the Literary Saloon

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Marcel Beyer gets Joseph-Breitbach-Prize - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz have announced that Marcel Beyer has won the well-endowed Joseph-Breitbach-Preis.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807a.htm#fq2

Women in Yemeni fiction - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Ahmed Ateeq's Images of women in Yemeni fiction isn't the most exciting piece we've ever linked to, but we're impressed the Yemen Times reprints an article like this.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807a.htm#fp6

Books in China - (Found July 2, 2008 )

It's not particularly informative, but in Turning the page in the China Daily You Nuo reports that: But one commodity has remained a constant in the marketplace since the so-called era of "reform and opening up". It is the book.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807a.htm#fp7

Banquet of Lies review - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Amin Zaoui's Banquet of Lies -- which, impressively and usefully, Marion Boyars have brought out in a bilingual edition.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807a.htm#fp8

Ramayana at British Library - (Found July 2, 2008 )

In his column in The Telegraph A.N.Wilson makes us aware of the exhibit The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India's Great Epic. But he uses that odd springboard to instead write about: Rediscovering Aenid, the epic of the West.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fp3

Bachmann Prize to Tilman Rammstedt - (Found July 2, 2008 )

They've announced that Tilman Rammstedt is the winner of this year's Bachmann Prize, the German literary competition where authors have to read their work aloud and get judged on the spot.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fp4

The age of the disposable book - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Twelve-publisher Jonathan Karp writes about Turning the Page on The Disposable Book in The Washington Post.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fp5

Konrad George interview - (Found July 2, 2008 )

At hlo Thomas Orszag-Land interviews Konrad George, in "Don't tell mummy, she might get upset".
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fo9

Pakistani fiction - (Found July 2, 2008 )

In the Times of India they find that Pakistani fiction makes its mark.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fp1

New Murray Bail novel - (Found July 2, 2008 )

A new Murray Bail novel, The Pages, is out, at least in Australia.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fp2