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M.A.Orthofer

     Michael Orthofer was born in Graz, Austria in 1964.
     He currently lives in New York.

     He founded the complete review in the spring of 1999, adding the site's weblog, the Literary Saloon, in the summer of 2002.

     Most of the archived material on the site is his work, as is all the new material.

     M.A.Orthofer on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MAOrthofer
     (M.A.Orthofer does not currently have a Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. page.)

     Books:

• The Complete Review: Eleven Years, 2500 Reviews - A Site History (aesthetics of resistance / press, 2010)

     Other publications:

• Islamic Law in a Modern Secular State - Shah Bano and Its Aftermath. Islamic and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol. 10-11 (1990)
• The Scientist on the Stage: A Survey. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 27.3 (Fall, 2002)
• Weighing Words Over Last Wishes. Poets & Writers (November/December 2003)
• Translations, Part 4. Context 17 (Spring 2005)
• Review: Old Filth by Jane Gardam. The Philadelphia Inquirer (13 June 2006)
• Review: The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami. The National (15 October 2009)
• A Conversation with Eshkol Nevo. World Literature Today (September-October, 2010)
• "Michel Houellebecq se replie complètement sur lui-même". Le Monde (2 September 2010) (English)
• A fundamental cosmpolitanism in Lomark and the Wieringerwaard: Contemporary Dutch Fiction from a Foreign Perspective. De Revisor Jaarboek voor nieuwe literatuur 1 (2010)
• Op-Ed: Less than a miracle: National Book Awards are dysfunctional -- but that’s nothing new. The Daily (22 October 2011)

     Video/audio:

• Literary Blogs and Their Influence. Book TV/C-SPAN (3 December 2004)
• Publishing and Selling Books in Translation. Book TV/C-SPAN (23 May 2005)
• Homesick: Eshkol Nevo in Conversation with Michael Orthofer. PEN World Voices Festival (29 April 2010)
• Michael Orthofer presents Kokoschkin's Journey. German Book Office Rights List video (December, 2010)

     Interviews:

• The Critical I: Six Questions for M.A. Orthofer at Critical Mass (21 August 2006)
• The Complete Review's M.A. Orthofer on Translations and the University of Rochester's Best Translated Book Award by Jeff VanderMeer at Omnvoracious (10 March 2010)
• Aby se o knihách mluvilo: Rozhovor s Michaelem A. Orthoferem by Jiří G. Růžička at A2 (3/2011) (Czech)
• "Persian literature still a strong and active literary culture" at the Iran Book News Agency (Persian) (10 December 2011)

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