Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun WilliamsNews, Reviews, and Interviews Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conver…
Translation
March 27, 2015
March 19, 2015Jane Hirshfield. Photo by Nick RoszaNews, Reviews, and InterviewsBrand new literary translation publisher Deep Velllum is picking up momentum. The publisher has just released the first of legendary Me…- March 12, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews March 8 was International Women’s Day. This list gives a brief background into the 13 women who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its start in 1901.…
February 24, 2015A Brief Stop: On the Road From Auschwitz by Göran RosenbergTranslated by Sarah Death. Other Press.After enduring the ghetto of Lodz, the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and many other t…-
February 17, 2015Mia Couto photographed by Shevaun Williams, October 2014.The Mia Couto short-story collection I’m currently translating, entitled Estórias Abensonhadas (working title: Selected S…
September 11, 2014Rioseco and Wray in the Puerto Madero harbor neighborhood of Buenos Aires.When I sat down with Chilean poet Marcelo Rioseco recently, we discussed topics of translation, poetry,…- January 23, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThis week, author Valeria Luiselli sat down with NPR to talk about why she chooses to have her work translated, despite being bilingual. (Luiselli’s forth…
- January 16, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe want to send our congratulations to all of the recipients of this year’s Hemingway Grant, recognizing excellence in French literature translation.Ahead…
- January 9, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn an announcement before the holidays, the Anton Chekhov Foundation revealed that it is working to translate over 500 of Chekhov’s earliest works into En…
- December 23, 2014Literary translation again filled the news in 2014. There were firsts to celebrate—the earliest-known Arabic stories were finally translated into English, and Deep Vellum Publishing, a new translation…
December 22, 2014in memoriam Kenny Kahn From the archive of Eugenia Huerta Bravo.A trio of important Mexican writers was born in 1914: Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, and Efraín Huerta. In the English-langu…- December 19, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsLibyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa was recently announced as one of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipients, and in an interview with NPR,…
- December 12, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsAn exciting new discovery was recently made in Northern China: a tomb, dated approximately 1,000 years old, contained no human remains, but was filled wit…
December 10, 2014Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is an excellent example of how children and the compelling worlds of science fiction mix together brilliantly. After all, the children of today are the leaders…
November 21, 20142014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia CoutoNews, Reviews, and InterviewsLast weekend, PEN International asked the international literary community to stand in solidarity a…
November 18, 2014“By staging their dialogue underneath the tarp’s camouflage, the play merges past and present.” Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography…
November 11, 2014“Celan as Translator,” our huge and astonishing job here, could be taken over totally by a brilliant book sitting next to me. But Celan als Übersetzer (1997), has 623 pages of not easy German…
November 7, 2014Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun WilliamsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsMaaza Mengiste spoke with Mantle contributor Emmanuel Iduma this week about her photogr…
November 4, 2014All Days are Night by Peter StammTranslated by Michael Hofmann. Other Press.After a car crash that leaves her husband dead and her own body disfigured, Gillian must put her life back together…
October 31, 2014Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt feather. Photo by Vanesssa Rudloff.Thank you to all of our readers who supported the 2014 Neustadt Festival last week! It was a wonderful celebration of Mia Couto and…
October 28, 2014Photo by Marsha Brockman/Flickr To say literary translation is to commit a pleonasm. All translation is intrinsically literary, in the same way every text is, at least for one of the three legs t…
October 14, 2014Colette as Le Petit Faune in Le désir, la chimère et l’amour at the Théâtre des Mathurins, Paris, 1906.Source: Little Penny Dreadful.Sometimes half the battle in translation is locating the r…- October 10, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsFrench novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Last week, Laila Lalami spoke to NPR about her new novel, The Moor…
- October 3, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsWriting for the Kenyon Review, Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa guides readers through the process of inspiration, translation, and writing poetry.The…
September 23, 2014Photo by Nèg FotoWhether you’re looking for a quick escape on your midday break or a quiet lunch with that always entertaining friend, literature, this list includes five short works of fiction t…
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