Read This Next — My Two Worlds
This week’s Read This Next selection is My Two Worlds by Sergio Chejfec, an Argentinian author who currently resides in NYC. My Two Worlds is his first book to be translated into English (it’s on sale in August, published by us), although it’s his most recent work, which is, mysteriously, how things tend to ...
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Winterbach and Vladislavic win at M-Net
Open Letter’s Ingrid Winterbach took home the M-Net Prize in Afrikaans last night for her newest novel, Die Benederyk. She also won in 2007 for The Book of Happenstance, which just so happens is on sale now. Three Percent favorite Ivan Vladislavic also won last night, in the English category, for his novel Double ...
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More Than Beaches: Brazil’s Shortlists Announced for the Sao Paulo Literary Award
Only four years old, the Premio Sao Paulo de Literatura has already become one of Brazil’s most coveted literary honors. Created by Sao Paulo State’s Secretary of Culture, the prize offers R$200,000 (more than US$127,000) for the categories of best book and debut writer. The Award is the highest cash prize literary award ...
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In Other Words, pass the crumpets, will you?
The University of East Anglia in the UK is looking for submissions for their biannual journal In Other Words, published by the British Centre for Literary Translation. If you are interested in contributing to issues 38-40 (and these contributions are not limited to the specific topics of each issue) drop a line to editor ...
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An Empty Room: Stories
Like countless other foreign authors, Mu Xin is only just now getting his first collection of fiction published in English with An Empty Room, though he has more than twenty books published in mainland China. What seems all the more tragic is that many of these works were written while Xin was living in the United States, as ...
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Interview with Linda Coverdale [Read This Next]
To supplement the advance preview of Jean Echenoz’s Lightning — this week’s Read This Next — book, I talked with translator Linda Coverdale about Echenoz, and the three “Eccentric Genius” books of his that she’s translated. You can read the entire interview here, but for now, ...
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Holy $%^&! [The More You Know]
Holy crap. After spending a week talking about $.99 ebooks and their influence on culture (see this article, and today’s podcast) this story from Reuters takes my “concerns” and EXPLODES them: Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far ...
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