October Translation News Roundup
Prizes
Maryse Condé will receive the New Academy Prize in Literature(opens in a new tab), the one-time would-be Nobel Prize in Literature stand-in.
The National Book Award Translation finalists(opens in a new tab) were announced.
Announcing the 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist(opens in a new tab).
The 2018 MacArthur Fellows(opens in a new tab) were announced, including author and translator John Keene.
News
Indispensable translator Anthea Bell passed away(opens in a new tab).
The October Words Without Borders Watchlist(opens in a new tab).
Major French literary critic Pascale Casanova died at 59(opens in a new tab).
Heather Cleary recommended four haunting books for the Halloween season(opens in a new tab).
Reading List
An interview with Kim Sagwa(opens in a new tab) in BOMB magazine.
A new issue from Words Without Borders—Rewriting Caste: Dalit Literature in Hindi(opens in a new tab).
James Wood on Dag Solstad(opens in a new tab).
An interview with Javier Marías(opens in a new tab) in The Paris Review.
An advance look(opens in a new tab) at Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Females at 3 Quarks Daily.
Six editors discuss “the stakes, challenges, and rewards of editing and translating premodern texts from the world’s great literary traditions.”(opens in a new tab)
Aviya Kushner on transliteration(opens in a new tab).
A review(opens in a new tab) of Cristina Rivera Garza’s latest book, The Taiga Syndrome.
Damion Searls on the hardest translation he ever did(opens in a new tab).
Events
November 7 | Prix Goncourt winner Éric Vuillard will be at the Jewish Community Library to discuss his book The Order of the Day, translated by Mark Polizzotti.
November 15 | Translator Marian Schwartz joins us at Green Apple Books on the Park to discuss contemporary Russian literature and her latest translation of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands.
November 27 | Poet and translator Jeffrey Yang will be at City Lights Bookstore(opens in a new tab), where he’ll be reading from new poems and his latest book.
November 29 | Eric Karpeles will discuss the work of Polish writer Józef Czapski(opens in a new tab) at City Lights Bookstore.
