http://en.redtram.com/ complete-review.com Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:39:17 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 2132 | Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview and other Conversations http://en.redtram.com/go/232965778/top100/ 232965778 at the Complete Review Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:08:43 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232965778/top100/ 2133 | The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2009 http://en.redtram.com/go/232781587/top100/ 232781587 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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:23:34 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232781587/top100/ 2133 | New Statesman book recommendations http://en.redtram.com/go/232781552/top100/ 232781552 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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:23:29 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232781552/top100/ 2133 | Mandela's not-quite-foreword http://en.redtram.com/go/232781534/top100/ 232781534 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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:23:28 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232781534/top100/ 2133 | International modern classics in ... Korea http://en.redtram.com/go/232366453/top100/ 232366453 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 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:33:56 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232366453/top100/ 2133 | Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature finalists http://en.redtram.com/go/232366437/top100/ 232366437 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 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:33:43 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232366437/top100/ 2133 | The Wheeler Centre http://en.redtram.com/go/232366413/top100/ 232366413 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 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:33:23 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232366413/top100/ 2133 | Tabucchi v. Schifani http://en.redtram.com/go/231906828/top100/ 231906828 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 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:11:15 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231906828/top100/ 2133 | Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards http://en.redtram.com/go/231906800/top100/ 231906800 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, Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:11:05 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231906800/top100/ 2133 | Whitbread Costa Book Awards shortlists http://en.redtram.com/go/231906752/top100/ 231906752 They've the shortlists for the multiple-category -- or, as they nicely put it at the site (trying to remind you that these no longer are the Whitbreads -- good luck with that --, as well as trying to get the Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:10:50 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231906752/top100/ 2133 | Fado review http://en.redtram.com/go/231906711/top100/ 231906711 The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrzej Stasiuk's . Coincidentally, Gerhard Gnauck just had an interesting (in German) of Stasiuk's Polish publisher, the admirable publishing house, in Die Welt. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:10:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231906711/top100/ 2132 | Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk http://en.redtram.com/go/231821715/top100/ 231821715 at the Complete Review Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:08:31 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231821715/top100/ 2133 | Chinese literature abroad http://en.redtram.com/go/231589971/top100/ 231589971 In Shanghai Daily Sonia Jarrett writes at some length about this being a , wondering first:With such a long-standing literary tradition, why is it that few people outside of China have never heard of any famous Chinese novels, let alone Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28:07 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231589971/top100/ 2133 | Borders UK going belly up ? http://en.redtram.com/go/231589951/top100/ 231589951 Book-chain is apparently in deep trouble -- they've closed down sales via the site, for example -- and there's lots of coverage about what this might mean. At The Bookseller Philip Jones and Catherine Neilan report that . Among the Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28:01 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231589951/top100/ 2133 | Haslinger ! Tsunami ! Conversation ! http://en.redtram.com/go/231589937/top100/ 231589937 Just a reminder that tonight, at 18:30, I'll be Josef Haslinger -- about his tsunami book, , and more ! -- at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:27:54 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231589937/top100/ 2133 | Nrittam review -- and book pricing http://en.redtram.com/go/231589919/top100/ 231589919 Maniyambath Mukundan is an important Malayalam (the language they speak in Kerala, India -- not in Malay(si)a) writer, and I finally got around to one of his books; unfortunately that was -- as the American edition, translated by Mary T. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:27:48 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231589919/top100/ 2132 | Nrittam (Dance) by Maniyambath Mukundan http://en.redtram.com/go/231552849/top100/ 231552849 at the Complete Review Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:59:51 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231552849/top100/ 2133 | Camus' (non-)Pantheonization http://en.redtram.com/go/231380202/top100/ 231380202 The French have all the fun, as president Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to move the remains of Albert Camus to the Panthéon has exploded into a huge story there -- even though, as David Jolly in The New York Times:"No decision Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:02 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231380202/top100/ 2133 | Maj Sjowall profile http://en.redtram.com/go/231380175/top100/ 231380175 In The Observer Louise France profiles , Maj Sjöwall -- co-author of the Martin Beck series (which I hope to eventually get to, if I can get my hands on the books ...). Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:02:56 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231380175/top100/ 2133 | 'The Political Fictions Project' http://en.redtram.com/go/231380147/top100/ 231380147 At New York they've started , inviting 'seven writers to submit short stories featuring contemporary political figures'. Among the authors: Adam Haslett, Lionel Shriver, and Walter Kirn. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:02:52 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231380147/top100/