NYRB is pleased to announce that three of our titles have been shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize, awarded each year for a book-length translation from any language into English. The following books made the shortlist:

An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Elizabeth and Robert Chandler

Transit by Anna Seghers, translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo

Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov

Winners will be announced later in the summer. To read more about the 2014 PEN Literary Awards click here.

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s The Broken Road was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award, a British prize awarded annually by the Authors’ Club to an outstanding travel book.

New York Review Books publishes The Broken Road, the third volume of Leigh Fermor’s trek by foot across Europe, in the United States.

Last week, Coraline and Stardust author Neil Gaiman named James Thurber’s The 13 Clocks as his pick for The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Book Club.

Gaiman wrote the introduction for the New York Review Children’s Collection edition of The 13 Clocks, and in an interview with The Wall Street Journal said of the book, “There has never been anything like this before, and there will never be anything like this again…[Thurber] takes such delight in the words. It’s like it’s written by somebody who wants to infect you with his love of words. There are poems hidden in the text. There are places where it wanders into rhyme and out again. There are all of the invented words. The story itself is nonsense in the finest possible way.”

Read more of what Gaiman said about The 13 Clocks here.

There will be two book launches in Australia to celebrate the publication of the first English language edition of Tawainese writer Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre. The book’s translator, Ari Larissa Heinrich, will be present at each event to discuss the literary and thematic importance of Qiu’s last novel. See details and links to more information for each event below:

When: Sunday, June 15, 2014 at 3:30 PM* Where: Gleebooks in Sydney, Australia For more information about this launch, visit our event page here.

When: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 5 PM Where: Hares & Hyenas in Melbourne, Australia For more information on this event, go here.

*Presented in conjunction with the Department of Chinese Studies and the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

In the June 19, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn reviewed The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of the third and final leg of his journey across Europe by foot.

Mendelsohn writes, “When you put down The Broken Road you feel what [Leigh Fermor] himself felt on departing from Mount Athos…‘a great deal of regret.’”

Read the review in the June 19, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books or here.

Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern’s book, No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State appeared in the June 8, 2014 New York Times Book Review with a glowing review. Times reviewer Dagmar Herzog calls the work a “spare, elegantly argued book” and praises Sifton and Stern’s “luminously comprehensible” profile of the “intricacies of faith” in the lives of their subjects.

Look for the review in the June 8, 2014 New York Times Book Review or read it right here.

On Monday, June 9th, at 7:30 p.m., Greenlight Bookstore will host a panel discussion about BAM’s upcoming production of The Old Woman, adapted from a short story by Daniil Kharms, co-founder of the OBERIU.

OBERIU—the Russian abbreviation for “Union of Real Art”—was an early 20th century underground avant-garde collective founded by Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. The panelists are: Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich, translators of Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think; Mark Krotov, editor of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms; and panel moderator Ian Dreiblatt.

Greenlight Bookstore is located at 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. For more information, call 718-246-0200 or visit the Greenlight Bookstore website.

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank will be discussing the literature of the Great War with professor Christopher Winks and translator Richard Greeman at The Commons in Brooklyn on Thursday, June 5, 2014.

For information about the discussion and the panelists, visit the The Commons event page here.

NYRB Classics recently published Gabriel Chevallier’s novel of World War I, Fear and will be publishing Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován’s recently-discovered memoir, The Burning of the World, which follows the author to the front lines, in August 2014. In March 2014, our all-ebook imprint NYRB Lit published Traitor, Stephen Daisley’s novel about the Battle of Gallipoli.