January 2019 Translation Roundup
PRIZES
Finalists were announced(opens in a new tab) for the PEN Translation Prize and PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Etgar Keret wins the Sapir Prize(opens in a new tab), the most prestigious Israeli literary award.
Hungarian-born author Zsuzsanna Gahse wins the Swiss Grand Prix Literature(opens in a new tab) for her life’s work.
News
Research into a “linguistic time capsule”(opens in a new tab) in Argentina.
A new book periodical, The Tel Aviv Review of Books(opens in a new tab).
A new publishing powerhouse in Egypt.(opens in a new tab)
The Man Group will no longer be sponsoring(opens in a new tab) the Booker Prize and the Booker International Prize.
Amazon Publishing announces Amazon Crossing Kids(opens in a new tab), an imprint for children’s books in translation.
Reading List
A profile(opens in a new tab) of the science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem.
Heather Cleary recommends these haunting books in translation(opens in a new tab).
7 authors you read first in Two Lines.
Some recent speculative fiction in translation(opens in a new tab).
An Afghani writer considers what he may lose(opens in a new tab) by writing his family’s stories in English.
The Winter 2019 edition(opens in a new tab) of World Literature Today.
An early review(opens in a new tab) of Lord by João Gilberto Noll.
A great review(opens in a new tab) of Mina by Kim Sagwa.
Another review(opens in a new tab) of Mina: “imagine a twentysomething, female Thomas Bernhard…”
Can a translation be a masterpiece too?(opens in a new tab)
Events
February 11 | The structure of death, that we remain living in: Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman join us at San Francisco’s Green Apple Books on the Park to discuss Kim Hyesoon’s latest book, Autobiography of Death, translated by Don Mee Choi.
February 12 | Join translator Jeffrey Leong(opens in a new tab) at Green Apple Books on the Park for a discussion of the Chinese wall inscriptions at Angel Island. Check out our interview with Jeffrey Leong last year.
February 21 | Mexican-American author and translator Chloe Aridjis(opens in a new tab) will be at City Lights Bookstore to discuss her latest book, Sea Monsters: A Novel.
