Seven Books by Women in Translation [My Year in Lists]
Rather than devolve into posting clickbait featuring cats, penguins, hedgehogs, corgis, and books, like other BuzzHole sites, I’m going hard for the rest of the week, starting with seven books by women in translation. The gender disparity in terms of women in translation has been fairly well documented—see the ...
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Kurt Beals Wins First-Ever German Book Office Translation Prize
Just reproducing the press release the GBO sent me, since it says everything that needs to be said in the best way possible: The German Book Office is excited to announce that Kurt Beals has won its first ever translation competition. Beals, a PhD Candidate in German Literature and Culture at the University of ...
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"engulf ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½” enkindle" by Anja Utler [5 Days of Poety]
With the Best Translated Book Award announcements taking place Friday, May 4th at 6pm at McNally Jackson Books it’s time to highlight all six poetry finalists. Over the course of the week we’ll run short pieces by all of the poetry judges on their list of finalists. Click here for all past and future posts in ...
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engulf ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½” enkindle
engulf ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½” enkindle is a stunning book of poetry. It literally stunned me into absolute submission; it is the book of poetry IÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™d been wanting to read for years. ItÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s a small volume, and I read it in one sitting, faster than I normally read poetry, because I couldnÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™t slow down. The language sunk its hooks into me and ...
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Latest Review: "engulf–enkindle" by Anja Utler
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Erica Mena on Anja Utler’s engulfÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”enkindle, which is translated by Kurt Beals and came out in December from the admirable Burning Deck. The best source for info on German poet Anja Utler seems to be this site (which, for those of you into poetry of the ...
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