More books up for auction
In New York Swann has an auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature scheduled for Thursday 20 June -- which is currently on view. They also have the usual catalogue and a "3D...
View ArticleTranslation from the ... Arabic
Via I'm pointed to Ursula Lindsey's recent piece on A Potential Renaissance for Arabic Translation at Al Fanar. Among the titbits of interest: For the Library of Arabic Literature,...
View ArticleRedemption (A Conspiracy of Faith) review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jussi Adler-Olsen third 'Department Q'-thriller, Redemption, now published in the US as A Conspiracy of Faith.
View ArticleLibraries of the future ?
In the Boston Globe Anne Gray Fischer profiles The Library Test Kitchen at Harvard --: Dedicated to rescuing physical, book-dense libraries from obsolescence, the team of students and...
View Article'Saving' Hindi through literature ?
I hadn't realized Hindi -- one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world -- needed saving but in this IANS report (here at the Business Standard) some apparently are concerned: Influence...
View ArticleEléctrico W review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Hervé Le Tellier's Eléctrico W, out today from Other Press. I'm now also really curious about Le Tellier's (French)...
View ArticleMichael Krüger Q & A
At Publishing Perspectives Amanda DeMarco has a Q & A with soon-to-retire (from Hanser Verlag) publisher Michael Krüger -- brief, but covering a lot of territory.
View ArticlePremio Gregor von Rezzori
They've announced that El ruido de las cosas al caer, Juan Gabriel Vásquez's 2011 Premio Alfaguara-winning novel, has now, as Il rumore delle cose che cadono, also won the Premio Gregor von...
View ArticleSa'edi reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two plays from the 1980s by Iranian author Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi: Othello in Wonderland Mirror-Polishing Storytellers
View ArticleTranslations from the ... French
French Culture "are delighted to release a list of over 500 fantastic titles translated from French since January 2012", in their (post titled) 2013 Translated Titles List. Whoa, you may...
View ArticleNeustadt International Prize for Literature jurors
The Nobel Prize in Literature is in a league of its own as far as international author-prizes go, but in the tier below that the biennial Neustadt International Prize for Literature is one of...
View ArticleWhen the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Begenas Sartov's When the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish. Yes, the title alone would have piqued my interest, but the fact...
View ArticleWarwick Prize for Writing
They've announced the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Writing; in previous years this all-genre biennial prize had a 'theme' (complexity in 2009; colo(u)r in 2011) but for the life of me I...
View ArticleMiles Franklin Literary Award
They've announced that Questions of Travel (by Michelle de Kretser) has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, probably the leading Australian literary award, and worth A$60,000....
View ArticleMagadh review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Shrikant Verma's collection of poetry, Magadh, coming out from Almost Island Books.
View ArticleHerman Koch Q & A
At Winstonsdad's Blog there's a Q & A with The Dinner-author Herman Koch -- and I am especially thrilled by this exchange: What are you favourite Dutch books ? For me there is only one, I...
View ArticlePaperbacks: dead or alive ?
At Slate Katie Arnold-Ratliff wonders: 'Have reports of the paperback's death been greatly exaggerated ?' in Soft Target. As a die-hard fan of the (mass-market and smaller sized)...
View ArticleBestselling Jia Pingwa
Via Paper Republic I find Wang Wen's Xinhua-report, Best-selling author Jia Pingwa sticks to rural life, who notes: By selling nearly 1 million hard copies and 500,000 ebooks of his latest...
View ArticlePeace Prize of the German Book Trade
They've announced that the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade -- to be handed over in October -- goes to Voices from Chernobyl-author Svetlana Alexievich this year; see also, for...
View ArticleTranslating Christa Wolf
At the BOMBlog Larissa Zimberoff has an interesting Q & A with 'Damion Searls on the transformation of English to English and the perception of American culture in his translation of...
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