Chinese publishing is becoming more venal, more opportunistic, and more obsessed with the next Big Book. The entire industry seems to have a rather gross case of the  Franzens, and… Read more »

With China’s domestic book market booming, and spurred by the rabid demand for the work of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the nation’s publishing industry has set its sights on a… Read more »

A quick-and-dirty entirely individual mental rummaging through the titles and names indicates that things are looking good… Read more »

This year’s Nobel Laureate in literature, Chinese novelist Mo Yan, gave his acceptance speech to an assembled crowd in Stockholm on Friday. While the rich and prestigious prize is always… Read more »

Shocking news this week from Scotland: writing may not, in all cases, be a wildly lucrative vocation. David Robinson reports for The Scotsman on a recent speech author James Kelman… Read more »

Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize win has, unsurprisingly, precipitated a rights scuffle, with the Wylie Agency announcing at the Frankfurt Book Fair that they now represent all of Yan’s novels. A… Read more »

If you’ve ever experienced a powerful sense of dread while checking your bank balance after a night of drinking, this might make you feel better.
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News spread late last week that administrators in the village of Gaomi, China have been considering transforming the town into what one official called the “Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone” after… Read more »

In all the Mo Yan frenzy, you may have missed the news that another prize was handed out last week: the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize, a relative newcomer to… Read more »

The prize for the most ungracious response to Mo Yan’s Nobel win goes to… Read more »