Edith Grossman's "Why Translation Matters"
Thanks to Jeff Waxman for alerting me to Edith Grossman’s Why Translation Matters, which Yale University Press is bringing out next March. Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation, and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator’s role. As the acclaimed ...
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Ferguson lecture on Knut Hamsun
Where: Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue [at 40th Street], NY, NY Lecture and introduction to Hamsun’s life and literary work, and a discussion of the controversies surrounding his legacy with Robert Ferguson, author of “Knut Hamsun, his brilliance, his tragedy, his ...
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Translation Is a Love Affair
One of the most interesting facets of Translation Is a Love Affair is the brief bio on Sheila Fischman: Sheila Fischman has published more than 125 translations of contemporary French-Canadian novels including works by Jacques Poulin, Francois Gravel, Anne Hebert, Marie-Claire Blais, Michel Tremblay, and Gaetan Soucy. In ...
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International Literary Quarterly: November Issue
The International Literary Quarterly is consistently good, but I think this month’s issue will be of extra special interest to Three Percent readers: Volta: A Multilingual Anthology This unusual anthology contains seventy-five poems in seventy-five languages. Seventy-four of these poems are ...
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It's Like Darth Vader meets Voldemort . . .
From BoingBoing: Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to remove its news content from Google, according to the Financial Times. Microsoft has also approached other “big online publishers” with similar deals. “One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan ...
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NBCC: Why Translation Matters?
A couple weeks ago, the National Book Critics Circle hosted a panel at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City entitled “Why Translation Matters?” and featuring Sarah Fay, Christopher Merrill, Cole Swenson, Russell Valentino, (incorrectly identified as Rudolph Valentino on the NBCC info page, which isn’t ...
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Babel Series: Ha Jin
Where: Buffalo, NY Click here for more
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