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Featured Audio and Articles
June 12: A Night of Fairy TalesScott Esposito, May 14, 2012 11:57:00 AM
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join us for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tartar take you deep into the dark woods with readings from classic and contemporary fairytales. And these aren't the fairytales you grew up with—they're the darkest, scariest tales you've ever heard! A reception with cash bar will follow the event.
If you can make it, definitely plan to drop by. This event is super affordable, and promises to be a memorable experience!
TWO VOICES: Novelist Sergio ChejfecScott Esposito, May 10, 2012 12:54:00 PM
In his Two Voices presentation on May 8, lauded Argentine author Sergio Chejfec started by explaining the biographical roots of his strange, compelling novel The Planets. The book is about an Argentine who goes missing during the military dictatorship of 1976-82, and Chejfec began by explaining that the plot of the book actually has to do with a friend of his who did disappear during the military dictatorship for the 1970s. He was one of an estimated 30,000 Argentines to disappear during that span.
TWO VOICES: Author Yiyun Li on Legendary Chinese Author Shen CongwenScott Esposito, April 14, 2011 11:13:00 AM
"I'm going to tell you a lot of love stories today," Yiyun Li said to begin her Two Voices event on the masterful Chinese writer Shen Congwen. Although little-known in the U.S., Congwen has been a hugely influential author on Li--as she declared during the event, Congwen's letters were one of the three books she brought with her when she emigrated from China to the United States in 1996.
Upcoming Events
Lit&Lunch: How to Translate Fairy Tales, with Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar
June 12, 2012
Contributors and the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, an anthology of fairy tales, discuss the unique craft of translating myth and the history of fairy tales.
A Night of Fairy Tales
June 12, 2012
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join the staff and friends of the Center for the Art of Translation for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Audio Entries
Stephen Snyder, Japanese Literature, and Banana Yoshimoto
Posted on May 16, 2011 by Scott EspositoIt's a bit of a slow day for news in the world of international literature, so I thought I'd revisit last week's Two Voices guest, Stephen Snyder. Via Google Book, I happened to discover this study of Japanese literature he co-wrote with Haruki Murakami translator J. Philip Gabriel called Ōe and beyond: fiction in contemporary Japan.
It happens to have an interestion section on Banana Yoshimoto, much of which is available for free online at the link. I bring this up since she's an author with more than a few similarities to Yoko Ogawa, whom Snyder discussed last week, plus because she has a new book available in English, the first in years, called The Lake.
Here's the opening to their section on Yoshimoto:
