Women in translation
At the Words without Borders Dispatches weblog Alison Anderson wonders Where Are the Women in Translation ? noting that for translated works women authors are under-represented even more than...
View ArticleThe Islands review-overview
The most recent addition to the complete review is a review-overview of Carlos Gamerro's The Islands -- a novel with some appeal, but one that ultimately just wore me down.
View ArticleHassan Blasim-avatars
In Al-Ahram Weekly Youssef Rakha considers The four avatars of Hassan Blasim. See also my review of Blasim's The Madman of Freedom Square.
View ArticleSelf-publishing in ... India
In the Times of India Parinatha Sampath reports that Now, authors prefer to be in control of their stories, as in India too authors are taking the self-publishing route. Here, too,...
View ArticlePhilip Gabriel translating the new Murakami novel
In the Asahi Shimbun Mariko Nakamura reports that When it comes to publishing Haruki Murakami in English, nothing is lost in translation, revealing that Philip Gabriel: is now translating...
View ArticleNobel Prize in Literature watch: it's down to five
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature will only be announced in October, but previously the Swedish Academy -- who select the winner -- had revealed that 195 eligible names were submitted for...
View ArticleÉtonnants Voyageurs
They're holding this year's 'Festival international du livre et du film' Étonnants Voyageurs this weekend -- and that's a pretty fine and packed list of participants they have there.
View ArticleSunday Times Fiction Prize longlist
I missed this last week, but they've announced the longlist for the (South African) Sunday Times Fiction Prize -- where, unusually for a literary prize, once again: "A large number of books on...
View ArticleHelen Garner on literary prizes
In The Australian they have an adapted version of Helen Garner's keynote speech last month at the inaugural Stella Prize, the new Australian literary prize that only considers works by women --...
View ArticleSjón reviews
Telegram Books have been publishing Icelandic author Sjón's books in the UK for a while now, and now he finally gets the proper treatment in the US as well, as Farrar, Straus and Giroux brought...
View ArticleSoyinka Q & A
SaharaReporters has a Q & A with Wole Soyinka -- mainly about Chinua Achebe. Interesting stuff, including his early doubts about the Heinemann African Writers Series (whereby Sri...
View Article'First Editions, Second Thoughts' auction
Tomorrow 21 May at Sotheby's in London, at 19:30, there will be An auction of fifty contemporary first edition books, annotated by their authors, with all proceeds benefiting English PEN ....
View ArticleChina and India to trade classics
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has been visiting India, and this has led to a variety of protocols, agreements, and 'memoranda of understanding' getting signed, as the two nations try to work more...
View ArticleThe Hanging Garden review
Last year was the Patrick White centenary, and among the highlights surrounding that was the posthumous publication (in Australia and the UK) of a novel he had begun in 1981 but left...
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013
They've announced that Gerbrand Bakker's The Detour (published in the US as Ten White Geese), translated by David Colmer, has won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. (Interestingly, the...
View ArticleSolstice and Other Poems review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Poems in Occitan by Aurélia Lassaque, Solstice and Other Poems. Occitan -- yes, that's the lenga d'òc (i.e. langue d'oc).
View ArticleKorean writers abroad
In The Korea Times Chung Ah-young reports on Korean young writers trying to make it to global scene, as: Han and Hae were among 38 writers who have been sent to overseas residence programs...
View ArticlePalFest 2013
PalFest 2013 -- the Palestine Festival of Literature -- runs 23 through 30 May Among the participating writers from outside the region are China Miéville and Gillian Slovo, and M. Lynx...
View ArticleEarly Man Booker Prize judging report
As they begin to beat the drum for the 23 July 2013 longlist announcement of the Man Booker Prize -- or pettily try to steal the thunder from today's Man Booker International Prize announcement...
View ArticleTop ten Spanish novels since 2000 ?
Via The Modern Novel weblog (which I hope you're following -- lots of good foreign literature coverage to be found across the site) I find the results of ABC's experts'-poll of las mejores...
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