Open Letter in the NY Times
A few weeks ago, Larry Rohter of the New York Times came up to interview just about everyone involved in Open Letter and the University of Rochester’s Literary Translation programs. The piece he was working on appeared in the paper over the weekend. So, if you’re curious what we’re doing up here, and if ...
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The Rumpus International Rivers Interviews
The International Rivers Interview Series was born of two unrelated events. The first was a Roni Horn exhibit I saw some years back in New York featuring the work Still Water (The River Thames, For Example). Horn framed multiple close-up shots of the Thames passing through central London and approached the river with a ...
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Running
Jean Echenoz’s Running is a fictional investigation of the life and athletic genius of Emil Zátopek, a Czech long-distance runner who is widely regarded as one of the great runners of the 20th Century. The novel opens in World War II, with the German invasion of Moravia. Emil, a teenager at the time, is working at ...
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Latest Review: "Running" by Jean Echenoz
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by our own E.J. Van Lanen on Jean Echenoz’s Running, which was recently released by The New Press in Linda Coverdale’s translation. Personally, I’m a big Echenoz fan—especially of his earlier noir-detective books like Cherokee—and this is ...
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Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 Nominations
The nominations for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 were announced yesterday: Denmark Peter Laugesen Fotorama (Photorama) Poetry collection, Forlaget Borgen 2009 Ida Jessen Børnene (The Children) Novel, Forlaget Gyldendal 2009 Finland Sofi Oksanen Puhdistus (Purge) Novel, WSOY 2008 Monika ...
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German Book Prize Shortlist
The German Book Prize announced their shortlist a few weeks ago, and signandsight.com now has English excerpts available. Here’s the list: Rainer Merkel: “Light Years Away” (Lichtjahre Entfernt), S. Fischer Verlag Herta Müller: “Everything I Own I Carry With Me” (Atemschaukel), ...
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