Three Percent, the website dedicated to modern and contemporary international literature, have announced their longlist of 25 titles for this year's Best Translated Book Awards. Founded in 2007 with the purpose of bringing international fiction … [Read more...]
Three Percent announce longlist for 2011 Best Translated Book Awards
January 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Afterthoughts: Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
September 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
In a Nutshell: Don’t let the small size of this novel put you off. Atiq Rahimi packs an awful lot of story into a small space, and he does so with much elegance and poise. As far from a ‘feel good’ novel as you’re likely to get, Earth and … [Read more...]
Forethoughts: Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
September 14, 2010 By 10 Comments
And so I come to the next novel that I'm going to be turning my attention to on RobAroundBooks, and I thought, through fear that you guys may forget that works-in-translation are a big feature around here, that it was about time that I featured a … [Read more...]
Forethoughts: A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu
June 8, 2010 By 6 Comments
A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu (Telegram Books) is one of those books that has languished on my bookshelves for a long time now. But it's not a lack of interest that has prevented me from reading it thus far. Ever since I featured this book in … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: The Foreign Fiction Prize Six
April 22, 2010 By 10 Comments
Foreign Fiction Prize Six, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. This if a shot (if you didn't know already), of the six novels shortlisted for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. I've set myself the task of reading all of them … [Read more...]
Rob’s tackling the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 shortlist
April 18, 2010 By 18 Comments
You may remember a few days ago that I posted the shortlist for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and remarked that the greatest source of the excitement for me was discovering that all but one of the titles on the shortlist was the … [Read more...]
Shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 revealed
April 15, 2010 By 10 Comments
It was an exciting start to a dreary morning, as the shortlist for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was announced earlier today. Taken from the original longlist of 15, which included big 'hitter's such as Jonathan Littell's The Kindly … [Read more...]