Translation Database Update
It’s been a while since I last posted an update of the 2008 Translation Database (full spreadsheet available via that click, complete with sheets breaking this down into country, language, and publisher). Not a lot different from last time I put this online, although it’s now up to 215 titles for 2008 from 54 ...
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Reading the World 2008: The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Following on yesterday’s post, here’s the second round-up of this year’s twenty-five Reading the World titles. Since The Post-Office Girl was reviewed in today’s NY Sun by Eric Ormsby it seems like the perfect book to feature next. Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 into a wealthy and privileged ...
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It's Here!
The next few weeks of my life are now totally booked . . . I mentioned this in passing yesterday, but the titles for the five parts are pretty intriguing: “The Part about the Critics,” “The Part about Amalfitano,” “The Part about Fate,” “The Part about the Crimes,” and ...
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Kalima Update
From Ed Nawotka’s article in today’s PW Daily: Last year the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) of the United Arab Emirates launched “Kalima,” a project to translate books into Arabic; its stated aim was to translate 100 works. Late last month, the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin ...
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Reading the World 2008: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi
Since Reading the World 2008 is almost here—it technically runs through the month of June, when bookstores across the country display twenty-five translated titles (warning pdf) from fifteen different presses—I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight each of these books on the site. And there’s no ...
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Guardian World Literature Tour: Hungary
There really should be a RSS feed, or weekly summary, or title list recap, or something for the comments section of this Guardian blog feature. Every month the Guardian and its readers discusses literature from a particular country. Last month it was Germany, this month Hungary. And every month we post about this, make ...
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The Most Anticipated Galley of the Year?
I’ve been checking my mailbox every 5 minutes, hoping that this strange ritual will result in a ARC of Roberto Bolano’s 2666 mysteriously appearing . . . It’s interesting to see how many posts have popped up about this galley. The most recent is from Michael Orthofer, who recaps some of the others and ...
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