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literarysaloon_feed They've announced the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award, the leading Australian novel prize, and it is Ghost Cities, by Siang Lu; see also the University of Queensland Press publicity page.
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literarysaloon_feed English PEN has announced its latest batch of PEN Translates grants -- 14 titles translated from 13 languages -- as well as two PEN Translates x SALT grants.
A good-looking though European-language-heavy list -- there are two translations from Arabic and an anthology that includes texts translated from Mapuche and Quechua, but still ..... (The two PEN Translates x SALT works -- awarded for South Asian Literature in Translation -- are at least from Urdu and Hindi.)
A good-looking though European-language-heavy list -- there are two translations from Arabic and an anthology that includes texts translated from Mapuche and Quechua, but still ..... (The two PEN Translates x SALT works -- awarded for South Asian Literature in Translation -- are at least from Urdu and Hindi.)
literarysaloon_feed The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a collection of mini dramas and short prose by Gerhard Rühm, cake & prostheses, out from Twisted Spoon Press.
biblioklept_feed“A Man Who Writes”
by
Russell Edson
A man had written head on his forehead, and hand on each hand, and foot on each foot.
His father said, stop stop stop, because the redundancy is like having two sons, which is two sons too many, as in the first instance which is one son too many.
The man said, may I write father on father?
Yes, said father, because one father is tired of bearing it all alone.
Mother said, I’m leaving if all these people come to dinner.
But the man wrote dinner all over the dinner.
When dinner was over father said to his son, will you write belch on my belch?
The man said, I will write God bless everyone on God.
literarysaloon_feed The Nigeria Prize for Literature rotates through four categories, and this year it's the turn of novels again and they've now announced the longlist for this year's prize -- not yet at the official site, because god forbid that would be up-to-date, but see, for example, the report in The Guardian (Nigeria).
Eleven titles are in the running, including novels by Uwem Akpan and Chika Unigwe, selected from a record 252 entries.
Eleven titles are in the running, including novels by Uwem Akpan and Chika Unigwe, selected from a record 252 entries.
literarysaloon_feed At okayafrica Nelson C.J. finds: 'The late 2000s to late 2010s were an era of vibrant publications, literary prizes, and the emergence of incredible literary talents. All that has been replaced with a loss of community and dwindling literary spaces' in considering: The African Literature Ecosystem Used to Be Unstoppable. What Went Wrong ?
literarysaloon_feed The Center for Fiction has announced the longlist for their First Novel Prize, awarded for a debut work of fiction by a US author -- 29 titles selected from 185 submitted titles.
Granted, many of these titles apparently haven't been released yet, but I haven't seen, much less read a one of these .....
Granted, many of these titles apparently haven't been released yet, but I haven't seen, much less read a one of these .....
literarysaloon_feed In The Guardian Lucy Knight reports on how: ‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image.
Yes:
Yes:
In an age of constant scrolling, there is social capital to be gained by simply looking as if you are a cultured person who listens to music on vinyl and reads lots of books. And creating an aesthetically pleasing bookshelf is now easier than ever, thanks to an increase in booksellers who trade in “books by the metre”.Not a new story/subject, but ... *sigh*.
literarysaloon_feed The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of The Pearlsong -- a short hymn found in (very few of the manuscripts of) the apocryphal Acts of Thomas, presented in a trilingual edition (Syriac, ancient Greek, and English) with a great deal of supporting material.
This is the first volume in the new Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transformation-series from the Center for the Study of World Religions / Harvard University Press (forthcoming volume four will cover: Cannabis in Arabic Verse and Prose). Admirably, too, the book is freely available (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) in an open-access digital format.
This is the first volume in the new Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transformation-series from the Center for the Study of World Religions / Harvard University Press (forthcoming volume four will cover: Cannabis in Arabic Verse and Prose). Admirably, too, the book is freely available (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) in an open-access digital format.
literarysaloon_feed At The Paris Review blog The Netanyahus-author Joshua Cohen talks with Blue Lard-author Vladimir Sorokin, in The Guts of the Russian Brontosaurus-Cow: A Conversation with Vladimir Sorokin -- specifically about his The Sugar Kremlin, forthcoming in English from Dalkey Archive Press; see their publicity page.
literarysaloon_feed At Scroll.in they have: 'Writers Charles Bernstein, Jonathan Cook, Laetitia Zecchini, and Saikat Majumdar on what ‘Literary Activism’ means to them', in ‘A new route for thinking’: Four writers on ten years of Amit Chaudhuri’s ‘Literary Activism’.
literarysaloon_feed Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen, best known for his novel Elling (or, in Norwegian, his series of four novels around the character Elling; only the first volume appears to have been translated into English), has passed away; see, for example, the AP report and publisher Cappelen Damm's note.
See also the Cappelen Damm Agency author page for English-language information about him and his many works.
See also the Cappelen Damm Agency author page for English-language information about him and his many works.
literarysaloon_feed The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Lee Child's One Shot -- the ninth Jack Reacher novel (and the thirteenth under review here).
And, yes, this was the basis for the 2012 film, Jack Reacher -- featuring the ludicrously miscast Tom Cruise in the title role, but also ... Werner Herzog.
And, yes, this was the basis for the 2012 film, Jack Reacher -- featuring the ludicrously miscast Tom Cruise in the title role, but also ... Werner Herzog.
literarysaloon_feed They've announced the thirty finalists for this year's Hotlist, a German prize where all independent publishers are invited to subit a single title -- 184 did this year.
It makes for an interesting selection, and overview of recent German publishing.
It makes for an interesting selection, and overview of recent German publishing.
literarysaloon_feed They've announced the winners of this year's Theakston awards, with Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee, winning the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.