EVENT – Wednesday, April 13, 2011: Reading the World w/ Piotr Sommer & Bill Martin
As mentioned in the previous post, our second RTW event of the spring is almost upon us, and it’s happening this Wednesday, April 13, at the University of Rochester. All the breathtaking details follow below. Reading the World Conversation Series Piotr Sommer & Bill Martin: Polish Poetry and ...
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I Know You All Want a Copy of "Lodgings" . . .
Last month, Open Letter published its first work of poetry in translation:1 Andrzej Sosnowski’s Lodgings, translated from the Polish by Benjamin Paloff. It recently received a very nice review by E. C. Belli in Words Without Borders: With Lodgings, translator Benjamin Paloff has made an important contribution to ...
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Translating the novels of Tove Jansson: A talk by Thomas Teal
Where: Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 As part of Harvard Bookstore’s Friday Forum series, Thomas Teal, translator of Tove Jansson’s novels The Summer Book, The True Deceiver, and Fair Play, will speak about translating these works from the original Swedish. Although Tove Jansson is ...
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Janet Poole
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Poole presents The Antiquarian’s Task: Translating Eastern Sentiments. Part of Boston University’s Lecture Series in Literary Translation. All lectures are free and open to the public. A discussion will follow the presentation. For further ...
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Let Us Now Praise Texas Tech's "The Americas" Series
Now that the 8th book in the Americas Series from Texas Tech has arrived, it seems like an opportune time to bring some attention to Irene Vilar’s exciting project. Irene used to run this series out of the University of Wisconsin Press back in the early 2000s, but after leaving and writing a memoir (Impossible ...
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The Chukchi Bible
A bird flies around, takes a few shits, the shit turns into land and, voilà , the world is created. That may sound like a summary of a terrible animated short or a 1970s acid trip, but it’s simply my poorly hyper-abridged version of one of many truly beautiful Chukchi folk tales that mark the beginning of time and man ...
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Northern California Book Awards
The nominees for the 30th annual Northern California Book Awards were announced yesterday, in advance of the award ceremony taking place on April 10th at Koret Auditorium in the San Francisco Main Library. Nine awards are given out as part of this celebration, including ones for Best Fiction Translation and Best Poetry ...
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