World Book Day

In honour of World Book Day today, April 23rd, we thought we'd step out of our English-speaking world and do a round-up of all the short story collections in translation that we have reviewed over the past 4 and a half years... Pick something you might not otherwise read and take a look... Happy World Book Day!

A Happy Man by Axel Thormählen

A Life on Paper: Stories by Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud

Best European Fiction 2010 edited by Aleksander Hemon 

 

Best European Fiction 2012 edited by Aleksander Hemon

 

Best Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant

The Book of Istanbul edited by Jim Hinks and Gul Turner

Blue Has No South by Alex Epstein


The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo

Crimini: The Bitter Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction edited by Giancarlo de Cataldo

Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Various Authors      

Gaza Blues by Etgar Keret and Samir el-Youssef

Gregory and Other Stories by Panos Ioannides

The House of Your Dream edited by Robert Alexander and Denis Maloney

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Life and Memoirs of Dr. Pi and Other Stories by Edgar Bayley

Life is a Dream by Gyula Krúdy

Loud Sparrows: Chinese Contemporary Short-shorts selected and translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt

The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim

Midnight Convoy and Other Stories by S. Yizhar 

Paris Metro Tales translated by Helen Constantine

 

Passport to Crime by Various edited by Janet Hutchings

Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women edited by Jo Glanville 

 

Tales of Galicia by Andzrej Stasiuk

There Once Was A Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The Third Shore by Various

Travelling Light by Tove Jansson

Exciting Times: World Book Day & Small Press Month, and some congratulations

Today, March 5th, is World Book Day, and March is Small Press Month. So - what are you reading right now? The screen of your mobile phone? Your friends' Facebook updates? Nothing at all? Come on, get to it, there is so much to read that if you start now, you might just scratch the surface of great writing.

If we're talking about short story collections, the small press and independent publishers are the wonderful, brave and inspiring souls keeping the industry afloat. They publish what (foolish) others won't, simply because of length, and they also take risks with writing that is adventurous, experimental, different. Don't just applaud - read a small press book today! To see what we've reviewed on The Short Review, visit that section of the Categories page.


Congratulations to Tobias Wolff who has won the $20,000 Story prize for his collection, Our Story Begins. His short story, Bullet in the Brain, is the sort of astonishing writing that has stayed with me for all the years since I first read it. Congratulations also to runners up Jhumpa Lahiri’s best-selling Unaccustomed Earth (which we reviewed here) and Joe Meno’s Demons in the Spring.

What are you waiting for? Stop reading this blog, and go fondle a book.