Latest Review: Mafeking Road and Other Stories
E. J.‘s latest review is of Herman Charles Bosman’s Mafeking Road and Other Stories, which will be available in June from Archipelago. Bosman is widely regarded as “South Africa’s greatest short story writer” (see Wikipedia), although I don’t think he’s very well known here. ...
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Translations in the New York Times
We mentioned this a couple weeks back, but this morning, the Literary Saloon has a more factual follow-up to Douglas Kibbee’s claim that translations are on the rise, as evidenced by the increase in coverage for translations in the New York Times Book Review. Michael Orthofer—who both questioned the veracity of this ...
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Graduate Student Translation Conference Recap
This past weekend Columbia University (and the Center for Literary Translation) hosted the Graduate Student Translation Conference. E.J. and I were lucky enough to be there, and with so many great translators attending and events taking place, it’s worth recapping some of the activities. First off, in case ...
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Latest Review: The Have-Nots
Our latest review is of Katharina Hacker’s The Have-Nots, which won the German Book Prize for 2006 and was recently published by Europa Editions. Jeff Waxman—who also reviewed Elias Khoury’s Yalo at Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago and is currently very obsessed with Lost. (Who ...
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Archipelago Wins Miriam Bass Award
Congrats to Jill Schoolman and Archipelago for winning the Miriam Bass award. Carrying with it a $5,000 cash prize, this award is given for “creativity in independent publishing” during a ceremony at BookExpo America. This is very well deserved—Archipelago is one of the finest independent publishers in ...
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2008 Translations: Fiction
Following up on last week’s post about the Translation Database (downloadable version available via that same link), here’s the next set of capsule reviews of recently released and forthcoming literature in translation. (All previous posts and reviews available here.) Oliver VII, Antal Szerb, translated from ...
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
The schedule for the upcoming L.A. Times Festival of Books (which takes place April 26th and 27th) is now available online. There are a number of interesting panels scheduled, including: West Coast Publishing: Rethinking the Model Moderator: Mr. David L. Ulin Panelists: Mr. Eli Horowitz, Ms. Elaine ...
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