Vick Prize for the Bulgarian Novel of the Year
As reported at Literary Saloon, Evgenia Ivanova’s Photo Stoyanovich won this year’s prize. In case you’re not familiar with the Vick Prize it started in 2004 with the goal of promoting the best Bulgarian book of the year: The prize is a monetary award of BGN 10,000 and the option of a translation of ...
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Calque on ALTA Conference
I can’t express how disappointed I was to have to miss the ALTA conference this year. This is by far my favorite annual conference for any number of reasons. (I once wrote a piece for Words Without Borders about how I loved ALTA because most of the translators were shorter than me. That’s incredibly unusual and ...
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Slice Magazine #3: In Translation
Slice is a relatively new magazine that focuses on new voices—this issue contains pieces by a number of seventh graders—while also containing some more established writers and a number of interviews. I first came across Slice over the summer and thought that it had a lot of potential. In terms of design (and to ...
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Arabic Literature in English Translation
In the Literary Saloon post about David Tresilian’s A Brief Guide to Modern Arabic Literature, Michael Orthofer quotes this paragraph about the dismal (though not terribly shocking) number of Arabic books translated into English since World War II: Recently modern Arabic literature seems to have made several long ...
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Ross Benjamin on Kevin Vennemann's Close to Jedenew
Over at Love German Books is a very interesting interview with Ross Benjamin about his translation of Kevin Vennemann’s Close to Jedenew for the Melville House Art of the Contemporary Novella series. Ross, tell us about the book . . . It’s an account of a pogrom against a Jewish family by their ...
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Quotation Marks and Literature
I completely agree with Scott Esposito, Lionel Shriver’s diatribe against writers who don’t use quotation marks is certifiably batty: Literature is not very popular these days, to put it mildly. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, nearly half of Americans do not read books at all, and those who ...
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Latest Review: Small Lives by Pierre Michon
Our latest review is of Pierre Michon’s Small Lives, which was recently published by Archipelago Books. Frequent reviewer Monica Carter wrote this piece, which opens: One of the signs of a great book is that the reader feels like she is reading a great book. From the very first sentence, she knows a question has ...
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