Korean rights for Murakami novel: $1.47 million
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the South Korean competition to land Murakami Haruki's latest novel, 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 -- and now Baek Byung-yeul reports in The Korea Times that it's Game...
View ArticleThe Age of Reason review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the first volume in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Roads to Freedom-trilogy, The Age of Reason. I've enjoyed a lot of Sartre's...
View ArticleNike longlist
They announced the 20-title-strong longlist for the Polish Nike prize a few weeks back. All genres are eligible, and so you find fiction, non, poetry -- and now also a comic book -- all up for...
View ArticleLiterature in translation
At the Prospect weblog Matt Lewis looks at the recent Man Booker International Prize (see my previous mention) and, in A window to the world, wonders, with the prize going yet again to an...
View ArticleOrigin Unknown review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Oliver Rohe's Origin Unknown, forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. It does include the great line: Now all they need is...
View ArticleBookExpo America adventures
Currently, they're holding BookExpo America ('BEA') in New York City, and as a New York resident I don't have any good excuse for avoiding the proceedings, so yesterday I joined thousands in...
View ArticleGerman translated book award to Open City
The Internationale Literaturpreis - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, now awarded for the fifth time, is the major German 'best translated book award' (with the Leipzig Book Fair Prize the other...
View ArticleWomen, translation, and WLT
I discussed Alison Anderson's Words without Borders Dispatches weblog post Where Are the Women in Translation ? a couple of weeks ago, and it's good to see the question is still getting some...
View ArticleTurkish literature in translation
In Al-Ahram Weekly David Tresilian reports that 'Turkey was the market focus at last week's London Book Fair, marking growing Western interest in the literature of this Middle Eastern country',...
View ArticleHeadRead
The Estonian literary festival HeadRead runs through tomorrow; see, for example, the brief introduction, HeadRead Literature Festival Starts in Tallinn at Estonian Public Broadcasting....
View ArticleCommonwealth prizes
They've (apparently) announced the Commonwealth prizes -- the Commonwealth Book Prize (which now, so disappointingly, is simply a 'first book' prize) and Short Story Prize -- though not yet at...
View ArticleMother Departs review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tadeusz Różewicz's Mother Departs.
View ArticleJune online issues
Among the June issues of online periodicals now available is the Queer Issue IV of Words without Borders, as well as the June issue of Open Letters Monthly.
View ArticleIntizar Husain profile
In The Caravan M.Asaduddin profiles the recently Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of Basti, in Intizar Husain and His World.
View ArticleBeckett's Murphy-manuscript
Writers might want to reconsider penning those first- and other drafts of their books on their computers and instead (re)turn to literally penning them: the handwritten sort may offer a better...
View ArticleHer Not All Her US launch
Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's ACFNY Translation Prize-winning work, Her Not All Her -- published in The Cahiers Series -- is being launched in the US at an event at McNally Jackson in New...
View ArticleCzech literature abroad
At Radio Praha David Vaughan talks to Edgar de Bruin: conquering the world with Czech literature. De Bruin runs the literary agency Pluh -- and, as they explain at the site: The name...
View ArticleJoyland review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Stephen King's new novel, Joyland, out today from Hard Case Crime.
View ArticleNatan Book Award
They've announced (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) the winner of the inaugural Natan Book Award, which is given to: an exceptional, not-yet-published, non-fiction book on Jewish themes that has...
View ArticleSeoul Selection profile
In The Korea Herald Claire Lee profiles Hank Kim, in Korean culture advocate with big dreams: Kim quit his reporting job at Yonhap News Agency to start a bookstore and a publishing house, Seoul...
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