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The Arts
October 6, 2023 | 09:42 am

How Nobel Prize–winning author Jon Fosse was found in translation

Open Letter’s Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences—and the importance of foreign translation presses today.

topics: Chad Post, Department of English, featured-post-side, literary translation, literature, Open Letter, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
March 7, 2018 | 01:58 pm

Open Letter gives voice to women authors in translation

Only 3 percent of all books published in the United States are translated from other languages, and only 29 percent of those are by women authors. Rochester is home to several projects aimed at addressing this.

topics: Chad Post, diversity, featured-post-side, global engagement, literature, Open Letter,
Society & Culture
May 5, 2016 | 05:00 am

And the winners of this year’s Best Translated Book Awards are…

Chad Post, creator of Three Percent and a founder of the awards program as publisher of the University’s Open Letter Books, announced the winners May 4 during a ceremony in New York City.

topics: Best Translated Book Award, Chad Post, humanities, literary translation, literature, School of Arts and Sciences, Three Percent, translation,
The Arts
May 5, 2015 | 03:55 pm

2015 Best Translated Book Award finalists announced

Ten works of fiction and six poetry collections remain in the running for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards following the announcement of the two shortlists today on Three Percent, the University of Rochester’s translation-centric website.

topics: announcements, Best Translated Book Award, Chad Post, literature, Open Letter, translation,
University News
December 9, 2014 | 06:38 pm

Open Letter awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant

The literary translation press recently received one of this year’s largest Arts Works grants in literature. The $60,000 grant will support the publication and promotion of several books in 2015, including Rochester Knockings, a novel based on the Rochester-based religious movement of Spiritualism and the famous Fox Sisters.

topics: Chad Post, grant, literary translation, National Endowment for the Arts, Open Letter,