2009 Blue Metropolis Festival
Montreal’s 11th annual Blue Metropolis (or rather, Metropolis Bleu) took place this last weekend, featuring a huge number of international writers, events, readings, and languages. According to an article in the Montreal Gazette, the Metropolis Bleu Festival was the “world’s first multilingual literary ...
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Ghosts
The entire plot of Ghosts, Cesar Aira’s third novel to be translated into English and published by New Directions, is encapsulated in this story told over New Year’s Eve dinner: Patri thought for a moment before speaking: I remember a story by Oscar Wilde, about a princess who was bored in her palace, bored ...
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2009 PEN Translation Fund Recipients
The recipients of this year’s PEN Translation Fund Awards were announced last week, and once again, a number of really interesting projects are highlighted—including a number that are still looking for a publishers . . . For those unfamiliar with the prize, this was established in 2003 thanks to an anonymous ...
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And We Exhale . . .
OK, after ten days of book fairs and festivals in three countries, I’m finally back in Rochester . . . for the time being. The PEN World Voices Festival kicks off today in New York, and after our event here in Rochester on Thursday—a Reading and Conversation with Norwegian author Jan Kjaerstad (The Conqueror, The ...
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PEN World Voices Festival
April 27th — May 3rd, 2009 Where: New York, NY A stellar line-up of established and emerging authors from 40 countries take the stage in venues across the city for 6 packed days of conversations, panels, performances and readings. In this year of landmark anniversaries—Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), the ...
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Jan Kjaerstad at Busboys and Poets
Where: Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th Street NW, Washington, DC Jan Kjaerstad will read from The Conqueror, field questions, and hold a ...
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Best Translated Book Award Winners
2009: POETRY: For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide, Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu (New Directions) FICTION: Tranquility by Attila Bartis, Translated from the Hungarian by Imre ...
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