Ugly Duckling Presse Subscriptions
2010 Subscriptions to Ugly Duckling Presse are now available. They limit the total number of subscribers to 200 and usually sell out pretty quickly, so act fast. There are three levels of subscriber/donors: At the BASIC SUBSCRIBER level ($150) you receive more than 20 books throughout the year, sent directly to your ...
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Aira on Translation
Seems ironically fitting to follow the first Making the Translator Visible post with this bit from Conversational Reading about a recent interview with Cesar Aira (whose Ghosts is—to steal a line from a New York Times article—so good it’s in need of adjectives yet invented that would be written in italics ...
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2009 Finlandia Prize Nominees
FILI just announced the finalists for this year’s Finlandia Prize—a 30,000 euro award given every year to the best Finnish works of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. Personally, I’m most interested in the fiction, so here’s the complete list with descriptions of each title from ...
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Danuta Borchardt on Pornografia
Where: The Bookstore Of Gloucester, 61 Main St., Gloucester, MA The Bookstore Of Gloucester is pleased to welcome acclaimed translator DANUTA BORCHARDT for a conversation about her translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Pornografia. Witold Gombrowicz wrote Pornografia after leaving his native Poland for Argentina ...
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Divine Madness: Hamsun in America
Where: 58 Park Ave at 38th St, NY, NY $9 ($6 ASF members. In recognition of the 150th anniversary of Knut Hamsun’s birth, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, has produced a series of films about the author’s life and work. Divine Madness: Hamsun in America portrays the hardships of Hamsun’s childhood, his ...
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Florence Gould Foundation and French-American Foundation Translation Prizes
Just received this reminder from Emma Archer: The Florence Gould Foundation and the French-American Foundation are currently accepting submissions for their Annual Translation Prizes. DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2009 This year the foundation will present a $10 000 cash award for the best English translation of ...
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"You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Spoons" [ALTA Conference]
As if it isn’t obvious from my earlier posts about ALTA, I’m a huge fan of the conference, the people, the panels. (To riff on the nature of the panels for a second: these are almost anti-MLA type events. It’s an unwritten—or maybe even written—rule that you don’t read a paper on an ALTA ...
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