New atlas of literature in/and translation -- members invited!

A new site run by PEN (the free speech network) is looking for users to join its community, adding author and book pages on literature from around the world. It's starting off with a focus on Arabic literature and will grow to cover the globe...

http://penatlas.org/online/index.php

The idea is to encourage readers to pick up more titles in translation, and to get English-language publishers branching out more.

There's a few hundred articles up already, but some are a bit stubby and there's lots of titles that are being talked about in this group that aren't up there yet. Rumour has it that the launch, in September, will include an exclusive interview with Alaa al-Aswany and possibly an excerpt from his new novel...