Dec 08 Issue of Words Without Borders
The new issue of Words Without Borders is now online, and is entitled “The Home Front”: This month we’re reporting on the war at home, with international dispatches on domestic conflicts. Here homeland security is both threatened and maintained, as couples tie the knot but long to cut the cord, and double ...
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2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize
I can’t find a listing at the National Poetry Series website, but Lawrence Venuti has been awarded the 2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize for his translation of Edward Hopper by Ernest Farres. The prize—which was awarded for the first time last year—is given each year to a translation who has ...
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A Year in Reading at The Millions
Another good source for a year-end roundup is The Millions. As with the TLS and Guardian roundups we mentioned yesterday, The Millions will be posting personal recommendations throughout the month from authors, editors, etc. They have six entries up there so far, the most recent by Mark Binelli, author of Sacco & Vanzetti ...
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Latest Review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
We just posted a review by Monica Carter of Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa Editions), translated from the French by Alison Anderson. Monica works at Skylight Books in Los Angeles, and runs the phenomenal blog Salonica — Exploit. Explore. Examine., which is dedicated to international ...
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, her sophomore effort after a well-received debut Une Gourmandaise (The Craving), is the perfect introductory foray into those neophytes who consider the world of translated fiction intimidating. It is erudite while being accessible, intellectual as well as sweet, stylistic ...
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Publishing Models, Translations, and the Financial Collapse (Part 11–The End)
_This is the eleventh and final part of a presentation I gave to the German Book Office directors a couple weeks ago. Earlier sections of the speech can be found here, or collected in a single pdf file. On a more personal level, editors—real, living breathing people, not just the faceless corporation—can reach ...
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Centre for Future Storytelling
Robert McCrum can be pretty bitingly funny: According to the Times, some clever people at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are setting up a $25m ‘laboratory’ to ‘save the story’. You could hardly make it up. The Centre for Future Storytelling declares it is going to ask ‘the big ...
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