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What is San-Antonio all about ?
(Click to enlarge) Does the word cloud above provide an answer to the question asked in the title of this post ? And is that of any use to anyone? The cloud is based on the titles from the 175...
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Yellow Cover Series in Argentina: Editorial Tor (Buenos Aires)
Georges Simenon, Maigret in Nueva York, Buenos Aires, Editorial TOR, Serie Amarilla. Policial, aventura y misterio, 1952 In the 1940s and 50s, the Argentinian publisher Editorial Tor brought out a...
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“Hello, this is Edgar Wallace speaking” – The Rialto Film Series
By Annika Breinig “Hallo, hier spricht Edgar Wallace,” are probably the first words that come to German minds, when they hear the name of the British author. Those lines introduce each film in a...
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The Executioner’s Tears in Ukraine
Frédéric Dard, Le Bourreau pleure, in Cherchez la Femme, Raidyga, Kiev, 1993 (With thanks to Didier Poiret) Translated and published anarchically in post-communist Russia, Frédéric Dard’s award...
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Crime Fiction In Catalan: 2 From the Civil War until Today
By Dr Stewart King, Monash University The development of crime fiction in Catalan from the Civil War until today has been shaped by two major historic events: the Franco regime (1939-1975) and the...
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Agatha Christie’s translations in Finland
Images and bibliography courtesy of Ilari Haapasalo Agatha Christie’s books are translated into more than 100 languages. The World’s Bestselling Author, she sold, according to the Guinness Book of...
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Karim Miské comes to Belfast – Tues 9 June, 20:30
Karim Miské won the 2012 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s most prestigious award for Crime Fiction with Arab Jazz, his debut novel. Now released in the UK by Quercus, Arab Jazz, translated...
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Colección El Séptimo Círculo: The first 120 Titles
(Click to enlarge) The first 120 volumes in the Seventh Circle (Septimo Circulo) series were selected by Borges and Bioy Casares, both practitioners and very well- informed observers of the crime...
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Curiosa in Russia
With thanks to Didier Poiret The two editions of this book (one published in 1992 and the other in 1994), a Russian translation of two novels by Frédéric Dard (Cette mort dont tu parlais & C’est...
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“L’Homme de l’Avenue”: a Russian edition
(Courtesy of Didier Poiret) This is another of the Romans de la nuit published in Russia : L’Homme de l’avenue. This edition is from 1995. Filed under: Translation Tagged: Frédéric Dard
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Arsène Lupin in America
Maurice Leblanc, The Blonde Lady , New York, Doubleday, Page & Company (1928) One of the most successful characters of French Crime fiction worldwide, Arsène Lupin was introduced to French...
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Crime Fiction in Greece
Giannis Maris, Crime In Kolonaki, Pechlivanidis, 1955 By Nikos Filippaios (PhD candidate, University of Ioannina, Greece) Crime fiction in Greece is characterized, on the one hand, by the strong...
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Israeli crime Fiction ; judgment and illustration with Dror Mishani
(Dror Mishani, The Missing File, 2011) By Stewart King, Monash University Never read an Israeli crime novel? Inspector Avraham Avraham – the protagonist of three novels by Israeli author Dror Mishani...
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Troubles trash abroad
By Daniel Magennis, M.A. Candidate, Queen’s University, Belfast Thrillers which take Troubles-era Ireland as their subject matter form a distinct genre in their own right. The Troubles Thriller, or...
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Early French Crime Fiction in America
Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, Fantômas , Marcel Brentano’s, 1915 The Circulation of French language Crime Fiction in America starts with Gaboriau, and before him Vidocq (whose Memoirs, first...
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Piero Chiara in English
The first and to date only novel by Italian author Piero Chiara’s (1913 – 1986) to be translated into English The Disappearance of Signora Giulia (Italian: I giovedì della signora Giulia), tells the...
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Blood and Sex: Violence and sexuality in Greek crime fiction series of the...
By Nikos Filippaios (PhD candidate, University of Ioannina, Greece) Since its beginning, crime fiction in Greece has usually been distributed by publishers in multi-volume series. The first series of...
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Persian Nights in Translation
Frédéric Dard, Cette mort dont tu parlais (1957), 1393 With thanks to Didier Poiret The general title “Novels of the night” (romans de la nuit) describes some 30 French noir novels, published by...
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Crime Fiction in German
Crime Fiction in German (ed. Katharina Hall) is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the...
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Worlding Crime Fiction: From the National to the Global
CFP: ACLA conference (Utrecht, 6-9 July 2017) http://www.acla.org/worlding-crime-fiction-national-global Since Raymond Chandler published the “Simple Art of Murder” (1944), a distinction has been made...
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