March 2021 Translation News Roundup

The 2021 International Booker Prize longlist(opens in a new tab) was announced March 30 and includes translations from Chinese, Georgian, Russian, Gikuyu, Arabic, and more.

The 2021 PEN America Literary Awards finalists(opens in a new tab) were also named; winners will be announced at the virtual ceremony on April 8.

The 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist(opens in a new tab) was announced earlier this month. The winner will be named July 7.

The National Book Critics’ Circle Awards(opens in a new tab) were also announced earlier this month.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters selected eight authors, poets, and translators for this year’s Arts & Letters Award in Literature(opens in a new tab).

Writer and translator Kate Briggs was won the 2021 Windham Campbell Literature Prize(opens in a new tab).

A debate in Europe around the choice of translators for poet and U.S. inaugural speaker Amanda Gorman(opens in a new tab) has exposed the lack of diversity in the world of literary translation.

San Francisco just launched a pilot guaranteed income program for artists(opens in a new tab).

The Paris Review has named a new editor(opens in a new tab), only the sixth in its history.

Elemental contributor and author Erika Kobayashi’s essay about her travels from Auschwitz to Fukushima(opens in a new tab) is up on LitHub.

Read an interview with author Marie NDiaye at the White Review(opens in a new tab).

Of the more than 7000 languages in the world, Google Translate can only handle 100 of them.(opens in a new tab)

Revisit a year of the Center’s virtual events.

The arts world hopes that new U.S. immigration policies will make international and cross-cultural collaboration easier.(opens in a new tab)

How to stop treating literature as self-improvement(opens in a new tab).

In the literature of contagion, how do plague stories end?(opens in a new tab)

How we absorb what we read depends on the format we read it (opens in a new tab)in.