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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's better than referring to him as 𝐾𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑧𝑛𝑎-𝑤ℎ𝑜 ?-𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑖, right ? koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10...

Publisher flooded with orders after relatively unknown Hungarian author wins Nobel Prize for literature

When the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced on Thursday night, bookstores here scrambled for Korean-language copies of László Krasznahorkai's works. However, one Korean publisher, Alma Books, has...

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 2d

Local library book sale today, my $25 haul. Mainly unexpected stuff, which is fine; the Mahler CDs are LP-replacements, not first choice re. recordings but should do. (And I suspect I have the Dalkey Archive edition of the Sarraute .....)

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 2d

On the one hand, somewhat disappointed they didn't go with the original title ('Anti sapiens'); on the other hand, very relieved they didn't go with the original cover.

M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 2d

New review: J.M.Lee's 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ www.complete-review.com/reviews/kore...

Artificial Truth - J.M.Lee

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Artificial Truth by J.M.Lee.

www.complete-review.com

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 3d

These look great ! And despite slim size (basically: 100 pp) they manage to 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 — on the spines !

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 3d

In the mail: much-missed Kurodahan Press published several Japanese works inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ (scroll: www.kurodahan.com/wp/e/catalog...) and now @honfordstar.bsky.social gives us some South Korean takes in a 'Lovecraft Reanimated'-trio honfordstar.com/collections/...

Lovecraft Reanimated

The Lovecraft Reanimated project features leading Korean speculative fiction writers reimagining the works of horror master H.P. Lovecraft. While honoring his eerie, grotesque imagery and the blurred ...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d

Would love to hear Dominic at parties.

"So what do you do?"

"I'm an academic who specialises in killing children in British fiction"

Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · Jan 21

My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social.

'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social.

sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...

Book cover with title 'Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit' by Dominic Dean. Cover image shows a seafront promenade with beach huts during dusk, with a sunset.

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 4d

In the mail: appropriately enough, on Nobel-announcement-day, a Nobel laureate ARC — Halldór Laxness' 𝐴 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒, coming 2/2026 from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social archipelagobooks.org/book/a-paris...

A Parish Chronicle - Archipelago Books

From Iceland’s Nobel laureate, an essayistic tale of the unlikely miracles that return a church—fated to disappear over & again throughout time—to the same hillside 1882. In the still of morning, Ólaf...

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta admire literary prizes that aren't afraid of the competition, making announcements on Nobel-day: @littranslate.bsky.social literarytranslators.org/the-2025-nat... and Austrian Book Prize oesterreichischer-buchpreis.at both announce their shortlists today.

ALTA

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 4d

Nobel-laureate Krasznahorkai's archive (his "Vorlass") is at the Austrian National Library — "84 Archivboxen, 12 Kisten" www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/l... Including some of his diaries, apparently:

Some pages from Nobel laureate Krasznahorkai László's diaries.

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 4d

Krasznahorkai Nobel-win coverage at the Literary Saloon updated www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi... I think that should do it for today .....

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

www.nobelprize.org

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 4d

Suspect that they'll extend the Krasznahorkai-exhibit at the FMC femuz.hu/en/time-and-... (Was due to close on the 26th.)

Krasznahorkai László - Time and time again

László Krasznahorkai’s narrative universe

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 4d

Pleased to see the very worthy Krasznahorkai get the Nobel Prize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter... First batch of linkage up at the Literary Saloon www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

www.nobelprize.org

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 5d

Of course ... www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/hawa...

Hawai‘i State Library Bans Displays For Banned Books Week

The state librarian says the new guidelines help people avoid any confusion that the library is banning books.

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 5d

Would be a great choice.

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 5d

New review: Barbara Pym's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑒𝑑 www.complete-review.com/reviews/popg...

The Sweet Dove Died - Barbara Pym

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym.

www.complete-review.com

M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d

Not for the first time, I see — www.nyrb.com/products/the... — but still .....

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Now a motion picture starring Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins, and Bradley Whitford, and directed by Jon Avnet.

www.nyrb.com

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d

Even @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social does the "Movie Tie-In Edition" thing, abandoning the usual cover-template ?!?? www.nyrb.com/products/the...

The Summer Book (Movie Tie-In Edition)

The Summer Book film, starring Glenn Close and directed by Charlie McDowell, will have its theatrical release on September 19, 2025 In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—i...

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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 6d

We are pleased to announce a celebration for our 100th title:
SchrummSchrumm, or The Sunday Quicksands Excursion by Fernand Combet. Marc Lowenthal will be joined by translators Erik Butler, Margaret Carson, Kit Schluter, Doug Skinner
Aeon Bookstore 151 E Broadway, NY, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d

(Somewhat) easier to find her plays in English (and there's even a recent bilingual ed. of them www.bolchazy.com/The-Plays-of...) but this Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library ed. is the: "first complete translation of Hrotsvit into English". Very exciting !

The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim: Bilingual Edition

Hrotswitha of Gandersheim Bilingual,,The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim: Bilingual Edition,978-0-86516-783-4,Latin,Classical,

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d

Been especially looking forward to the latter since this review of Sarah Raich's Hrotsvit-novel 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑡 taz.de/Roman-ueber-... complaining about how hard it is to find her work is in German.

Roman über erste Dramatikerin der Welt: Rätselhafte Hrotsvit

Sarah Raichs Roman „Hell und laut“ erzählt von Hrotsvit von Gandersheim. Die erste deutsche Dichterin hat im 10. Jahrhundert dem Patriarchat getrotzt.

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d

In the mail: fantastic duo of bilingual-text @harvardpress.bsky.social titles: the new Loeb ed./translation of Plato's 𝐸𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑢𝑠 • 𝐺𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑠 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... as well as the eagerly-anticipated 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑠𝑣𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑚 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Euthydemus. Gorgias — Harvard University Press

Socrates against sophistry.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and ...

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d

Finalists for (US) National Book Awards announced www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced

Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature

www.nationalbook.org

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 7d

Most recent review was of the new novel by Wolf Haas, and am amused to see him in good company in this foreign-rights-attempted-sales-job for a book by another author www.kiwi-verlag.de/verlag/right... If this were true, I'd be all over this — but I fear they're promising more than it can deliver.

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 8d

New review: Wolf Haas' 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝐶𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑖𝑡 www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust... due out in English 4/2026. (A finalist for the Prize of Leipzig Book Fair this spring, and longlisted (and still in the running) for the Austrian Book Prize.)

Short Circuit - Wolf Haas

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Short Circuit by Wolf Haas.

www.complete-review.com