New Bookforum Website
Late last week, Bookforum launched their new website, which has all of the great features of the previous one (the daily round up blog, articles from the print version, etc.), but has also added a couple of cool things, like a daily review section and a syllabi section containing lists of recommendations within a particular ...
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New Eyes on the Arab World—Breaking Down Barriers of Fear and Prejudice
Where: The New York Public Library, 42nd Street, New York, NY New Eyes on the Arab World—Breaking Down Barriers of Fear and Prejudice Sponsored by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, in cooperation with the Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University and ArteEast. Peter Theroux, Raja Alem, Tom ...
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The Thousand and One Nights
Where: Goethe Institute, New York Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd Street, New York, NY BookExpo America’s Global Market Forum Off-site Cultural Program: Muhsin Al-Musawi presents his new book, Amal Al-Jubouri reads Arabic and European remixes of “The Thousand and One Nights” (English/German/Arabic). Organized ...
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A Mind at Peace
In his novel A Mind at Peace, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar asks if it’s possible for a culture that is tied so closely and intimately to its past to survive in a trying time of change. The novel begins in Istanbul the morning of the declaration of World War II and ends with the same announcement, framing the story while we learn ...
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Rossica Translation Prize to Amanda Love Darragh
Announced earlier this week, this year’s Rossica Translation Prize was awarded to Amanda Love Darragh for her translation of Iramifications by Maria Galina. The prize of £5,000 is split between the translator and publisher—which in this instance is the admirable Glas, one of the finest publishers of ...
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Issue 16 of The Quarterly Conversation
Issue 16 (16!) of The Quarterly Conversation is now available, and, as always, there’s a lot of great content, including an excerpt from one of our forthcoming titles, The Museum of Eterna’s Novel. In addition to an interview with one of our favorite authors, Amanda Michalopolou (or, as Chad likes to call her, ...
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The 2009 FAF Translation Prize Winners . . .
Last night the French-American Foundation and Gould Foundation held their annual translation prize ceremony, honoring Jody Gladding & Elizabeth Deshays in the fiction category for their translation of Small Lives by Pierre Michon (Archipelago) and Matthew Cobb & Malcolm Debevoise in nonfiction for their translation of ...
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