3 Quarks Arts and Literature Prizes
I’m somewhat embarrassed even writing this, but if there’s one prize I would love to considered for it’s the 3 Quarks Arts and Literature Prize. (Which is sort of a lie—someday I want to do something worthy enough of the NBF’s Innovations in Reading prize.) 3 Quarks Daily is easily one of the ...
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Jaumé Cabre Launch Party
Where: Idlewild Books, 12 W. 19th St., New York, NY An evening with the Catalan author of Winter Journey. With live Schubert and a discussion of the relationship between the music and ...
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Book Launch of The Tanners by Robert Walser
Where: Deutsches Haus, New York University, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY With the translator, Susan
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Bilingual reading from Jaume Cabré's Winter Journey
Where: King Juan Carlos Center at NYU, 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY Staged bilingual reading from Jaume Cabré‘s Winter Journey, the first book by this award-winning Catalan author to be published in English (Swan Isle Press, 2009). Strains of Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle resound in this text ...
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Borges's Collaborator
In Buenos Aires in 1967 Borges began an unusual working relationship with a young Italian-American translator, Norman Thomas di Giovanni, whom he had met at Harvard. Di Giovanni had recently translated a collection of verse by Spanish poets, and asked Borges for a contribution. He got more than he bargained for: the ...
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Min Kamp
Last fall at Frankfurt I visited with quite a few Norwegian publishers, and every one of them was talking about Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd’s Min Kamp (My Struggle, or Mein Kampf to make the provocation plain), which our good friends at Oktober Forlaget were publishing in six volumes, three in one season and three the next, for ...
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World's End
It’s incredibly difficult to imagine that there is anything new to say about Pablo Neruda. But Neruda, probably the most prolific poet of the twentieth century, provides endless opportunities for his readers, scholars and critics to re-evaluate his oeuvre. World’s End (Copper Canyon, 2009) is a treasure-trove of intimate ...
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