BookExpo America's Cultural Program
Over the next few days, we’re going to highlight a few of the goings on at this year’s BookExpo America, the parties, the panels, etc. I thought I’d start out by highlighting the two events taking place next Friday and Saturday featuring the Arab world, this year’s Global Market Forum focus. Both of ...
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Newsletter and Fundraising Campaign
Those of you who subscribe to our newsletter or are members of our Facebook group already received this, but for those who haven’t, here’s this week’s newsletter, which also serves as the kickoff for our first ever fundraising campaign. Hi— There was such a great response to last week’s ...
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2009 NIKE Awards
Haven’t found the full list online yet, but apparently the longlist for this year’s NIKE Literary Award (the most prestigious literary award in Poland) have been announced. I’ll post an update when I find the full list, but for now, I can say that both Bambino by Inga Iwasiow and Poland Marches On by our own ...
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The Ninth
English-language readers have been enthusiastic about the excellent, albeit sinister, works of fiction by Hungarian writers like Nobel-Winner Imre Kertész, Best Translated Book Award Winner Attila Bartis, and the wonderful Péter Esterházy. We’ve been enthusiastic about being disturbed and moved, subjected to nightmare ...
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Four Korean Authors
Tim Nassau is interning at Open Letter over the summer, researching books we should have translated and writing some posts for the blog, such as the one below that gives a brief overview of a few interesting Korean authors. The Korea Literature Translation Institute has the expressed goal “of contributing to global ...
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Book Launch Party with Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza
Chronicle Books lobby, San Francisco Join the Center for the Art of Translation and the Consulate General of Mexico to celebrate the release of BEST OF CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN FICTION, recently published by Dalkey Archive Press. Edited by Alvaro Uribe, with translations edited by Olivia Sears, the bilingual anthology collects ...
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Haruki Murakami's new book: 1Q84
The Millions has an interesting post about the forthcoming Haruki Murakami book. Apparently, after details about Kafka on the Shore leaked out, Murakami “insisted that his fans be allowed to approach the new book with no preconceptions,” so info on the new novel is pretty scarce. The title is 1Q84, it will release ...
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