Best Translated Book 2008 Longlist: Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
For the next several weeks we’ll be highlighting a book-a-day from the 25-title Best Translated Book of 2008 fiction longlist, leading up to the announcement of the 10 finalists. Click here for all previous write-ups. Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull ...
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Ready Steady Book's Books of the Year Symposium
Over at Ready Steady Book Mark Thwaite has posted the “Books of the Year 2008 symposium” featuring recommendations from a host of authors, translators, and reviewers, including Scott Esposito (who recommends Adolfo Bioy Casares and others), Charlotte Mandell (who is all about Flann O’Brien), her husband ...
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Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work
One other MLA thing worth mentioning is that Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush (of Middlebury College and Northwestern University respectively) won this year’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for their translation of St癡les by Victor Segalen, which was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2007. NYRB ...
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MLA
For the uninitiated, this article from an old issue of The Believer is a great description of MLA. Especially this bit about publishing and tenure: The upshot: university presses, once institutions of gentlemanly loss in the service of niche scholarship, have been forced to reorient themselves toward the bottom line. ...
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We Will Return Shortly
As you may have noticed, this has been a pretty slow week . . . We’re taking off for the holidays, but will be back next week with more profiles of the 25 books on the Best Translated Book of 2008 fiction longlist, and a write-up about the sixth Open Letter spring 2009 title, Merce Rodoreda’s Death in Spring. ...
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Translation Databases: Last one for 2008 and first one for 2009
It was just about a year ago that I started thinking about creating a “translation database” to keep track of all original translations of fiction and poetry published in the U.S. After all the speculation, guesstimation, and incomplete or inaccurate studies, I thought it would be useful to produce an actual list ...
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Open Letter Spring 09 Catalog: The Discoverer by Jan Kjaerstad
I referenced this book in my earlier post about “The Conqueror galley giveaway”: but in introducing the spring Open Letter titles, it definitely deserves it’s own entry. The Discoverer is the final volume in the “Wergeland Trilogy,” a collection of three books—The Seducer and The ...
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