March 2019 Translation News Roundup
PRIZES
Announced February 28–so technically not March news–translator Martin Aitken was awarded the 2019 PEN Translation Prize(opens in a new tab) for his translation of Hanne Ørstevik’s Love.
The Nobel Prize for Literature(opens in a new tab) returns this fall, with prizes for 2018 and 2019 to be awarded.
The French-American Foundation 2019 Translation Prizes(opens in a new tab) were announced.
The first Uzbek novel translated into English won the EBRD literature prize(opens in a new tab).
The Man Booker International Prize(opens in a new tab) longlist is quite impressive.
Debut novelist Tommy Orange wins the PEN/Hemingway Award(opens in a new tab).
NEWS
Publishers Weekly considers The Plight of Translation in America(opens in a new tab).
The UK’s Prospect magazine writes in praise of the literary translator(opens in a new tab).
Translated fiction enjoys sales boom(opens in a new tab) as UK readers flock to European authors.
Harper Collins launches international imprint HarperVia(opens in a new tab).
Celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th birthday(opens in a new tab) at City Lights Books.
READING LIST
The New York Times(opens in a new tab) called Lord “a manic treatise on travel and transformation” that is “remarkably suspenseful and assured.”
Please Translate This(opens in a new tab), or, The Frustration of Wanting People to Read Your Favourite Untranslated Book.
“’In writing there is a kind of secret to it. So when you do the translating, you can catch the secret.'” Haruki Murakami(opens in a new tab) on the pleasures of translation.
Five Indonesian authors(opens in a new tab) you should read.
More praise(opens in a new tab) for João Gilberto Noll’s “surreal, audacious” Lord.
Entropy magazine(opens in a new tab) includes Lord on their list of February and March small press releases.
LitHub lists Lord as one of 5 books you may have missed in February(opens in a new tab).
Americans’ interest in what’s happening in the rest of the world is reflected in their growing appetite for foreign literature(opens in a new tab).
Bright is on Barnes & Noble’s list of 15 Newly Translated Novels You Need to Read in 2019(opens in a new tab).
EVENTS
April 3 | Bright book tour event at Brookline Booksmith, Boston: Translating Duanwad Pimwana: Translator Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Nina MacLaughlin(opens in a new tab)
April 4 | Bright book tour event at McNally Jackson (Prince St.), New York City: Mui Pookpoksakul in conversation with YZ Chin(opens in a new tab)
April 11 | Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich
April 16 | San Francisco Bright book tour event: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with author and translator Saskia Vogel and Laura Goode
