Mikhail Shishkin's "Maidenhair" Wins the International Literature Award
Every year, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the foundation “Elementarteilchen” award the International Literature Award to the best book translated into German. This year, they gave the prize (25,000 Euro for the author and 10,000 for the translator) to Mikhail Shishkin and Andreas Tretner for the translation of ...
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Lightning
There’s something fundamentally compelling about Nikola Tesla’s life. The fact that he was born either right before midnight on July 9th, or right after on July 10th. His ability to visual things in 3-D and then create them exactly how he saw them. His photographic memory. The “War of Currents.” How he ...
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European Literature Prize to Marie NDiaye
In an earlier post about the European Literature Prize, I conflated the awards ceremony with the announcement of the winner, and thought we’d have to wait until September to find out which book was selected. Thankfully, I was totally wrong, and received this announcement this morning: The novel Drie sterke vrouwen ...
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Lit&Lunch with Poet, Novelist, and Translator Fanny Howe
Where: 111 Minna St., San Francisco, CA 94105 (Minna @ 2nd) Fanny Howe is commonly ranked among the leading innovative American writers of the postwar generation. A recipient of numerous awards, Howe’s poetry in particular is noted ofr its power and approach to social justice and comtemporary issues. In this ...
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Italian Fiction and The Bridge
The next event in The Bridge series—a reading and discussion series for literary translation that takes place at McNally Jackson in NYC and is organized by Bill Martin and Sal Robinson—is tied into the Chicago Review special issue on New Italian Writing that we wrote about yesterday. Taking place on Wednesday at ...
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Open Letter Newsletter
We tried sending this out to all our enewsletter subscribers last week, but it seems that at least some of them didn’t receive it. (Ironically, self included.) Anyway, you can access the whole thing here for a summary of our $4.99 ebook special, info on Read This Next, on the Three Percent Podcast, and on the ...
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Antonio Lobo Antunes Review
I somehow missed it when this first appeared online, but here’s a link to my review of Antonio Lobo Antunes’s The Land at the End of the World, which has been newly translated by Margaret Jull Costa and brought out by W.W. Norton. Antunes is one of my favorite authors, so expect Grant Barber’s full length ...
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