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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 2025 the Complete Review</copyright> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs> <managingEditor>mao@complete-review.com</managingEditor> <item> <title>PEN Pinter Prize</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih6</link><description><![CDATA[ English PEN has <a href="https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/leila-aboulela-awarded-pen-pinter-prize-2025/" target="_blank">announced</a> that Leila Aboulela has been awarded this year's PEN Pinter Prize, awarded: "to a writer resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth or former Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world, and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’"]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih6</guid> </item> <item> <title>Serge review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih7</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Yasmina Reza's novel <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/rezay/serge.htm" target="_blank">Serge</a>, due out in English next month, from Restless Books. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih7</guid> </item> <item> <title>Upcoming books</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih5</link><description><![CDATA[ The Literary Hub recently published their <a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-anticipated-books-of-2025-part-two/" target="_blank">Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two</a>, and now The Millions has their <a href="https://themillions.com/2025/07/the-millions-great-summer-2025-book-preview.html" target="_blank">Great Summer 2025 Book Preview</a>, with: "just over 100 titles".]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih5</guid> </item> <item> <title>Preserving the homes of Black literary figures</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih3</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>The Guardian</i> Nneka M Okona look in some detail at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/06/black-authors-home-preservation" target="_blank">Who preserves the homes of Black literary giants</a> (in the United States). ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih3</guid> </item> <item> <title>CARICON Prize</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih4</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://cari-con.org/the-inaugural-caricon-prize-winners-have-been-announced-a-landmark-moment-for-caribbean-literature/" target="_blank">announced</a> the winners of the first CARICON Prize, a new prize for Caribbean literature awarded by the Caribbean Literature Conference.<br> Prizes were awarded in four categories; <i>A House for Miss Pauline</i>, by Diana McCaulay, took the fictipn prize; see the publicity pages from <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/diana-mccaulay/a-house-for-miss-pauline/9781643757223/" target="_blank">Algonquin Books</a> and <a href="https://www.dialoguebooks.co.uk/titles/diana-mccaulay-2/a-house-for-miss-pauline/9780349704265/" target="_blank">Dialogue</a>.<br> The Lifetime Achievement Award for Caribbean Literature went to Earl Lovelace.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Amitava Kumar Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih1</link><description><![CDATA[ At Frontline Majid Maqbool has a Q & A with the author, in <a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/columns/amitava-kumar-interview-books-literary-influences-reading-journeys/article69776350.ece" target="_blank">Reading is good when it disturbs you: Amitava Kumar</a>. <br><br> Among Kumar's responses, the somewhat surprising: <blockquote><font size="-1"><b>Your go-to Indian classic ? One that you would recommend everyone should read ?</b><br><br>I have always liked Pankaj Mishra's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mishrap/bcinludh.htm" target="_blank">Butter Chicken in Ludhiana</a>.</font></blockquote> The only Kumar title under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ghistory/kumara.htm" target="_blank">A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of his Arm a Tiny Bomb</a>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih1</guid> </item> <item> <title>American Psycho review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih2</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Bret Easton Ellis' notorious 1991 novel, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/ellisbe2.htm" target="_blank">American Psycho</a>. <br><br> With books that got this much review (and other) coverage, it can sometimes be a real chore going through that for quotes, etc., but I rather enjoyed looking back on all the outrage about this one from back in the day. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ih2</guid> </item> <item> <title>Philippe Jaccottet profile</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig8</link><description><![CDATA[ At swissinfo Mariella Radaelli reports how <a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-fine-arts/literary-world-celebrates-centenary-of-swiss-poet-philippe-jaccottet/89612574" target="_blank">Literary world celebrates centenary of Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet</a>. (Jaccottet came close to celebrating himself, only passing away in 2021.) <br> Seagull has brought out several of his books; see their <a href="https://seagullbooks.org/collections/author-philippe-jaccottet" target="_blank">author page</a> for him.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Guyana Prize for Literature</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig9</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the winners of the 2024 Guyana Prize for Literature -- though there doesn't seem to be an (active) official site for the prize, and the only report I could find -- at <i>Stabroek News</i> -- is <a href="https://www.stabroeknews.com/2025/07/05/news/guyana/top-writers-honoured-at-2024-guyana-prize-for-literature/" target="_blank">largely paywalled</a>, revealing the name of the author who took the fiction prize -- Oonya Kempadoo -- but not the work ..... But an older <a href="https://www.stabroeknews.com/2025/06/21/news/guyana/guyana-prize-for-literature-announces-2024-shortlists-across-six-categories/" target="_blank">article</a> on the shortlist-announcement reveals it must be <i>Naniki</i>; see also the Dundurn Press <a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459751491-naniki" target="_blank">publicity page</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Premio Strega</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig6</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://premiostrega.it/PS/andrea-bajani-vince-la-lxxix-edizione-del-premio-strega/" target="_blank">announced</a> the winner of this year's Premio Strega, the leading Italian novel prize, and it is <i>L'anniversario</i>, by Andrea Bajani; see also the Feltrinelli <a href="https://www.feltrinellieditore.it/opera/lanniversario/" target="_blank">publicity page</a>. <br> Almost a third of voters voted for this -- 194 out of 646 --, but three other titles got over 100 votes each, and the fifth got 99. <br> See also the Rice News profile, <a href="https://news.rice.edu/news/2024/rice-novelist-andrea-bajani-finds-himself-translation" target="_blank">At Rice, novelist Andrea Bajani finds himself in translation</a>.<br> The only Bajani title under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/italia/bajania.htm" target="_blank">If You Kept a Record of Sins</a>, while <i>The Book of Homes</i> is forthcoming from Deep Vellum in August; see their <a href="https://store.deepvellum.org/products/the-book-of-homes" target="_blank">publicity page</a>. This one should be out in English soon, too.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig6</guid> </item> <item> <title>CWA Daggers</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig7</link><description><![CDATA[ The Crime Writers' Association has announced the winners of this year's <a href="https://thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/" target="_blank">CWA Daggers</a> -- though not in one convenient press release; but see, for exmple the <a href="https://theartsshelf.com/2025/07/04/2025-cwa-dagger-awards-winners-revealed/" target="_blank">run-down</a> at The Arts Shelf.<br> The only winning title under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger-winner -- Sam Bett's translation of Otani Akira's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/japannew/otania.htm" target="_blank">The Night of Baba Yaga</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig7</guid> </item> <item> <title>Korean literature abroad</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig4</link><description><![CDATA[ They recently held a forum on <a href="https://www.ltikorea.or.kr/en/board/notice_en/boardView.do?bbsIdx=15568" target="_blank">Strategies for fostering the Global Expansion of Korean Literature</a>, and in <i>The Korea Times</i> Kim Se-jeong reports that <a href="https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/books/20250703/despite-han-kangs-nobel-win-korean-literature-still-struggles-for-global-recognition-experts-say" target="_blank">Despite Han Kang’s Nobel win, Korean literature still struggles for global recognition, experts say</a>. <br> In his keynote speech Kwon Young-min pointed out: <blockquote><font size="-1">Korean literature remains on the margins of global literary discourse, with international readers still lacking a deep understanding of its essence.</font></blockquote> While I'm no huge fan of this kind of status-seeking, at least they do put considerable effort into spreading the literary word -- would that more countries and languages did that .....]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Blowfish review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig5</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Jo Kyung-Ran's 2010 novel <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/korea/jokr2.htm" target="_blank">Blowfish</a>, now out in English.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig5</guid> </item> <item> <title>(Revised) Dutch canon</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig2</link><description><![CDATA[ <a href="https://athenaeumscheltema.nl/nieuws/2025/de-nieuwe-literaire-canon-2025" target="_blank">Via</a>, I'm pointed to the fact that, for the third time after 2015 and 2020, the (Flemish) Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature has released its Dutch literary canon-list of <a href="https://literairecanon.be/" target="_blank">50 (+1) essentiële werken uit de Nederlandstalige literatuur</a>.<br> Re-considering such a list every five years seems like a good idea; it's also interesting to compare to the lists from <a href="https://canon2015.literairecanon.be/nl/werken" target="_blank">2015</a> and <a href="https://canon2020.literairecanon.be/nl/werken" target="_blank">2020</a>.<br> The most recent title on the list dates back more than three decades -- Harry Mulisch's 1992 <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mulischh/heaven.htm" target="_blank">The Discovery of Heaven</a>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig2</guid> </item> <item> <title>BRICS Literary Prize</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig3</link><description><![CDATA[ Though it was established last fall, they've apparently now 'launched' the new <a href="https://bricsaward.org/" target="_blank">BRICS Literature Award</a>, which: "targets authors of the BRICS countries" -- currently: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia. <br> At Realnoe Vremya Ekaterina Petrova reports on it, in <a href="https://realnoevremya.com/articles/8923-brics-literary-prize-makes-an-ambitious-claim" target="_blank">‘Between the Prix Goncourt and the Nobel’: BRICS Literary Prize makes an ambitious claim</a> -- though it turns out that this claim is that: <blockquote><font size="-1">neither publishers nor authors will submit applications; instead, the jury will nominate candidates from each country. Furthermore, the nominations will be for authors themselves, not specific works.</font></blockquote> Each of the ten national juries will apparently nominate three writers (the longlist), with one writer from each country then making the shortlist. Translating the works for the jurors from the different countries to judge them would seem to be a problem .....]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Österreichischer Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#if8</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://www.bmwkms.gv.at/themen/aktuell/zhadan--staatspreis-europaeische-literatur2025.html" target="_blank">announced</a> the winner of this year's Austrian State Prize for European Literature, a leading author-prize for ... European authors, with an excellent list of previous winners, and it is Serhiy Zhadan.<br> Several works by Zhadan are under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font>:<ul> <li><a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ukraine/zhadans6.htm" target="_blank">Anarchy in the UKR</a> <li><a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ukraine/zhadans.htm" target="_blank">Depeche Mode</a> <li><a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ukraine/zhadans3.htm" target="_blank">Mesopotamia</a> <li><a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ukraine/zhadans5.htm" target="_blank">The Orphanage</a> <li><a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ukraine/zhadans2.htm" target="_blank">Voroshilovgrad</a> <li><a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ukraine/zhadans4.htm" target="_blank">What We Live For, What We Die For</a></ul>]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#if8</guid> </item> <item> <title>David R. Slavitt (1935-2025)</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#if9</link><description><![CDATA[ Poet and translator David R. Slavitt -- who also wrote fiction as, among others, 'Henry Sutton' -- passed away in May, and Clay Risen's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/books/david-r-slavitt-dead.html" target="_blank">obituary</a> <font size="-1">(presumably paywalled)</font> of him is now up at <i>The New York Times</i>. <br> I am only familiar with his translations -- with only his translation of Jean de Sponde's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ancienf/spondej.htm" target="_blank">Sonnets of Love & Death</a> under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> -- but he had ... considerable success with the novel <i>The Exhibitionist</i>, published under the pseudonym Henry Sutton; it apparently sold four million copies .....]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#if9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Speaking in Tongues review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig1</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Nobel laureate J.M.Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos' exchanges on language and translation, in <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/coetzeej/speaking_in_tongues.htm" target="_blank">Speaking in Tongues</a>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#ig1</guid> </item> <item> <title>Writing Australia</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#if7</link><description><![CDATA[ Creative Australia has launched a new body today, <a href="https://creative.gov.au/writing-australia" target="_blank">Writing Australia</a>, to support and promote "the Australian literature sector" and "the development of markets and audiences for Australian literature" -- with A$26 million to spend over the next three years<br> See also Esther Anatolitis wondering in <i>The Guardian</i>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/01/writing-australia-poet-laureate-national-literature-body-authors" target="_blank">Writing Australia: can the new national literature body make a real difference for authors ?</a>]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202507a.htm#if7</guid> </item> <item> <title>Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if3</link><description><![CDATA[ They held the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize -- the German-language read-in-front-of-a-jury prize -- and they've <a href="https://bachmannpreis.orf.at/stories/3311471/" target="_blank">announced</a> the winning text, <a href="https://files.orf.at/vietnam2/files/bachmannpreis/202520/1092298_fh_gangl_natascha_da_sta_1092298.pdf" target="_blank">DA STA</a> <font size="-1">(warning ! dreaded pdf format !)</font>, by Natascha Gangl.<br> With an opening line of: "Wou g'heastn du hi ?" non-native speakers might find it ... challenging.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Tash Aw Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if4</link><description><![CDATA[ At Scroll.in Chaitanya Srivastava has a Q & A with the author, mainly about his new novel <i>The South</i>, in: <a href="https://scroll.in/article/1082830/silences-reveal-as-much-as-noise-malaysian-writer-tash-aw-on-his-new-coming-of-age-novel" target="_blank">‘Silences reveal as much as noise’: Malaysian writer Tash Aw on his new coming-of-age novel</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Solidaridad Bookshop for sale</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if5</link><description><![CDATA[ The Solidaridad Bookshop in Manila, founded by <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/filipino/josefs.htm" target="_blank">Sin</a>-author F. Sionil José 59 years ago, is up for sale; see, for example, Angeli Ruth R. Acosta's report in <i>The Varsitarian</i>, <a href="https://varsitarian.net/literary/20250628/f-sionil-joses-manila-bookshop-up-for-sale" target="_blank">F. Sionil José’s Manila bookshop up for sale</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if5</guid> </item> <item> <title>The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if6</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Liza Tully's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/usmystery/tullyl.htm" target="_blank">The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant</a>, coming out shortly. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if6</guid> </item> <item> <title>Pak Kyongni finalists</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if1</link><description><![CDATA[ I missed this last week, but they've announced the three finalists for this year's <a href="https://tojicf.com/sub/sub03_01.php" target="_blank">Pak Kyongni Prize</a>, and they are: Salwa Bakr, Amitav Ghosh, and John Banville; see Hwang Dong-hee's <i>The Korea Herald</i> <a href="https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10514272" target="_blank">report</a>. <br> This author prize has been awarded since 2011, and it has a solid list of previous winners.<br> The winner will be announced in September.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if1</guid> </item> <item> <title>Hemang Ashwinkumar on translation</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if2</link><description><![CDATA[ At The Wire Hemang Ashwinkumar writes on <a href="https://thewire.in/culture/english-and-a-translators-shame" target="_blank">English and a Translator's Shame</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#if2</guid> </item> <item> <title>Académie française palmarès</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie6</link><description><![CDATA[ The Académie française has <a href="https://www.academie-francaise.fr/sites/academie-francaise.fr/files/26_06_2025_palmares_vf.pdf" target="_blank">announced</a> its (many) palmarès -- 71 'distinctions', with Akira Mizubayashi being awarded the Grand Prix de la francophonie and Alice Kaplan getting the Grande médaille de la francophonie.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie6</guid> </item> <item> <title>Geoff Dyer Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie7</link><description><![CDATA[ At the <i>New Left Review</i>'s Sidecar Leo Robson has a lengthy Q & A with Geoff Dyer, in <a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/theory-in-the-air" target="_blank">Theory in the Air</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie7</guid> </item> <item> <title>Nobel laureate named to Académie française</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie8</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://www.academie-francaise.fr/actualites/election-de-m-alain-aspect-f22" target="_blank">elected</a> a new 'immortel' to the Académie française -- though perhaps not one most will have read anything by: it's Alain Aspect, who <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/" target="_blank">shared</a> the 2022 Physics prize with John F. Clauser and <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/physics/zeilinger.htm" target="_blank">Dance of the Photons</a>-author Anton Zeilinger.<br> Aspect's <i>Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions</i> recently came out in English -- see the University of Chicago Press <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo236263192.html" target="_blank">publicity page</a> --; I have a copy and do hope to get to it soon.<br> Aspect won the election for fauteuil 22 overwhelmingly, with sixteen votes, the two other contenders each only receiving a single vote.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Richard Flanagan Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie9</link><description><![CDATA[ This week's 'The books of my life'-column features the <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/austnz/flanagr1.htm" target="_blank">Gould's Book of Fish</a>-author, in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/27/richard-flanagan-when-i-reread-evelyn-waughs-scoop-it-had-corked-badly" target="_blank">Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’</a>. <br> Among his responses: <blockquote><font size="-1"><b>The book or author I came back to</b><br><br>When I was young, Thomas Bernhard seemed an astringent, even unpleasant taste. But perhaps his throatless laughter, his instinctive revulsion when confronted with power and his incantatory rage speak to our times.</font></blockquote>]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Hidden Heroes review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie5</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of a new <i>Anthology of North Korean Fiction</i>, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/korea/anthology_NK.htm" target="_blank">Hidden Heroes</a>. <br><br> We get a ton of stuff from South Korea now, but still far too little from the North, so it's good to see a bit more -- though of course my preference would be for novels, rather than stories. <br> Meanwhile, don't forget the invaluable (if too rarely updated) <a href="http://dprklit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">North Korean Literature in English</a> weblog.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie5</guid> </item> <item> <title>New World Literature Today</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie3</link><description><![CDATA[ The <a href="https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july" target="_blank">July/August issue </a> of <i>World Literature Today</i> is now out, with a focus on 'Gaza Voices' and a section devoted to 'Guadalupe Nettel: The 2025 Puterbaugh Fellow'. <br> And, of course, there's the <a href="https://worldliteraturetoday.org/book-review/2025/July" target="_blank">Book Review section</a>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Orwell Prizes</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie4</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the winners of this year's <a href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-prizes/" target="_blank">Orwell Prizes</a> -- though not yet at the official site, last I checked, but see, for example, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/25/orwell-prize-for-political-writing-victoria-amelina-ukraine" target="_blank">report</a> in <i>The Guardian</i>. <br> <i>Heart, Be at Peace</i>, by Donal Ryan, took the Political Fiction Book prize; see also the publicity pages from <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/436371/heart-be-at-peace-by-ryan-donal/9781804994504" target="_blank">Penguin</a> and <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773470/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan/" target="_blank">Viking</a>, or get your copy at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059383464X/ref=nosim/completereview" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/81962/9780593834640" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1804994502/ref=nosim/completereview07" target="_blank">Amazon.co.uk</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie4</guid> </item> <item> <title>EBRD Literature Prize</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#id8</link><description><![CDATA[ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has <a href="https://www.ebrd.com/home/news-and-events/news/2025/sons--daughters-by---ivana-bodro-i--translated-by-ellen-elias-bu.html#" target="_blank">announced</a> the winner of its Literature Prize -- and it is <i>Sons, Daughters</i> by Ivana Bodrožić, in Ellen Elias-Bursać's translation; see also the Seven Stories <a href="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4568-sons-daughters" target="_blank">publicity page</a>, or get your copy at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1644213354/ref=nosim/completereview" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/81962/9781644213353" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1911710060/ref=nosim/completereview07" target="_blank">Amazon.co.uk</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#id8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Shortlist: Europese Literatuurprijs</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#id9</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://www.letterenfonds.nl/actueel/shortlist-europese-literatuurprijs-2025" target="_blank">announced</a> the shortlist for this year's Europese Literatuurprijs, a literary prize for the best European novel in Dutch translation.<br> The winner will be announced 3 September.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#id9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Shortlist: Miles Franklin</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie1</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="http://perpetual.com.au/insights/2025-miles-franklin-literary-award-shortlist-revealed/" target="_blank">announced</a> the shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award, a leading Australian novel prize. <br> The winner will be announced 24 July.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie1</guid> </item> <item> <title>International Booker Prize judging panel</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie2</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/press-releases/natasha-brown-announced-as-chair-of-judges-for-the-international-booker" target="_blank">announced</a> the judging panel for the 2026 International Booker Prize, with Natasha Brown chairing the panel that also includes Marcus du Sautoy, Sophie Hughes, Troy Onyango, and Nilanjana S. Roy.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202506c.htm#ie2</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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