On Translation
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October 28, 2014 |
Photo 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 th... -
October 14, 2014 |
Colette 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 th... -
September 23, 2014 |
Photo by Nèg Foto Whether 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 that... -
September 16, 2014 |
Photo: Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle via Wikimedia Commons Many works of Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta have formed the foundations of further artistic endeavors, including and beyond their... -
September 9, 2014 |
Kim Myung Won An impressive poet and experimental author in her own right, EJ Koh reflects on the many sources needed in order to translate Kim Myung Won’s poetry into English:... -
August 19, 2014 |
Slovene protestors dressed as zombies. Photo by Jumpin' Jack/Flickr With political elites in power who, many claim, were out of touch with the people, the small, Adriatic countr... -
August 12, 2014 |
By My Hand: A Commissario Ricciardi Mystery by Maurizio de Giovanni Translated by Antony Shugaar Gifted with the ability to see and hear the final moments of murder victims’ lives, a commissi... -
July 22, 2014 |
Kathleen Heil for Patricio Pron I don’t know when, exactly, I began to equate literary translation with the institution of marriage. But at some point I started to think t... -
July 15, 2014 |
Invisible Love by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Translated by Howard Curtis. Europa Editions. This newest collection of short stories from Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt examines the facets of love through a... -
July 8, 2014 |
The corner of Ipiranga at Avenue São João. Photo by Ricardo Romanoff With all eyes on the World Cup in Brazil and one semifinal due to be played in São Paulo’s Arena Corinthians on July... -
July 1, 2014 |
This October, Two Lines Press will release Baboon, the first book-length translation of Danish author Naja Marie Aidt. That story collection, Bavian, won the 2008 Nordi... -
July 1, 2014 |
Photo by Laura Taylor/Flickr I didn’t see her come in, but suddenly she’s there. She’s walking on the polished floor in her heavy boots. She’s long-legged. That’s the first thing I notice. It’s Satur... -
June 24, 2014 |
Conversations by César Aira Translated by Katherine Silver The Argentine story circulates around the conversations that permeate a small café. During one of these conversations, a gold Rolex... -
June 17, 2014 |
EJ Van Lanen. Photo by Anthony Schuber. Which is better, print or online? Which is more helpful to the cause of advancing translated literature, starting a publishing company or... -
May 27, 2014 |
Khachapuri. Photo by Robyn Lee Though the Republic of Georgia has a strong literary past, especially in the medieval era, the Soviet shadow and the country’s singularly difficul... -
May 20, 2014 |
Translator Mara Faye Lethem Today is the release date for Papers in the Wind, the English translation of Eduardo Sacheri’s Papeles en el viento (2011). Follow... -
May 13, 2014 |
As you’re building your summer reading lists, don’t forget these new translations. Seven Lives and One Great Love: The Memoirs of a Cat Lena Divani Konstantine Matsoukas, tr. (Europa Editions) W... -
April 29, 2014 |
Every month, new English translations appear. Here are three of April’s offerings. Navidad & Matanza Carlos Labbé. Will Vanderhyden, tr. (Open Letter) In Chilean writer Carlos Labbé’s short metafi... -
April 15, 2014 |
A Conversation with Don Bartlett A bookshop in Stavanger, Norway. Photo by Marie Guillaumet/Flickr In Norway, many bookstores carry a wide variety of translated fiction, noticea... -
April 4, 2014 |
Photo by Christopher Irwin/Flickr According to the translators of Maulana Hasrat Mohani’s ghazal “Silently, silently,” their translation “functions something l... -
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 25, 2014 |
The following four titles are new translations released this month and are ready to jump onboard your spring or summer reading lists. Stories Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, ... -
March 18, 2014 |
New 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... -
February 25, 2014 |
This February, take a trip through Europe’s dramatic past and present with these engrossing new translations. The Castle of Whispers by Carole Martinez tr. Howard Curtis Eur... -
February 18, 2014 |
A Conversation with Ross Ufberg Today is the release date for The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov’s scathing satire from Moldova. Born and currently living in Moldova, Lorchenkov is...
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