¿Qué pasa? An NBCC Reads Event
Where: Durango Building, UT-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX The National Book Critics Circle recently polled its membership on the question: “Which work in translation has had the most effect on your reading and writing?” Some of the responses were posted on the NBCC Web site. As a follow-up, in various cities the NBCC ...
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German Book Prize Shortlist
The German Book Prize announced their shortlist a few weeks ago, and signandsight.com now has English excerpts available. Here’s the list: Rainer Merkel: “Light Years Away” (Lichtjahre Entfernt), S. Fischer Verlag Herta Müller: “Everything I Own I Carry With Me” (Atemschaukel), ...
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Oct. 6, 2009 – Reading the World Conversation Series: Charlotte Mandell
I know we just announced the new RTWCS events, but we’re already on the heels of the first one next week(!), featuring the incredible French translator Charlotte Mandell. Anyone and everyone is welcome to attend. Here’s all the info: OCT. 6, 2009 5:00 p.m. Sloan Auditorium (in Goergen Hall) University of ...
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Reading the World Conversation Series: Announcing Our Fall 2009 Events
For all those in the Rochester area, here are the events we’ve scheduled for this fall’s Reading the World Conversation Series. More information on each individual event will be posted soon, but here is the rundown, so you can mark your calendars now. These events are hosted by Open Letter and University of ...
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The Tanners
In the most recent translation of Swiss writer Robert Walser’s work, The Tanners, we are reminded once again why Kafka and Musil were fans—his wit. And like everything in Walser’s writing, it is nuanced and subtle. Instead giving us our melodrama straight with no chaser, he blends it with irony, insouciance and ...
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Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed
Although the official pub date isn’t until November 9th, a copy of the sixteenth volume of Two Lines arrived in the mail yesterday. It’s edited by Margaret Jull Costa and Marilyn Hacker, and contains a number of excerpts from interesting translations coming out this year, including the new translation of Gunter ...
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Publsihing Perspectives and the Frankfurt Show Daily
Just wanted to mention that I’m going to be writing a number of articles for the Publishing Perspectives Show Daily at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Actually, I’m working on a bunch of them right now . . . But that said, if you have an interesting announcement/story/event related to the FBF, please feel ...
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