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<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel> <title>the Literary Saloon</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/index.htm</link> <description>opinionated commentary on literary matters</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright 2024 the Complete Review</copyright> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs> <managingEditor>mao@complete-review.com</managingEditor> <item> <title>EBRD Literature Prize finalists</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm9</link><description><![CDATA[ The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development has <a href="https://www.ebrd.com/news/2024/ebrd-literature-prize-2024-finalists-revealed.html" target="_blank">announced</a> the three finalists for its Literature Prize, "awarded to the year's best work of literary fiction translated into English, originally written in any language of the regions in which the Bank currently invests and published for the first time by a European (including UK) or North American publisher in the period in question". <br> The finalists are: <ul> <li><i>Barcode</i>, by Tóth Krisztina (tr. Peter Sherwood) <li><i>The End</i>, by Bartis Attila (tr. Judith Sollosy) <li><i>The Wounded Age</i>, by Ferit Edgü (tr. Aron Aji)</ul> The winner will be announced 13 June.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Surrealism</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dn1</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>Art in America</i> Ara H. Merjian offers a list of <a href="https://www.artnews.com/list/art-in-america/columns/most-important-books-surrealism-art-movement-1234704174/nadja-by-andre-bretontrans-richard-howard/" target="_blank">Eight Essential Books About Surrealism</a> -- including André Breton's <i>Nadja</i> and Mark Polizzotti's recent <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/surreal/polizzotti.htm" target="_blank">Why Surrealism Matters</a>.<br> I'd make a case for Gérard Durozoi's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/surreal/durozoi.htm" target="_blank">History of the Surrealist Movement</a>, too .....]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dn1</guid> </item> <item> <title>Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm6</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://womensprize.com/announcing-the-2024-womens-prize-for-fiction-shortlist/" target="_blank">announced</a> the six-title-strong shortlist for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction, "awarded annually to the author of the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK". <br> I haven't seen any of these.<br> The winner will be announced 13 June.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm6</guid> </item> <item> <title>Helen Vendler (1933-2024)</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm7</link><description><![CDATA[ Poetry critic and scholar Helen Vendler has passed away; see, for example, <i>The New York Times</i>' <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/books/helen-vendler-dead.html" target="_blank">obituary</a> <font size="-1">(presumably paywalled)</font>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm7</guid> </item> <item> <title>How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm8</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of a <i>Tale of a Redemption</i>, as Philipp Felsch writes about <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/nietzsche/felschp.htm" target="_blank">How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold</a>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Deutscher Sachbuchpreis shortlist</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm3</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://www.deutscher-sachbuchpreis.de/en/news/detail/nominees-2024" target="_blank">announced</a> the shortlist for the German Non-Fiction Prize -- eight titles, selected from 225 (unfortunately not revealed) submissions.<br> The winner will be announced 11 June.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Cullman fellows</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm4</link><description><![CDATA[ The New York Public Library has <a href="https://www.nypl.org/press/new-york-public-library-announces-new-class-fellows-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center" target="_blank">announced</a> the latest batch of fellows at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers who will now receive: "a stipend of up to $85,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources" for the term of the fellowship, which runs September through May.<br> The fifteen fellows were selected from 620 applicants, from 66 countries. They include <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/egypt/mersali.htm" target="_blank">Traces of Enayat</a>-author Iman Mersal and <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/argentina/pronp.htm" target="_blank">My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain</a>-author Patricio Pron.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024)</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm5</link><description><![CDATA[ Psychoanalyst and author Sudhir Kakar has passed away; see, for example, Rishika Singh's <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-style/author-sudhir-kakar-passes-away-who-is-he-9284725/" target="_blank">report</a> in the <i>Indian Express</i><br> Two of his books are under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font>: <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/kakars/theaod.htm" target="_blank">The Ascetic of Desire</a> and <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/kakars/ecstasy.htm" target="_blank">Ecstasy</a>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm5</guid> </item> <item> <title> PEN America Literary Awards</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl9</link><description><![CDATA[ PEN America has <a href="https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-statement-regarding-the-2024-literary-awards-ceremony-and-conferral-of-annual-prizes/" target="_blank">announced</a> the cancellation of its Literary Awards ceremony -- and, with 28 authors and translators of 61 nominated for the book awards having withdrawn their books from consideration, several of the prizes are going without winners being named.<br> With nine of the ten authors nominated for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award withdrawing their work from consideration, "the Estate of Jean Stein has directed PEN America to donate the $75,000 award to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund"<br> One author who didn't have a chance to withdraw her name will get her prize: Maryse Condé is getting this year's PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature posthumously.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Merve Emre Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm1</link><description><![CDATA[ In the <i>Hindustan Times</i> Simar Bhasin has a Q & A with <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/merve-emre-things-should-be-read-in-as-many-different-ways-as-possible-101713800846929.html" target="_blank">Merve Emre - "Things should be read in as many different ways as possible"</a>.<br> Among her responses: <blockquote><font size="-1"><b>Any other contemporary writers who, in your opinion, deserve more literary attention ?</b><br><br>I think the next Nobel Prize winner should be Gerald Murnane, who is an Australian novelist and is utterly, utterly brilliant. There is a fantastic English writer named Lars Iyer who is a genius, I think, and writes these fantastic academic satires. Brilliant. Very, very, very funny.</font></blockquote> (Two Iyer novels are under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> -- <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/gbx/iyerl.htm" target="_blank">Spurious</a> and <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/gbx/iyerlWjr.htm" target="_blank">Wittgenstein Jr.</a> -- as are several works by Murnane, e.g. <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/murnane/barley.htm" target="_blank">Barley Patch</a>.)]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm1</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Answer to Lord Chandos review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm2</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Pascal Quignard's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/modfr/quignp4.htm" target="_blank">The Answer to Lord Chandos</a>, coming out from Wakefield Press. <br><br> This is Quignard's response to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's classic 'Lord Chandos Letter' -- see, for example, the recent Joel Rotenberg translation from <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-lord-chandos-letter-and-other-writings" target="_blank">New York Review Books</a>. Quignard dates his letter to Chandos 23 April 1605 -- and today, 23 April, happens also to be Quignard's birthday !]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dm2</guid> </item> <item> <title>CWA Daggers longlists</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl7</link><description><![CDATA[ The Crime Writers' Association has announced the longlists for their <a href="https://thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/" target="_blank">Daggers</a> awards -- unfortunately not in one convenient list; annoyingly, you have to click on each category to see the longlisted titles. (<i>The Bookseller</i> has an (incomplete) <a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/mick-herron-lee-child-and-john-banville-longlisted-for-cwa-dagger-awards" target="_blank">overview</a>.) <br> One of the titles longlisted for the <a href="https://thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/gold-dagger/" target="_blank">Gold Dagger</a> for best crime novel is under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> -- <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/herronm/secret_hours.htm" target="_blank">The Secret Hours</a>, by Mick Herron. <br> Disappointingly, I haven't seen any of the titles longlisted for the <a href="https://thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/dagger-for-crime-fiction-in-translation/" target="_blank">Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation</a>.<br> The shortlists will be announced 10 May, and the winners on 4 July.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl7</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Novices of Lerna review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl8</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of a collection of stories by Ángel Bonomini, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/argentina/bonominia.htm" target="_blank">The Novices of Lerna</a>, coming out from Transit Books.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl8</guid> </item> <item> <title>L.A. Times Book Prizes</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl5</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-19/la-times-book-prizes-winners-2024" target="_blank">announced</a> the winners of this year's L.A. Times Book Prizes -- twelve categories, with Ed Park's <i>Same Bed Different Dreams</i> taking the fiction prize.<br><br> I not only have not reviewed any of the winning titles, I haven't <i>seen</i> a single one of the sixty (!) finalists. I am apparently really not keeping up with the latest titles .....]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl5</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Sleepwalkers review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl6</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of the latest Scarlett Thomas, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/thomass/sleepwalkers.htm" target="_blank">The Sleepwalkers</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404c.htm#dl6</guid> </item> <item> <title>Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl2</link><description><![CDATA[ Philosopher Daniel Dennett has passed away; see, for example, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html" target="_blank">obituary</a> in <i>The New York Times</i>.<br><br> The only one of his books under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is his <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/religion/dennettd.htm" target="_blank">Breaking the Spell</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl2</guid> </item> <item> <title>China's hottest genre ?</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl3</link><description><![CDATA[ At Sixth Tone Zhou Min reports on <a href="https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1015006" target="_blank">How 'Farming Literature' Became China's Hottest Genre</a>: <blockquote><font size="-1">This genre centers around a female protagonist’s efforts to get rich while battling various villains -- mainly in the guise of demanding relatives -- and has become widely popular with Chinese web novel readers and film and TV viewers,</font></blockquote>]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Salome in Dublin</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl4</link><description><![CDATA[ The title of my novel <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mao/salome_in_graz.htm" target="_blank">Salome in Graz</a> refers to a 1906 performance of the Richard Strauss opera, but if you want to get in the mood for reading it there's now another recent perfomance available for free viewing online: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/patrickmurtha.bsky.social/post/3kqaykshdkp2w" target="_blank">via</a> I'm pointed to the recent Irish National Opera production that's now <a href="https://operavision.eu/performance/salome" target="_blank">viewable</a> at Operavision; you can watch it there through 19 October. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl4</guid> </item> <item> <title>New Asymptote</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl1</link><description><![CDATA[ The <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/apr-2024/" target="_blank">April issue</a> of <i>Asymptote</i> is now up -- a ton of content, enough to keep you covered for the weekend. <br> And just a few days ago I <a href="#dj7">mentioned</a> that Faroese Literature was getting some good attention -- and there's a good dose of Literature from the Faroe Islands in this issue as well.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dl1</guid> </item> <item> <title>Republic of Consciousness Prize</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk7</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the winner of this year's <a href="https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/" target="_blank">Republic of Consciousness Prize</a> -- rewarding: "the best fiction by small presses [in the UK/Ireland] publishing 12 or fewer titles a year and are wholly independent of any other commercial financial entity" -- and it is <a href="https://charcopress.com/" target="_blank">Charco Press</a>, for <i>Of Cattle and Men</i>, by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry; see, for example, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/17/charco-press-wins-republic-of-consciousness-prize-for-gut-punch-novel" target="_blank">report</a> at <i>The Guardian</i>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk7</guid> </item> <item> <title>Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk8</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the <a href="https://griffinpoetryprize.com/press/2024-shortlist-announcement/" target="_blank">shortlist</a> for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize -- "the world's largest international prize for a single book of poetry written in, or translated into English" --, selected from 592 entries (including 49 translations, from 22 languages), with Don McKay getting the Lifetime Recognition Award.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Les aérostats review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk9</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Amélie Nothomb 2020 novel, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/nothomba/aerostats.htm" target="_blank">Les aérostats</a> -- the 28th work by <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/authors/nothomba.htm" target="_blank">Nothomb</a> under review at the site.<br> I'm still a few behind -- but getting there .....]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Sami Rohr Prize</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk5</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the <a href="https://www.samirohrprize.org/winners" target="_blank">winner</a> of this year's (US$100,000) Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, which alternates from year to year in honoring a work of fiction and of non; this year was a non year, and the prize went to <i>Palestine 1936</i>, by Oren Kessler.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk5</guid> </item> <item> <title>Walking books</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk6</link><description><![CDATA[ At Outside Peter Moore lists <a href="https://www.backpacker.com/stories/50-best-books-about-hiking/" target="_blank">The 50 Best Hiking, Trekking, and Walking Books of All Time</a> -- which I'd normally ignore, but ... props for the inclusion of <i>The Journey to the West</i> by Wu Cheng'en. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk6</guid> </item> <item> <title>Max Lawton profile</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk2</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>Prospect</i> Josiah Gogarty profiles <a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/65717/the-translator-bringing-vladimir-sorokin-to-english-readers" target="_blank">The translator bringing Vladimir Sorokin to English readers</a> -- Max Lawton, translator of <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/soviet/sorokin4.htm" target="_blank">Blue Lard</a>, among (many) other works.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk2</guid> </item> <item> <title>Deep Vellum profile</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk3</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>The Mercury</i> Paola Martinez reports on how <a href="https://utdmercury.com/deep-vellum-expands-literary-and-translation-options-in-north-texas/" target="_blank">Deep Vellum expands literary and translation options in North Texas</a> -- that being publisher <a href="https://www.deepvellum.org/" target="_blank">Deep Vellum</a>, quite a few of whose books are <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/maindex/imprints.htm#deep" target="_blank">under review</a> at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font>.<br> Impressive to hear that: "Deep Vellum is now becoming international as they expand their administrative offices to New York and possibly London". ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk3</guid> </item> <item> <title>More Salome variations</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk4</link><description><![CDATA[ Many <i>Salome</i>-variations are covered in my new novel, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mao/salome_in_graz.htm" target="_blank">Salome in Graz</a>, but the focus is on the ones that appeared up to 1906 -- but there is some mention of a few of the ones that came after, including some cinematic adaptations (Ken Russell !). One that my protagonists didn't get to was <a href="https://www.berlinale.de/en/2024/programme/202415091.html" target="_blank">screened</a> at the Berlinale practically at the same time the book came out -- Atom Egoyan's <i>Seven Veils</i>, starring Amanda Seyfried; it <a href="https://tiff.net/events/seven-veils-with-atom-egoyan" target="_blank">premiered</a> at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.<br> I haven't seen this yet, but hope to at some point; meanwhile, see some of the reviews, at: <ul> <li><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/02/seven-veils-review-atom-egoyan-cold-but-bracing-take-on-salome-amanda-seyfried-berlin-film-festival-1235834508/" target="_blank">Deadline</a> <li><a href="https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/atom-egoyan-seven-veils-movie-review/" target="_blank">Far Out</a> <li><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-tiff-2023-atom-egoyans-seven-veils-is-operatic-look-at-morally-dubious/" target="_blank">The Globe and Mail</a> <li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/seven-veils-review-amanda-seyfried-atom-egoyan-1235585063/" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a> <li><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/seven-veils-review-amanda-seyfried-atom-egoyan-1234905551/" target="_blank">Indie Wire</a> <li><a href="https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/seven-veils-toronto-review/5185773.article" target="_blank">Screen Daily</a> <li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/tiff-2023-atom-egoyan-s-seven-veils-is-a-messy-clever-interesting-movie-and-amanda/article_d55eeda8-7907-557a-87fb-616ba2b56dea.html" target="_blank">Toronto Star</a> <li><a href="https://www.thewrap.com/seven-veils-review-amanda-seyfried-atom-egoyan/" target="_blank">The Wrap</a></ul> And of course you can get my at <i>Salome in Graz</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1304605485/completereview" target="_blank">at Amazon</a>, or <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/ma-orthofer/salome-in-graz/paperback/product-zm8ky6e.html" target="_blank">here</a> (where the promotional code LULUBOOKS15 at checkout gets you 15% off through 19 April).]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Mater 2-10 Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj9</link><description><![CDATA[ Hwang Sok-yong's <i>Mater 2-10</i> has been shortlisted for this year's International Booker Prize, and at Scroll.in Harshaneeyam has <a href="https://scroll.in/article/1066507/international-booker-interview-how-sora-russell-and-youngjae-bae-translated-mater-2-0-from-korean" target="_blank">International Booker interview: How Sora Russell and Youngjae Bae translated ‘Mater 2-10’ from Korea</a>]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Gabriel review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk1</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of George Sand's 1839 <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ancienf/sandg_gabriel.htm" target="_blank">Gabriel</a>. <br> I was a bit surprised that this hasn't gotten more attention recently, given it's subject matter -- issues of gender-identity -- but the literary quality is ... well, not great.<br><br> This is published in the very impressive <a href="https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/MLA-Texts-and-Translations" target="_blank">MLA Texts and Translations</a>-series -- well worth working one's way through.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dk1</guid> </item> <item> <title>Faroese Literature</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj7</link><description><![CDATA[ In New York they're holding <a href="https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/series/faroe-islands-culture-days/" target="_blank">Faroe Islands Culture Days</a> this week, including with the interesting-sounding <a href="https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/lectures-literary/literature-from-the-faroe-islands-do-we-leave-any-traces-at-all/" target="_blank">Literature from the Faroe Islands</a> event on 17 April.<br> This gives me opportunity to point to the impressive <a href="https://www.farlit.fo/" target="_blank">FarLit</a>-site -- a Faroese Literature promotion site. The Nordics are very good with their literary support -- check out <a href="https://norla.no/en/home" target="_blank">Norwegian Literature Abroad</a>, the <a href="https://www.islit.is/en/" target="_blank">Icelandic Literature Center</a>, and the <a href="https://fili.fi/en/" target="_blank">Finnish Literature Exchange</a>, for example -- but it's also a reminder of how many languages/countries can't (or can't be bothered) to offer something similar. (Translation-support isn't cheap but, relatively speaking, it isn't expensive either; I think a lot of languages/countries would do well to at least invest in information-sites, if not outright financial support.)<br> (A reminder: the Faroe Islands have little more than 50,000 inhabitants.)<br><br> Meanwhile, with convenient timing, <i>The Dedalus Book of Faroese Literature</i> is coming out shortly -- see their <a href=" " target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/book.php?id=00000374" target="_blank">publicity page</a> --: twenty-seven texts ! Dedalus has shown an impressive commitment to Faroese literature -- notably in publishing the works of William Heinesen (<a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/faroes/heinesen_BC.htm" target="_blank">The Black Cauldron</a>, etc.).]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj7</guid> </item> <item> <title>John Braine profile</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj8</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>Quilette</i> Brad Strotten profiles John Braine, in <a href="https://quillette.com/2024/04/13/desire-and-ambition-john-braine/" target="_blank">Desire and Ambition</a>.<br> I'm usually all for the book over the movie, but I have to admit seeing the Laurence Harvey/Simone Signoret <i>Room at the Top</i> before coming to the book, and it -- especially the conclusion -- making a big (and devastating) impression on me.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Wolfgang-Koeppen-Preis</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj5</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://www.greifswald.de/de/verwaltung-politik/rathaus/pressemitteilungen/Madame-Nielsen-erhaelt-2024-den-Wolfgang-Koeppen-Preis-fuer-Literatur-der-Universitaets-und-Hansestadt-Greifswald/" target="_blank">announced</a> the winner of this year's Wolfgang Koeppen Prize, a biennial author prize awarded to someone whose work is in the spirit of Koeppen's, and it is Danish author Madame Nielsen; Open Letter published Nielsen's <i>The Endless Summer</i> a few years ago -- see their <a href="https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/the-endless-summer" target="_blank">publicity page</a> -- but much more is available n German.<br> This prize has a <a href="https://www.koeppenhaus.de/preis/" target="_blank">solid list</a> of winners, but it's of particular interest in how the winner is chosen: it's the previous winner who makes the selection -- in this case, 2022 winner Christian Kracht (<a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/suisse/krachtc2.htm" target="_blank">The Dead</a>, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/suisse/krachtc.htm" target="_blank">Imperium</a>, etc.) chose Madame Nielsen.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj5</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Red Handler review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj6</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Johan Harstad's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/norge/harstadj3.htm" target="_blank">The Red Handler</a> -- the <i>Collected Works</i> of (fictional) author Frode Brandeggen, in an (extensively) annotated edition, just out in English, from Open Letter.<br><br> (Two other Harstad titles have also been translated into English and are under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font>, but I wonder if anyone will pick up his (1104-page) <i>Max, Mischa & the Tet Offensive</i>; see, for example, the Gyldendal Agency <a href="https://agency.gyldendal.no/fiction/novels/max-mischa-and-the-tet-offensive/p-10017686-en/" target="_blank">information page</a>.)]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202404b.htm#dj6</guid> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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