Argentina Independent Spotlight on Carlos Gamerro
The Argentina Independent has a great feature on Carlos Gamerro, a very interesting Argentine writer who once contributed to Three Percent and has a couple books coming out in translation. Here’s Joey Rubin’s intro: The time has come for Carlos Gamerro to speak English. Born into a bilingual family in Buenos ...
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NEA Literature Translation Fellowships
Just an FYI that information about the next round of NEA Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects is now available online. These grants are for either $12,500 or $25,000 (which is quite possibly more than the winning translators would receive from their publishers . . . ) and the deadline for submitting is January 5, ...
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Dutch Guest of Honor at the Beijing International Book Fair
The Beijing Book Fair kicks off this week, and The Netherlands is this year’s Country of Honor. In order to celebrate this, the always industrious Dutch have put together Open Landscape-Open Book a pretty sizable program to promote Dutch literature. Although the Netherlands is the guest of honour this year, we ...
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Edith Grossman Tells it Like it Is [We Are So Small]
Over at Publishing Perspectives, there’s a profile piece by Hernán Iglesias Illa on Edith Grossman, translator extraordinaire and author of Why Translation Matters. (Which I wrote about at length for Quarterly Conversation back when it came out.) Let’s start with an interesting part about Grossman’s ...
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? [Book Trailers]
I’m about halfway through David Bellos’s forthcoming Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, and absolutely love it. I think we’ll be promoting this in Read This Next in late-September, and I’ll definitely be using it in my translation class next spring. I’ll ...
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Lives Other Than My Own
France’s Emmanuel Carrère, filmmaker, novelist and biographer, attempts to hit fate below the belt in his latest effort, Lives Other Than My Own. Difficult to classify—it could be memoir, it could be fiction, it could be a treatise on compassion—Lives Other Than My Own presents stories of grief about people the ...
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Interview with Emmanuel Carrere [Read This Next]
The interview with Emmanuel Carrere about Lives Other Than My Own — this week’s Read This Next title — just went live. Here’s an excerpt: Lily Ye: You write that this is a book for others (especially Juliette’s daughters), but has it had an effect on you as well? How do you think this narrative ...
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