Summer Reading without Borders
This is sort of late notice, but I’m going to be on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Here on Earth today at 4pm Eastern time to recommend some recent works of international literature that are worth checking out. You can listen to this online, and since it’s a call in show, you can even call and ask me questions. ...
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Contemporary Bulgarian Writers
It would be hard to overstate all the amazing things the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing (and Elizabeth herself) has done for contemporary Bulgarian writers. Sure, there’s the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, but they also organized a special day of panels on Literary Diplomacy to take place in Sofia, helped ...
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Sozopol Fiction Seminar 2010
Before heading off to Bulgaria to participate in the special translation panels at this year’s Sozopol Fiction Seminars, I knew next to nothing about Sozopol. I knew that we had to fly in Sofia and take a bus for something like eternity 8 hours to get to Sozopol and the Black Sea. From Wikipedia I found out that Brad ...
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The PEN Translation Fund Announces the 2010 Grant Recipients
Daniel Brunet for The Last Fire, a play by Dea Loher that examines the devastation wrought on a small community by the accidental death of a child. Following its premiere in Hamburg in 2008, it won both the 2008 Play of the Year award from Theater Heute and the 2008 Mülheim Drama Prize. (No publisher) Alexander ...
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Help Bring Poetry Inside Out to 250 Students
Last week, the Center for the Art of Translation started a fundraising campaign for their Poetry Inside Out program. Thought some of you might be interested in contributing: This week, we’re starting a campaign to raise $15,000 to bring Poetry Inside out to 250 new students this fall. We’d like to ask all the ...
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Book Launch Party: The Private Lives of Trees
Where: Melville House Bookstore, 145 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, NY Join Open Letter Books and Melville House Publishing as they celebrate the launch of Alejandro Zambra’s The Private Lives of Trees and the publication of Zambra’s Bonsai at the Melville House Bookstore. There will be a brief reading from Zambra, ...
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Reminder: Alejandro Zambra Party Tonight
If you’re in New York—for BEA, or simply because you live there—you should definitely come out to tonight’s party in honor of Alejandro Zambra, author of Bonsai (Melville House, finalist for 2009 Best Translated Book Award) and The Private Lives of Trees (Open Letter). The event is at Melville ...
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