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A blog for authors and translators, a place where authors talk about translations of their books and encounters with their translators and translators talk about authors and translations. The blog proposes a short interview, with questions already available on a special tab and translated into several languages, encouraging both authors and translators to talk about their work in their own language.

This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors, although some historical authors are represented. The website will continue to expand, adding additional authors, books and web resource

This project aims to recognize and analyse the intellectual legacy of British and Irish authors in the European cultural tradition. It examines the ways in which selected British and Irish writers in various humanistic disciplines have been translated, published, reviewed and discussed in Europe over the last few centuries. The project is being published under the title 'The Athlone Critical Traditions: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe', an open-ended, multi-volume series published by Continuum. Publications are listed from 2003 to the present and deal with the reception of several authors, including: Laurence Sterne; James Joyce; Walter Pater; Ossian and James Macpherson; D. H. Lawence; Sir Walter Scott; Jane Austen; Coleridge; Charles Darwin; Shelley; Byron; H. G. Wells; Jonathan Swift; David Hume; Yeats; and Henry James

This index lists, and links to, articles, essays, conference papers and other material on Scottish literature and language available free on-line. In the index, articles are listed by author, and by subject or title. The names of authors of articles are in CAPITALS. Subjects of articles (including names of writers) are in bold. Bulleted items are written by the same author(s), or about the same subject, as the entries they follow. The first link in an entry is to the text of the paper. The second link is to the journal or conference page where the paper was published or presented. Some links lead to other sites; these will open in a new window.You can search the index using the Find function (under the Edit menu). If you have trouble connecting to any of these papers, or if you would like to recommend a link, please contact ASLS.

The Austen Project pairs six bestselling contemporary authors with Jane Austen's six complete works: Sense & Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park. Taking these well-loved stories as their base, each author will write their own unique take on Jane Austen's novels. The Austen Project will launch with the release of worldwide bestseller Joanna Trollope's reimagining of Sense & Sensibility in October 2013, and will continue with Val McDermid's reworking of Northanger Abbey in Spring 2014 and Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride & Prejudice in Autumn 2014.

This Directory is intended to serve as a guide to the rich storehouse of Hebrew authors. Space limitations have imposed restrictions. Those who are included represent a first selection only; it was not possible to cover the entire range of writers working in the Hebrew language. It is our hope to update the Directory in future editions. Furthermore, information on published translations has been condensed in some cases, and works published in anthologies or literary journals have not been included. The writers in the Directory have been consulted as far as possible. We thank those who cooperated and apologize for any errors or omissions that have unwittingly occurred.

is a collaborative undertaking, involving participants from universities in Canada, the United States, England, and Australia. It is writing the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles. At the same time, it is conducting an experiment in humanities computing and providing both training and scholarly community for graduate students. The project will provide an overarching account of women's writing across the centuries. This will appear in the form of four individually authored volumes of history together with an extensive, collaboratively authored, electronic textbase

A bibliographical database of contemporary materials relating to works of fiction published in the British Isles during the early nineteenth century and Regency period. The database covers over 2,000 works by over 900 authors, including the likes of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.The database may be searched via a sophisticated search engine, or browsed alphabetically by author, title, or publisher. The results returned provide full bibliographic records for each specific work of fiction, including first edition details and any information about subsequent editions or translations during the period covered.

The Nineteenth Century English Novel Bibliogrpahic Resources webpage is a large bibliography on material published both in book and hypertext format for research in nineteenth-century novels. As well as texts on the internet, there are various websites about authors and literary movements. Beginning in the Romantic period with authors such as Jane Austen, Mary Wollestonecraft, Mary Shelley, William Cowper, William Blake, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth, the site works its way through the nineteenth-century, the largest section devoted to the Victorian novel.

This is a bibliography of literary studies, criticism and philology. It consists of c. 5,000 text files (290 Mb of text) listing over 250,000 items (books, book chapters, articles, films, websites, etc.), with a main focus on English-speaking authors and criticism or literary theory written in English, although there are many listings on linguistics, cultural studies, discourse analysis, and other philological subjects. It includes basic bibliographical information on several thousand authors, critical schools, literary and linguistic concepts, and other subjects.

the internet resource dedicated to new titles, new authors, and the general scoop on the book industry. Use this site to search book reviews, read about the latest releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events. Take a look around, bookmark this site, and stop back often; there are many new and exciting titles that await your discovery

The Oxford Text Archive hosts the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Centre for Literature, Languages and Linguistics, one of the five Subject Centres of the AHDS. The Archive holds several thousand digital resources of interest to researchers, teachers, and learners working across the range of literary and linguistic disciplines. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works, and a range of language corpora. Searches can be executed by author, title, or language, and other criteria will be added over time. Users can also use these criteria to browse the catalogue. The resource is freely available. The Archive also provides support for the creation and use of electronic texts, including guides to good practice, and advice and tools for using the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for encoding texts in SGML and XML. The Oxford Text Archive receives funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Description based

Everything you need to know about fiction books and authors, find complete author book lists (bibliographies), discover fiction books in a series, read descriptions of individual books, search over 270,000 fiction titles using multiple criteria, keep track of what you're reading

BookSpot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. From the site, quickly and easily find bestseller lists, book awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books, author and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and much more.

Archipelago Books is a not-for-profit press devoted to publishing excellent english translations of classic and contemporary world literature. Seeking to develop a wider audience for international fiction and poetry in the USA, Archipelago Books has been working in partnership with like-minded organizations hosting readings and events for authors and translators. The community around Archipelago is growing, thanks to the enthusiasm of booksellers, professors, librarians, translators, and our devoted readers. FB page at https://www.facebook.com/archipelagobooks

The Interpreter Diaries takes readers through the different phases of an interpreter's life and work, sharing details on everything from preparation for post-graduate training to testing at the institutions and beyond. The author of the Interpreter Diaries, Michelle Hof, is a professional conference interpreter and trainer. She works as a freelance interpreter (ACI) for the European Institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Spain.

The Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB), founded in 1963, is an event forum, guesthouse and workplace for authors and translators.

END is a bibliographic database based on the Collection of British and American Fiction 1660-1830 held by the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. When completed, the database will include records of more than 3,000 novels and fictional narratives by canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen as well as less well-known novelists like Mary Brunton and Mary Walker. Users will be able to perform both keyword and faceted searches across bibliographic records containing both edition-specific and copy-specific information about each novel.

PETRA brings together the initiatives and expertise of organisations active in the field of literary translation in Europe, on both a national and a transnational level: translators' and authors' organisations, literary organisations and networks, policy making bodies and organisations dealing with education, publishing and copyright.

Begun in 2007, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction. Currently, the database contains 8606 titles by 2555 authors (more statistics). The database is hosted by the Victorian Research Web, a major and free research resource for Victorian scholars.