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1 April: Barbara Frischmuth (1941-2025) | Tadeusz Bradecki Prize shortlist | Prix Émile Guimet finalists
2 April: Prix Jean d'Ormesson shortlist | Manga's beginnings | Tim Mohr

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       Prix Jean d'Ormesson shortlist

       They've announced the finalists for this year's prix Jean d'Ormesson -- an anything-goes prize for which the judges can nominate any books they want, old or new (though most of these are new); see, for example, the Livres Hebdo report.
       The winner will be announced 26 May.

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       Manga's beginnings

       At nippon.com Nakano Haruyuki takes: 'A look at how Japan's western urban center informed and inspired the world of manga in the twentieth century', in Osaka: Where Japanese Manga Began Its Meteoric Rise.

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       Tim Mohr

       Translator-from-the-German Tim Mohr has passed away; see, for example, Europa Editions' Executive Publisher Michael Reynolds' note In Memory of Tim Mohr.
       Quite a few of his translations are under review at the complete review, including Charlotte Roche's Wetlands, Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand, and several works by Alina Bronsky, including Baba Dunja's Last Love.

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       Barbara Frischmuth (1941-2025)

       Sad to hear that Austrian author Barbara Frischmuth has passed away; see, for example, the Residenz Verlag notice or the ORF report.
       Several of her works were published in translation by Ariadne Press -- and apparently are still in print; they look to be out of stock at Amazon (and Bookshop apparently can't be bothered to carry them), but should be available from the publisher directly; see, for example, the publicity page for her best-known work, The Convent School.

       (I only knew her slightly, but she had been a friend of the family since the earliest days of the Forum Stadtpark; apparently the first reading of her works -- some poems by the then-still teenager at a 'studio abend' at Forum Stadtpark -- were by my father and aunt in 1960 (see this Q & A); my dad and her (and Günter Peter Straschek) also founded and published the (hectographed) literary magazine reflexe in 1959/60.)

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       Tadeusz Bradecki Prize shortlist

       The new Tadeusz Bradecki Prize, awarded: "for an imaginative work published in English in the UK or in Europe, that crosses the borders between artistic disciplines, genres, subject matter and cultures", has announced (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) its six-title-strong shortlist
       Two of the titles are under review at the complete review: Tanja Maljartschuk's Forgottenness and Alejandro Zambra's Childish Literature.
       The winner will be announced 21 May.

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       Prix Émile Guimet finalists

       They've announced the finalists for this year's prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique -- though not yet at the official site, last I checked ....; see, for example, the Livres Hebdo report.
       The three finalists in the novel category are The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka and works by Yan Lianke and Sang Young Park.
       The winners will be announced 4 June.

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