prize for Literature
The Nigeria Prize for Literature -- worth a very reasonable $100,000 -- rotates through four genres year by year, and this time around poetry will be rewarded. Still early days in the process,...
View ArticleBTBA ... 2014 ?
As I mentioned yesterday, the winners of the Best Translated Book Awards were announced on Friday. Last year, I looked ahead to the titles I thought would be in the running for this year's...
View ArticleAn Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, published in a nice little edition by Wakefield Press.
View ArticleChildren's books in translation
It's not just adult fiction (and non) that is too-little translated into English: as The Scotsman briefly reports, UK children missing out on foreign books, says author, as award-winning author...
View ArticleIndian authors on the 'terrorism bandwagon'
In The Hindu Reshma S. Kulkarni reports that 'Indian authors have jumped on the Taliban-terrorism bandwagon, but the result is a bit of a mixed bag', in When terror strikes, describing several...
View ArticleDossier K. !
The English translation, by Tim Wilkinson, of Kertész Imre's inspired (and inspiring) Dossier K. is finally out today, from Melville House. Just get your copy already.
View ArticleJeanette Schocken Preis
They've announced that Esterházy Péter has been awarded the Jeanette Schocken Preis - Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur, awarded biennially in memory of the book burning by the Nazis in...
View ArticleBig Taschen books
In the Wall Street Journal Alexandra Cheney reports that Publisher Bets on Big Collectible Books -- specifically, here, the latest Taschen production, Genesis: The 704-page two-volume...
View ArticleSweet Tooth review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth.
View ArticlePEN World Voices coverage
I attended several of the PEN World Voices events last week and have been meaning to organize my thoughts about the various panels I saw -- but keep not quite getting around to it. Fortunately,...
View ArticleNew PEN Germany president Q & A
At Deutsche Welle Sarah Judith Hofmann has a Q & A with the new PEN Germany president, Austrian author Josef Haslinger, New PEN president calls for literary freedom. One of...
View ArticleDutch/Flemish literary prizes
Two of the biggest Dutch-language literary prizes have been announced -- one in the Netherlands, one in Flanders. They've announced that the Libris Literatuur Prijs 2013 voor 'Dit zijn...
View ArticleOnline reading in ... China
The article is based on ... online survey (by the China Youth Daily), so don't consider the numbers or findings too reliable, but it's still interesting to hear that, as Xinhua reports, Readers...
View ArticleBooks about ... Burma
In The Guardian they have Rory MacLean's top 10 books on Burma; shockingly, not a one is a work of fiction by a Burmese author (no Maurice Collis, for example, either). Several are, however...
View ArticleWitold Gombrowicz's Kronos
Among the books I've slowly been making my way through but which I haven't reviewed yet is Witold Gombrowicz's Diary, recently re-published in a one-volume edition by Yale University Press; see...
View ArticleA Short Tale of Shame review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Bulgarian author Angel Igov's A Short Tale of Shame, coming out from Open Letter.
View ArticleTranslation in ... Bangladesh
At bdnews24.com they report that Bengali literature needs translation: PM, as: 'Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has laid emphasis on worldwide translation of creative literary work from...
View ArticleE-reading in ... Africa
In the Christian Science Monitor Donna Bryson finds that there's A 'novel' idea for spreading literature in Africa: The cellphone, as: New technology and new thinking are helping African...
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