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will be held at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York on Tuesday, 1 December, at 18:30. There were actually two winning submissions: Jean Snook, for her translation of Gert Jonke's Der Ferne Klang (The Distant Sound; forthcoming from Dalkey Archive

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Yi Mun-yol's .

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At Eurozine Lidija Kapushevska-Drakulevska reports on 'Recent Macedonian literature between tradition and innovation', in , as:Macedonian literature has long transcended national borders, and has become a European occurrence, so to speak. The latest literature produced in Macedonia (2008/2009) confirms this

At Counterpunch Charles R. Larson reviews The Education of a British-Protected Child, in , noting that:The occasion of a new book by Chinua Achebe -- Africa's most celebrated writer and author of Things Fall Apart, the great African novel --

Every day brings new books-of-the-year lists and the like. The newest batch: in The Guardian, as "our writers and guests pick the best of 2009" in The Telegraph, as "A selection of biographers, novelists, critics and politicians choose their books

In The Guardian Pankaj Mishra writes on , finding:The steady globalisation of national literatures can subtly distort both their production and consumption; and travelling to Hong Kong to judge the prize, I found it hard not to wonder whether the

In his review (not currently available online) of Vladimir Nabokov's in the new issue of The New York Review of Books, John Lanchester offers a gratuitous parenthetical slam of Hermann Broch's , calling it:a strong candidate for the least readable

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of (& Other Conversations), just out from Melville House.

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The New York Times Book Review's list of its is out, and what is most notable is how few of the books are translations ... A number of the books are under review at the complete review:Fiction: by Nicholson Baker

The New Statesman has 'friends and contributors choose their favourite books of 2009' -- see parts and . Nice to see yet again providing support for the terribly under-appreciated Agnes Owens:Scotland's main literary event in 2009 should have been The

A few weeks ago I the fuss the Nelson Mandela Foundation made about the Foreword to Denis Sassou Nguesso's Straight Speaking for Africa (get your copy at or ) -- attributed to Nelson Mandela but, so they said, not something

It's always interesting to see what books are translated into foreign languages and what books are considered 'classics' abroad, and so I'm curious to see how the newly announced (in South Korea) Minumsa -series develops (there are ten titles so

The Jewish Book Council has the five finalists for the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Worth US $100,000, this is one of the richest book prizes in the United States, dwarfing Pulitzers, NBAs, and NBCCs. Unfortunately, they alternate

They've opened -- which rather ambitiously considers itself: "The centrepiece of Melbourne's UNESCO City of Literature Initiative" (i.e. is not to be confused with, for example, , "for the exploration of Montana issues"). As they , it is:A centre dedicated

Writer is being sued by the president of the Italian senate, for libel -- for 1,3 million euros. There's quite a bit about this in the European media, but not a single English-language article I could find; last week, Le

apparently Iran's richest -- the: "top winner receives 110 Bahar Azadi gold coins worth over $270,000" -- have been awarded and, as MNA report, . I've written about before; the win doesn't come as that much of a surprise. Troubling,