Couple Quick BsAs Notes
(Now that I’ve cottoned on to the BsAs abbreviation for Buenos Aires, I want to use it as much as possible . . .) I have a number of roundup thoughts to write out over the next few days—and a rant about the U.S. Embassy that includes a picture from the Book Fair that will make any rational American ...
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Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
We posted about the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation when the call for submissions went out, and it was just announced that Kristin Dickinson (who did her undergrad work at the University of Rochester), Robin Ellis, and Priscilla Layne won for their collaborative translation of Koppstoff: Kanaka Sprak vom Rande der ...
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More from Buenos Aires
This city is exhausting. Way more so than New York. Even more than Barcelona. Dinner starts so late, and it’s the perfect setting to linger over a glass of wine chatting for hours . . . Then suddenly it’s two in the morning and the next round of meetings starts in just seven hours . . . Anyway, the past two ...
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A Brief Overview of Argentine Literature
Today was our first real day of meetings about Argentine literature. Essentially today we were given a history of modern and contemporary Argentine literature. And, of course, today was the first day I realized just how shitty my Spanish really is. Things started pleasant enough—we got a walking tour of literary Buenos ...
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Day One in Buenos Aires
I really like overnight flights within the same hemisphere. So much more civilized to eat dinner, fall asleep, and wake up in another country, without suffering from jet lag at all. (Buenos Aires is one hour ahead of New York . . .) Buenos Aires is a pretty amazing city. Reminds me a bit of Barcelona—although not ...
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Some LBF Coverage from American Booksellers
I just found this roundup from a delegation of American Booksellers who attended the London Book Fair. Not that extensive of a post, but there are a few interesting observations. First about the fair itself: The London Book Fair is an interesting counterpart to America’s Book Expo America. In the most critical ...
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We Just Crossed 200!
Thanks to the Knopf/Pantheon/Schocken catalogs that arrived today, we just crossed the 200 translation mark in the official 2008 count! Some good stuff coming out in the fall, including the next Sandor Marai book, Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann, a new novel by Ingo Schulze, and a retranslation of Kafka’s Amerika: ...
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