March 2023 translation news roundup
Our monthly roundup of translation and publishing news, plus updates in literature and arts education you may have missed!
Prizes
Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra, tr. Christina MacSweeney, was a double-shortlisted finalist at the National Book Critics Circle’s awards(opens in a new tab) this year. The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize was awarded to Grey Bees(opens in a new tab) by Andrey Kurkov, tr. Boris Dralyuk (Deep Vellum). Congratulations!
The International Booker Prize released its longlist for the 2023, (opens in a new tab)including three original languages represented for the first time.
This month, shortlists were announced for the Dublin Literary Award(opens in a new tab), the Sheikh Zayed Book Award(opens in a new tab), and the EBRD Literature Prize(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.
The European School of Literary Translation is accepting applications to its virtual summer program(opens in a new tab), “Teaching Translation as an Ethical Practice,” through May 15.
Reading List
Keep an eye out for new poetry and short fiction in Two Lines, our online journal, published every Tuesday this Spring!
Nicolas Rinehart reviews Astrid Roemer’s On a Woman’s Madness, tr. Lucy Scott, for Words Without Borders(opens in a new tab)— and don’t miss this recording of Roemer discussing the novel with Megan Giddings!(opens in a new tab)
Two Lines Press’ dispatch from AWP 2023 in Seattle earlier this month, featuring book hauls and other recommendations from staff!
The Old Woman and the Typhoon(opens in a new tab) by Masatsugu Ono, author of At the Edge of the Woods, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter
A folio of Spanish-language fiction in translation(opens in a new tab), curated for the Yale Review by Idra Novey
