Literature in Translation
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December 9, 2020 |
Photo by Wendy Call / www.wendycall.com Extended Deadline for Applications: Monday, February 1, 2021 Call for Applications: Two series co-editors, one with expertise i... -
December 6, 2020 |
Since 2003, Jessica Cohen has published over twenty books translated from Hebrew to English. Among other honors, she shared the 2017 Man Booker International Prize with author David Grossman for... -
October 27, 2020 |
Ari Larissa Heinrich / Photo by Tara Pixley Ari Larissa Heinrich is the translator of Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Me... -
April 27, 2020 |
Statue of Ramos at Ponta Verde beach, Maceió, Brazil / Wikipedia In her new translation of Graciliano Ramos’s São Bernardo, forthcoming early next month from New York Rev... -
December 10, 2019 |
In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pieces by trans...
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