Obituary: Barbara Wright (1915-2009)
This is horrible news. From the Alma Books Bloggerel: John Calder called me this afternoon to give me the sad news of Barbara Wright’s death last night, after complications from a hip operation. Barbara was one of the greatest and most influential translators from the French, and was almost as instrumental as John ...
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Observer Translation Project
The Observer Translation Project is a relatively new website featuring news, reviews, and samples from and about Romanian authors. From the About Us page: We highlight a “pilot” author each month. This is the place to learn about Romanian writers, find updates on Romanian writing abroad, read CV’s, take a look at ...
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Harvard "Select Seventy" and Other Open Letter Publicity
I just found out last week that the Harvard Book Store selected The Conqueror by Jan Kjaerstad as part of its Select Seventy program. As implied by the name, this program consists of seventy books selected by booksellers and buyers—all of which are sold at a 20% discount for the month. Seeing any of our books on a ...
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Pictures from the Best Translated Book Party
It feels like the award party for the 2009 Best Translated Book Award took place ages ago, and although we posted about the two winners (Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut and Bartis’s Tranquility), we never actually put up any photos of the event . . . Monica Carter actually recorded the entire ...
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Anuvela Correction
I fixed the original post already, but in writing about Anuvela, I mistakenly said that this collective was made up of seven women—it’s actually six women and one man. What’s worse is that Robert Falco Miramontes was one of the translators who worked on the Ken Follett translation that I mentioned . . ...
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Tim Wilkinson Interview
Hungarian Literature Online has a really nice interview with Tim Wilkinson, who is probably best known as Imre Kertesz’s new translator. But for all publishers out there, Tim’s translated a lot more than Kertesz. In fact, he has a whole host of translations sitting in his desk waiting for a publisher . . . ...
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You Can Take the Man Out of Publishing, But . . .
He may have resigned from Soft Skull, but as evidenced in a recent post, at his personal blog—always a source of great erudition and entertainment—Richard Nash still has a lot to say about the business of publishing, the so-called “death of the book,” etc.: People, the book will live on with the ...
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