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February, 2013
The Week in Translation
GO Readings what: Jack Kerouac's Bilingualism: A Panel Discussion when: Monday, February 18, 6pm where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall, New York, NY more info: http://ow.ly/hPfix what: The Bridge Series: Stephen Snyder & Allison Markin Powell when: Thursday, February…...
Sebald and the Old Masters
Until last year, I had never read a word of W.G. Sebald. So far I have read only Vertigo, his first work, and The Rings of Saturn, but I have greatly enjoyed not only the beauty, grace, and dry humor of Sebald’s language but the echoes of Proust, Kafka, Poe,and Bruno Schulz that it contains. Both…...
Book Review: “Nazim Hikmet: The Life and Times of Turkey’s World Poet”
In the soon-to-be-published biography Nazim Hikmet: The Life and Times of Turkey’s World Poet, poet Mutlu Konuk Blasing shows a thorough knowledge of both the poet’s work and its cultural context. English readers have Konuk Blasing to thank for her collaborations that have made Hikmet’s…...
Translation Roundup
READ Honors and Awards Congratulations to this year's Caldecott and Newberry Medal winners! Interviews, Articles, Reviews Check out the new, multi-media Untranslateable Words Database. Three Percent calls Naoki Inose and Hiroaki Sato's biography of infamous Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, Persona,…...
Messages from Mexico
Published in January by Small Beer Press, Three Messages and a Warning brings together thirty-four of what the editors call “contemporary Mexican short stories of the fantastic.” Each of them is freshly translated, and many of the authors have never appeared before in English. The collection,…...
The Week in Translation
GO Events what: Mellon Visiting Artist Talk with Paul Muldoon when: Wednesday, February 6, 7pm where: Italian Academy/Casa Italiana, New York, NY more info: http://ow.ly/hp8s7 Workshops what: The Art of Literary Translation: A Workshop in Paris, with Alyson Waters when: June 23-July 19, 2013…...
January, 2013
From the Translator: On Translating Bangla Literature
I translated my first story when I was thirteen. It was done for purely altruistic reasons: I’d read a fabulous sci-fi story by Robert Sheckley called The Odor of Thought and wanted my best friend to read it, too. Her English was shaky and she declined. The only way for her to read it, I figured,…...
The Translator Relay: Ross Benjamin
Our "Translator Relay" series features a new interview each month. This month's translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. This month, Peter Constantine passed the baton to writer and German translator Ross Benjamin, a 2003-2004 Fulbright scholar, 2010 winner…...
The Week in Translation
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what: Fledge: A Tribute to Stacy Doris
when: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
where: St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, NY
more info: http://ow.ly/haBW8
Translation Roundup
READ Honors and Awards Congratulations to Sharon Olds, this year's winner of the UK's TS Eliot Prize, for her poetry collection Stag's Leap! Check out the International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist, which includes several young novelists. The winner will be announced April 23 at…...
From the Translator: From অপেক্ষা (Opekkha) to Waiting
When I was sixteen, I joined a flood-relief expedition organized by the Red Cross. In the north of what was then East Pakistan, the Jamuna – the local name for the Brahmaputra river – had flooded. With a government rest house in Sirajganj close to the riverbank as our base, we spent the week…...
The Restoration of “Solar Throat Slashed”
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, the best-known work of the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, appeared in book form in 1947. A year later Césaire published Soleil cou coupé, an extraordinary collection of seventy-two poems. In this book, writes A. James Arnold in the introduction…...
The Week in Translation
GO what: The Bridge Series: WWB contributor Idra Novey and Johnny Lorenz in conversation with Barbara Epler on Clarice Lispector when: Wednesday, January 23, 7pm where: The Center for Fiction, New York more info: http://ow.ly/gZZSM what: Inspirations with Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage when: Sunday,…...
Translation Roundup
READ Honors and Awards Congratulations to the five novelists on the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist, including WWB contributor Musharraf Ali Farooqi. The winner will be announced March 14th! Interviews, Articles, Reviews "Why break a language? To wake it up," writes poet, translator, and WWB contributor…...
The City and the Writer: In Bethel, Maine with Richard Blanco
If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains. …...
The Neighborhood Gangster
Christian Dumoux was born around 1950 and grew up as a mixed-race child in Madagascar. He went on to live in Benin, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Chad before moving to Paris. Dumoux’s memoir Une enfance malgache, published in French in 2005, is one of the few available from that island country. He…...
The Week in Translation
GO what: Whit Griffin and Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi when: Monday, January 14, 8pm where: St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, NY more info: http://ow.ly/gNmpC what: Asymptote celebrates its 2nd Anniversary with Global Launch when: Tuesday, January 15-Thursday, January 25 where: Barcelona…...
From the Archives: Moving Around Me
To whom does the story of the Haitian earthquake belong? Whose is it to tell, and in what form? Haitian writer and longtime Montreal resident Dany Laferrière was in Port-au-Prince for a literary festival when the quake struck. His "The World Is Moving Around Me," from our November 2011 issue…...
Translation Roundup
READ Interviews, Articles, Reviews In the latest Circumference podcast, Montana Ray speaks to Yusef Komunyakaa, Goutam Datta, and Subodh Sarkar about an anthology of African American poets, edited by Datta and translated into Bengali: Ami Amar Mritur Por Sadhinota Chai Na (I Do Not…...
December, 2012
Just in Time for the Ball Drop…
Here are some of our favorite books in translation from 2012! Emma Garman My pick is Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua, trans. by Mitch Ginsburg, an engrossing story about chance, fate and identity. Told from the dual points of view of an upwardly mobile Israeli Arab lawyer, and a young Palestinian…...
The City and the Writer: In Paris with David Foenkinos
If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains. …...
Literary Journeys Through Catalonia: A Trip Through El Camp de Tarragona
“Beyond the shadow of a doubt certain natural artefacts have a density, a mystery, an intensity we often find in works of art.” …...
Auld Lang Anxiety
New Year’s Eve is the perfect time to take stock of your life. As some of our writers show, that’s not always a good thing. Is there any holiday more confounding than New Year’s Eve? The expectation to have fun is steely and relentless, but all the avenues of pleasure are too crowded…...
The Translator Relay: Peter Constantine
Our "Translator Relay" series features a new interview each month. This month's translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. This month, Katherine Silver passed the baton to Peter Constantine, an award-winning polyglot whose honors include The PEN/Book of the Month…...
The City and the Writer: In New York City with Patrick Rosal
Special City Series / New York City 2012 If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains. …...
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