April 2023 translation news roundup
Our monthly roundup of translation and publishing news, plus updates in literature and arts education you may have missed!
Prizes
The shortlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize(opens in a new tab) was announced this month. Find reading guides(opens in a new tab) for each of the six shortlisted titles here.
English PEN announced the 2023 shortlist for PEN Presents(opens in a new tab), an award for sample translations that aims to showcase and fund the work of emergent literary translators.
Mircea Cărtărescu’s novel Solenoid (opens in a new tab)(Deep Vellum), translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter, won the LA Times Book Prize for Fiction(opens in a new tab).
News
Through June 20, the American Literary Translators Association is accepting proposals for panels for its 46th annual conference(opens in a new tab), “The Place of Translation,” which will run from November 8-11 in Tucson.
Registration is open for Write the World: A Day of Translation(opens in a new tab), a series of virtual panels about literary translation organized by ALTA on May 23.
Hanna Leliv, Daisy Rockwell, Lily Meyer and Sawad Hussain were named as Princeton University’s translators in residence.(opens in a new tab)
Agnes Ahlander Turner, Merve Emre, and Enid Prasad were elected to Words Without Borders’ Board of Directors.(opens in a new tab)
Recommended Reads
Read our 2022 Impact Report to see how donors and supporters like you made a difference for authors, translators, readers, teachers, students, and our worldwide literary community last year.
Keep an eye out for new poetry and short fiction in Two Lines, our online journal, published every Tuesday this Spring.
Watchlists for new literature in translation from Asymptote(opens in a new tab) and Words Without Borders(opens in a new tab), including mentions of No Edges: Swahili Stories and The Red Book of Farewells.
In Foreword Reviews, Jeana Jorgensen(opens in a new tab) calls The Red Book of Farewells “a moving, uneasy, and artistic novel about growing up queer in a time of conflict,” wherein “dreamlike imagery blurs the lines between memory and fantasy.”
How the Oulipian writer Anne Garréta plays with form to explore “ideas about gender, consciousness and memory.”(opens in a new tab)
