August 2020 translation news roundup

Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translator Michele Hutchison were awarded the 2020 International Booker Prize(opens in a new tab). At age 29, Rijneveld is the youngest author ever to win the Prize.

U.K. teachers and poets worry about dropping the poetry requirement for secondary school graduation(opens in a new tab) next year.

Book promotions and author events in California(opens in a new tab) have taken a hit during the pandemic.

Bay Area literary events go virtual(opens in a new tab) this fall.

For #WITMonth, five poetry collections by women in translation(opens in a new tab).

And 9 translated books by Black women writers to read this #WITMonth(opens in a new tab).

And another list of 10 outstanding Japanese women writers(opens in a new tab).

Maria Dahvana Headley’s new translation of Beowulf brings the poem to profane, funny, hot-blooded life(opens in a new tab).

The best Arabic novels available in English(opens in a new tab).

Love and courage, or on being a literary editor in today’s Istanbul(opens in a new tab).

From playwright and translator Jeremy Tiang, a World Voices Festival reading list(opens in a new tab).

A world champion slam poet pivots to medicine(opens in a new tab).

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) sat down with editorial director CJ Evans(opens in a new tab) to talk about the work of Two Lines Press and the Center to bring great literature in translation to new audiences.

English has its own music(opens in a new tab): a conversation with translator of Hungarian and Mongolian Ottilie Mulzet.