'China's Online Literature Behemoth'
I continue to be fascinated by the development of the online-publishing/reading model in China -- and at China Buzz Chi Yi writes about China's Online Literature Behemoth (which is apparently...
View ArticleNarratives for Europe
Via I learn of the Narratives for Europe project -- and see that the book/collection Remappings: The Making of European Narratives is also available online (warning ! dreaded pdf format !).
View ArticleGeorg-Büchner-Preis to Sibylle Lewitscharoff
The Georg-Büchner-Preis -- the leading German author (as opposed to book) prize, and worth €50,000 -- has been awarded to Sibylle Lewitscharoff; see, for example, the Deutsche Welle report,...
View ArticleThe End of Oulipo ? review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement by Lauren Elkin and Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo ? Oulipo ! So, yeah, I kind of went...
View ArticleMarian Schwartz Q & A
At Russia Beyond the Headlines they have a Q & A with translator-from-the-Russian Marian Schwartz. I can't wait to see how US/UK translators react to her comment: Of course, Western...
View ArticlePrize: Etisalat Prize for Literature
Oil-behemoth Etisalat set up the Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature a few years ago, and now Etisalat (Nigeria) has apparently endowed an African first novel prize, the Etisalat...
View ArticlePrize: Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
Joining Annie Leibovitz (Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities), Michael Haneke (Arts), and the Higgs-boson guy (Technical and Scientific Research), they've announced that...
View ArticlePrize: French-American Foundation Translation Prizes
They announced the French-American Foundation Translation Prizes yesterday, and apparently Prehistoric Times by Eric Chevillard and translated by Alyson Waters took the fiction prize (and non...
View ArticlePrize: [Baileys] Women's Prize for Fiction
They've announced that May We Be Forgiven (by A.M.Homes) has been awarded the 2013 Orange [Baileys] Women's Prize for Fiction. (And, yes, they announced their new sponsor a few days ago...
View ArticleAyako review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tezuka Osamu comic, Ayako.
View ArticleTranslation Database 2013
Chad Post has posted the (preliminary) 2013 'Translation Database' (of (previously untranslated) fiction and poetry in translation published in the US in 2013 -- you can download it here), and...
View ArticleOxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
They've announced the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (though not yet at the official site, last I checked), and this prize: "for book-length literary translations into...
View ArticleInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
They've announced that City of Bohane (by Kevin Barry) has been awarded this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (and the €100,000 that goes with it). It was selected from...
View ArticleViewing Faulkner's Nobel medal
On 11 June, at 10:00 and 14:00 (there are two sessions), Sotheby's (New York) is holding an auction of Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Of particular interest: lot 259,...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson confuses fact and fiction
It what can only be interpreted as a rather desperate attempt to stir up publicity, Scarlett Johansson is apparently suing French publisher JC Lattès over a novel they recently published (La...
View ArticleEvil and the Mask review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nakamura Fuminori's thriller, Evil and the Mask., coming out this week from Soho Crime.
View ArticlePremio Ostana: scritture in lingua madri
Last week they had the awards ceremony for the Premio Ostana: scritture in lingua madri (or Premi Ostana: escrituras en lenga maire, as it is in the local Occitan) -- the Ostuna Prize for...
View ArticleGender in UK reviewing
Following the example of the VIDA count (examining the gender-make-up of reviewers, reviewed authors, etc. at various publications) The Guardian does a similar counting exercise in considering...
View ArticleYoram Kaniuk (1930-2013)
Yoram Kaniuk has passed away; see, for example, Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk dies of cancer aged 83 in Haaretz. Quite a bit of his work has been translated into English, including the...
View ArticleThe Summer of the Elder Tree review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Marie Chaix's The Summer of the Elder Tree, forthcoming shortly from Dalkey Archive Press (and translated by her husband, Harry...
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