{"id":271886,"date":"2009-06-15T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/06\/15\/guardians-short-story-project\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:51","slug":"guardians-short-story-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/06\/15\/guardians-short-story-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian's Short Story Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, all this week The Guardian<\/em><\/a> will be running original short stories from a host of Eastern European writers. Up first is East German writer Clemens Meyer with Of Dogs and Horses,<\/a> a short story from Die Nacht, Die Lichter<\/em><\/a> (published by S. Fisher in German, but is still awaiting an English publisher). <\/p>\n

The story itself is well done—especially the dark twist at the end . . . And Katy Derbyshire (of Love German Books<\/a>) did an excellent job translating this. <\/p>\n

Back during this year’s PEN<\/span> World Voice Festival, I was a last minute moderator substitute for Zaia Alexander and interviewed Clemens Meyer. As part of the discussion, we each read a bit from this particular story. He read the opening in German, and then I read the ending in English—even the racetrack bits in my best horse announcer voices . . . Anyone who was there knows how dismal that was. Clemens, on the other hand, was bad-ass—possibly from his years of attending the races. In fact, he bought the very cool glasses he was wearing after a good day at the track . . .<\/p>\n

Richard Lea sent me the complete list of authors\/stories that will appear this week, and it’s pretty impressive. I’ll post about each one as it goes live, and although these two things aren’t exactly related, this Guardian<\/em> project is a great complement to The Wall in My Head<\/em>, the Words Without Borders anthology of fiction, essays, and images we’re publishing on November 9th to mark the same anniversary. More on that next week . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, all this week The Guardian will be running original short stories from a host of Eastern European writers. Up first is East German writer Clemens Meyer with Of Dogs and Horses, a short story from Die Nacht, Die Lichter (published by S. Fisher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[24836,1836,196,24856,24846,2806,9646,23616],"class_list":["post-271886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-clemens-meyeps","tag-cwp","tag-guardian","tag-katy-derbyshire","tag-of-dogs-and-horses","tag-pen-world-voices","tag-richard-lea","tag-wall-in-my-head"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352306,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271886\/revisions\/352306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}