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Atiq Rahimi was born in Afghanistan. Wrote in Persian (Dari) initially and then in French. Agree with @hayden that Syngue Sabour is no great shakes.

Tahar Ben Jelloun writes in French. Rachel Cusk isn't a contender. I've read Outline, and it's technically very crude. Every character thinks and talks in the same way etc. Basic flaws. Very poor as literature. Plus smug, pointless, humourless...

Poet, translator, essayist and literature professor Manuel Gusmão died today, at the age of 77. Non-paywalled obituary: https://www.tsf.pt/portugal/cultura/morreu-o-poeta-e-ensaista-manuel-gusmao-17311054.html

This is the likeliest outcome IMO.

Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood just out in PT-PT translation: https://www.wook.pt/livro/a-floresta-de-birnam-eleanor-catton/28487191

Coming very soon PT-PT translation of Annie Ernaux's Se perdre: https://www.wook.pt/livro/perder-se-annie-ernaux/28545365

So how was jail?

Just this: https://www.wook.pt/livro/a-loucura-de-deus-peter-sloterdijk/22245828 At the time I read this, I also read a few books by Zizek. In comparison Sloterdijk's book was denser (though not that much harder to read), with more purpose, and much better organised - none of the padding and...

It's childish garbage. The Moon and the Bonfires I liked very much. Particularly the way Pavese found just the right tone for the story - there's some very nasty stuff in there in terms of dire poverty and violence, yet the book never comes across as either shrill or too detached. Pater will...

I say this every year: if the SA was considering awarding a philosopher (which it isn't), then one of the names they'd be probably looking at would be Peter Sloterdijk.

Sorry. The publisher's website that I linked to makes it look like they're already selling.

And to our Brazilian friends: Dimitris Lyacos' Poena Damni is available in PT-BR. https://www.relicarioedicoes.com/livros/poena-damni/

I talked about independent publishers and forgot to post this: https://antigona.pt/blogs/noticias/novidades-2023 Antígona's list of new releases for 2023. Many compilations of essays and assorted nonfiction.

January 1. ?? Diaries of Exile (Yannis Ritsos) February 2. ?? The Vatican Cellars (André Gide) 3. ?? Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis) March 4. ?? The Moon and the Bonfires (Cesare Pavese) 5. ?? If on a winter's night a traveler (Italo Calvino) April 6. ?? Thirst (Amélie Nothomb) 7. ...

Couple new releases. PT-PT translation of Heinrich Böll's Group Portrait with Lady, already mentioned upthread, is available: https://www.wook.pt/livro/retrato-de-grupo-com-senhora-heinrich-boll/28595775 Translation of Jennifer Egan's latest novel...

Always a concern with small publishers. Bazarov, which I must have mentioned in here before, seems to have ceased any kind of activity little over a year after it opened. No new releases, website abandoned, FB page dead. I also remember in 2009 Edições Ahab picking as one of their first...

Elsinore may well have one of the best catalogues of 21st century translated fiction in Portugal right now. This imprint clearly has its specific niche in contemporary works. Planeta? In Portugal, Minotauro is an imprint of Almedina; it explicitly says so in my copy of Os Intérpretes. IMO...

This is a data dump of relevant releases from the past few months. It's very long even after a selection, so I'll try to organize it by original language. The second volume of the translation into PT-PT of Montaigne's Essais is currently being crowdfunded...

BTW I've been trying to get ChatGPT to write pr0n, but then I noticed the length of the prompts I was feeding it and realised I was the one writing the pr0n.

This is so true it hurts: