Reclaiming North Korean Literature

by Shirley Lee

Engaging with ancient literature has its difficulties. Even if we put aside the unfamiliar details of cultural context, there remain factors such as genre, function, and form that can be daunting for the modern reader. The didactic genre is currently out of fashion (Vergil's bee-keeping manual…...read more »

The Week in Translation

by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

GO Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca…...read more »

Where Are the Women in Translation?

by Alison Anderson

I’ve never been good at math, or maybe I should say, I never liked math enough to be good at it, even if I did get the odd A in the subject in high school. So I don’t have a clue how to divide 3% by 26%, for example. I searched on the Internet, and found calculators that were very handy for…...read more »

The Week in Translation

by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca came…...read more »

From the Archives: Exiles

by Susan Harris

This month’s North Korean defectors join the numerous WWB contributors writing in exile. Most of April's Iraqi writers, many of November's banned Chinese writers, virtually all of our July and August 2011 Arab Spring authors, and many others write from countries not their own. Some are…...read more »

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: Palestinian Writers in Conversation

by Liel Leibovitz

The decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict has yielded many harrowing developments, but none, arguably, more absurd than the un-improvable bit of legal coinage that deemed a portion of Israel’s Palestinian residents as present absentees. The term applies to tens of thousands of…...read more »

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: “Bones will Crow”

by Andrew Seguin

To celebrate the publication of Bones Will Crow, an anthology of Burmese poetry, poets Zeyar Lynn, Khin Aung Aye and James Byrne joined Philip Howze for a conversation and reading at The Public Theater on May 5. Mr. Lynn and Mr. Aung Aye began by reading from their work in Burmese and English (Mr. Byrne…...read more »

The Week in Translation

by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca came…...read more »

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: The Translation Slam

by Elisa Wouk Almino

The Translation Slam has become a popular tradition in the PEN World Voices Festival, and this year’s event saw a full house at The Public Theater on Friday evening. For years it was held at the Bowery Poetry Club, which lamentably closed this past week. Host Michael F. Moore was clearly dismayed…...read more »

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: South Africa in Two Acts

by Seth Satterlee

Siphiwo Mahala set the stage for this engaging discussion of South African literature and media at the Cooper Union on Saturday with an opening brief on the political state of the country, focusing on freedom of speech rights.  The looming issue is a bill, already passed by both chambers of Congress,…...read more »

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Submit to Asymptote’s “Close Approximations: A Translation Contest”

by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

what: Asymptote Journal's Inaugural "Close Approximations: A Translation Contest"
contest judges: Eliot Weinberger (Poetry) and Howard Goldblatt (Fiction)
prize: $1,000 for 5-10 pages of poetry translated into English, or up to 25 pages of fiction translated into English
submission deadline: September 1, 2013
more info: http://ow.ly/ll3Ut

Published May 23, 2013

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This Month

Thu, 5/23

Submit to Asymptote’s “Close Approximations: A Translation Contest”
by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Wed, 5/22

Reclaiming North Korean Literature
by Shirley Lee

Mon, 5/20

The Week in Translation
by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Tue, 5/14

Where Are the Women in Translation?
by Alison Anderson

Mon, 5/13

The Week in Translation
by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Thu, 5/9

From the Archives: Exiles
by Susan Harris

Mon, 5/6

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: Palestinian Writers in Conversation
by Liel Leibovitz

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: “Bones will Crow”
by Andrew Seguin

The Week in Translation
by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: The Translation Slam
by Elisa Wouk Almino

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: South Africa in Two Acts
by Seth Satterlee

Sun, 5/5

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: Haiti in Two Acts
by Geoff Wisner

PEN World Voices Festival: Master Class with Eduardo Galeano
by Bud Parr

Sat, 5/4

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: A Literary Safari
by Andrew Seguin

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: Speaking in Tongues
by Seth Satterlee

Fri, 5/3

Mia Couto in Conversation with Anderson Tepper
by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Thu, 5/2

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: “Speaking in Languages on the Edge”
by Elisa Wouk Almino

PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch: “The Critic’s Global Voice”
by Mythili G. Rao

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