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What an honor and pleasure it was to be on the jury for this year’s National Book Award for Translated Literature. Our unanimous choice was Stênio Gardel’s The Words That […] Read more ...
What an honor and pleasure it was to be on the jury for this year’s National Book Award for Translated Literature. Our unanimous choice was Stênio Gardel’s The Words That […] Read more ...
I’m looking forward to reading tonight at the Blacksmith House in Cambridge MA. I’ll be reading a mix of poems and translations, and joining me on the double bill will […] Read more ...
The latest entry in “Postcards from Komiksoj,” Tobias Carroll‘s newsletter about comics and storytelling, is a terrific piece on Social Fiction. Here’s a taste: Social Fiction is a frequently chilling read, […] Read more ...
Speaking of Six Memos: though I’ve never attended the Frankfurt Book Fair myself, one of my sentences, from my translation of that wonderful book, made a rather grand appearance last […] Read more ...
My essay “Tuning In: On Retranslating Quotations” just appeared in a cool special issue of California Italian Studies, edited by Lucia Re and Anna Botta. The issue is called Calvino’s […] Read more ...
Several places—including Publishers Weekly, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times—ran round-ups of all the finalists for all the different National Book Awards. As Publishers Weekly noted, a […] Read more ...
My thanks to Naoko Fujimoto for asking me to talk about my translation of Chantal Montellier’s Social Fiction, thus giving me a chance to do my Jack Handey impression: One […] Read more ...
Just saw they’ve posted a cover for Silvia Vecchini’s verse novel, Before Nightfall, which I recently translated from Italian for the NYRB Kids imprint. It looks good! Here’s a bit […] Read more ...
I’m so happy to see this terrific, thoughtful review of Montellier’s book by Lalami, who provides excellent context and analysis throughout. Here’s a snippet: The future that the French artist […] Read more ...
It’s a nice little write-up. As they note, the ten books on the list were originally published in seven different languages—specifically Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic, Korean, and Dutch. I […] Read more ...