New Issues: Rattapallax and PEN America
After briefly lamenting the fact that there’s not a lot of places to turn to to learn about/gain exposure to international poetry, I opened my mail and found the new issue of Rattapallax, which, along with CALQUE and Circumference, is one of the best sources for poetry in translation. This particular issue kicks off by ...
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Five Dials Issue 8.2
Just received this e-mail about the new issue of Five Dials: The latest edition of Five Dials — number 8b — is now available. As you will notice, it is an addendum, but a far better addendum than, say, the one you find at the back of your Self Assessment Tax Return. Your free copy is available ...
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Anonymous Celebrity
Ignacio de Loyola Brandao’s fourth book to appear in English, Anonymous Celebrity is most definitely the novel of his most concerned with contemporary issues, and may well be his funniest and richest novel to date. I say this as a big fan of Brandao’s writing (and not just because it’s fun to pronounce his ...
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Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 Nominations
The nominations for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 were announced yesterday: Denmark Peter Laugesen Fotorama (Photorama) Poetry collection, Forlaget Borgen 2009 Ida Jessen Børnene (The Children) Novel, Forlaget Gyldendal 2009 Finland Sofi Oksanen Puhdistus (Purge) Novel, WSOY 2008 Monika ...
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European Book Club: To Siberia
Where: Norwegian Consulate, 825 Third Avenue, 38th Floor (entrance on 50th Street), New York, NY To Siberia: A brother and sister are forced ever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather. Their parents’ neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small Danish village. “Sistermine” dreams of ...
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And In Case You Weren't Already Enamored With Translators . . .
Over at the BOA Editions blog there’s a guest post from Idra Novey—poet and translator of The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriques Britto—about “bad girls” and translation: Whenever this happens, I think of an interview I read a few years ago in the New York Times Magazine with the writer ...
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More Dispatches from Guadalajara
Because it snowed today in Rochester, I’m going to post again about the Guadalajara Book Fair. Mainly, I want to apologize for doing crap research before linking to Hermano Cerdo’s coverage of the fair . . . Their coverage is excellent, and Hermano Cerdo deserves tons of traffic, but there are some others also ...
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