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November 4, 2010

PRI’s The World on The Curious Case of Mandogi’s Ghost

The Web site, PRI’s The World consistently reviews books in translation that other mainstream publications might overlook. Recently, they discussed two “horror” novels, one from Iran, The Blind Owl, and one from Japan, The Curious Case of Mandogi’s Ghost by...

April 19, 2010

Courtesans and Opium reviewed in the Taipei Times

Our titles in Asian literature are frequently reviewed but is always particularly gratifying when they are praised by reviewers in Asia. Most recently, the Taipei Times gave a glowing review to Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of...

March 1, 2010

How Untouchables are changing the face of Indian literature

“What we’re doing is creating a new history of India that’s not in the textbooks.”—Omprakash Valmiki, author of Joothan: An Untouchable’s Life. The above quote comes from a recent interview with Valmiki published in an article from the Wall Street...

February 17, 2010

Best Translated Book Award 2010

Last night the shortlist for The Best Translated Book Award was announced at Idlewild Books. Unfortunately (for us), There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night, by Cao Naiqian, which was on the longlist did...

January 6, 2010

There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night named to the fiction longlist for the 2010 Best Translated Book

Apologies for the long title to the blog post but the title to Cao Naiqian’s novel requires such length. The reason for the headline is thatThere’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night was named...

December 17, 2009

The World selects Sōseki as an international read for the holidays

One of the more interesting year-end lists comes from Bill Marx at PRI’s The World. Marx, a champion of books in translation and works published by university and independent presses, chooses a list of titles that raise the thorny issue...

August 6, 2009

Zhu Wen’s filthy fiction

Julia Lovell, translator of Zhu Wen’s I Love Dollars and Other Stories, has a great article on China Beat that discusses the author’s currently untranslated novella My Little Brother’s Performance (Didi de yanzou). The novella recounts, in often graphic detail,...

July 29, 2009

Well Titled, Well Covered features There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night

The New Yorker‘s blog The Book Bench recently featured Cao Naiqian’s There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night in their “Well Titled, Well Covered” feature. Here’s how they explain their criteria for their well...

July 17, 2009

Summer reading recommendations from PRI’s The World

Looking for a good summer novel that goes beyond your conventional beach reading? Well, Bill Marx from PRI’s The World offers four recommendations of fiction in translation. The list includes The Halfway House, by Guillermo Rosales, In the United States...

July 10, 2009

Interview with John Balcom, Translator of "There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night"

We had meant to post this earlier but PRI’s The World recently interview John Balcom, the translator of the just-published There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night by Chinese writer Cao Naiqian. You can...

January 29, 2009

Obama Reading Recommendations for China

It seems as if everyone has reading recommendations for President Obama and earlier this week Pankaj Mishra weighed in on the subject at The China Beat. One of Mishra’s recommendations was I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China by...

January 27, 2009

University Presses and Fiction in Translation

Earlier this morning, Three Percent listed the finalists for the best translated books of 2008 for fiction and poetry. In the past year or so, Three Percent has established itself as one of the premier sites for reviews, news, and...

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Category: Asian Literature