Left: Anne Portugal. Right: Pierre AlferiWithin the rather polemically suggestive title “Translating the Untranslatable” hides a wide array of opinion and diverging thoughts. In the world of poetry, a…
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On “Translating the Untranslatable”: Conversations with French Poets Anne Portugal and Pierre Alferi
May 14, 2014
May 13, 2014As you’re building your summer reading lists, don’t forget these new translations. Seven Lives and One Great Love: The Memoirs of a CatLena DivaniKonstantine Matsoukas, tr.(Europa Editions) …
May 9, 2014The Great Reading from Book Riot's Literary Tourism: Norman, Oklahoma piece. Photo: Wikimedia CommonsThis week, several of the links below examine the political pasts of countries around the world to…- May 2, 2014It was another great week, filled with announcements from various literary prizes. Below, we’ve provided links to announcements about the Best Translated Book Awards, the Lambda Literary Prize, and Or…
April 29, 2014Every month, new English translations appear. Here are three of April’s offerings.Navidad & MatanzaCarlos Labbé. Will Vanderhyden, tr.(Open Letter)In Chilean writer Carlos Labbé’s short metaf…
April 25, 2014This week was full of celebrations, once again. Though we said goodbye to Gabriel García Márquez, literary readers, writers, and publishers around the globe celebrated his exceptional life. We also ce…
April 18, 2014The newly released translation of Yuri Mamleyev's The Sublimes can be ordered with a 3D printed nylon doll.T. S. Eliot once described the month of April as the “cruellest month,” but we can’t…
April 15, 2014A Conversation with Don BartlettA bookshop in Stavanger, Norway. Photo by Marie Guillaumet/FlickrIn Norway, many bookstores carry a wide variety of translated fiction, noticeably…
April 4, 2014Photo by Christopher Irwin/FlickrAccording to the translators of Maulana Hasrat Mohani’s ghazal “Silently, silently,” their translation “functions something lik…
April 4, 2014Photo by Diane Cordell/FlickrThis week was a mix of news, commentary, and fun. Below, you’ll find stories on the very first ebook and a new reading list for poetry skeptics. And don’t forget to check…
April 1, 2014“Perhaps this approach to discussing the art of translation is not very different from the tradition of midrash, where the holy book is revisited again and again, so the years bring only more rich…
March 28, 2014Andrés Neuman autographing a book after opening night. Photo by Laura HernandezWe’ve been buzzing on the WLT Facebook and Twitter accounts all week with exciting reports from the 2014 Puterba…
March 25, 2014The following four titles are new translations released this month and are ready to jump onboard your spring or summer reading lists. StoriesJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis, …
March 21, 2014Andrés Neuman, the 2014 Puterbaugh Fellow, will be visiting WLT at the University of Oklahoma March 26-28th.All this week, we’ve been preparing for the Puterbaugh Festival, where we will be h…
March 18, 2014New Vessel Press recently released The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov’s scathing satire from Moldova. Born and currently living in Moldova, Lorchenkov is a laureate of Russia’s…
March 14, 2014Photo by Matt Douma. Neustadt juror Krys Lee is one of two authors honored with an American Academy of Arts and Letters, read more about Neustadt Prize-related news in the Neustadt Lit Links.This…
February 28, 2014Barricade with the protesters at Hrushevskogo street on January 26, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo Sasha Maksymenko/FlickrIt was an exciting week for both World Literature Today…
February 25, 2014This February, take a trip through Europe’s dramatic past and present with these engrossing new translations. The Castle of Whispers by Carole Martineztr. Howard CurtisE…
February 21, 2014Photo by Fake Plastic Breno/FlickrThis week’s lit links run the gamut of news: from new intellectual discussions to a campaign that wants to put poetry on the moon, we’ve got this week covered.…
February 18, 2014A Conversation with Ross UfbergToday is the release date for The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov’s scathing satire from Moldova. Born and currently living in Moldova, Lorchenkov is a…
February 14, 2014Photo by Georg Mayer/FlickrAs the world celebrates Valentine’s Day today, we’d like to celebrate our love for great literature. Find great stories, reviews, and news in the links below, and remember t…
February 11, 2014Photo by Eugenijus Radlinskas/FlickrThe image of translation as an essentially lonely business has slowly but surely given way to a fairer, more accurate picture. Even when a translated text bears the…
January 15, 2014The 3D printed cover to Chang-rae Lee's book On Such a Full SeaThis week we said goodbye with sadness to both Amiri Baraka and Juan Gelman, two poets who recently passed away. But we als…- January 10, 2014This week’s links are filled with both the positive and the negative. New books, new opportunities, and new discoveries make up this week’s positives, but great losses to language and literature simul…
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