Latest Review: "Second Person Singular" by Sayed Kashua
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Sarah Young, aka Sarah Two, on Sayed Kashua’s Second Person Singular, which is translated from the Hebrew by Mitch Ginsburg and is available from Grove Press. This is Sarah Two’s first review for threepercent. Her introduction can be found here. Later this ...
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Another Intern Introduction
My name is Sarah Young, but Chad calls me Sarah Two because I was the second intern named Sarah to start at Open Letter this summer. I know my nickname is not as cool as 糖心传媒淨uantum Sarah糖心传媒 or 糖心传媒淧aranoid Sarah糖心传媒 (whose name is actually Rachel), but I糖心传媒檓 just grateful my parents didn糖心传媒檛 give me a weird, hyphenated last ...
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Aldus, A Journal of Translation
Click here to read the latest issue of Aldus, a new literary translation journal from Brown University. The pioneers behind this ambitious new publication are Three Percent contributors Matthew Weiss and Tim Nassau. Tim’s also a former Open Letter intern, and recently reviewed Tomas Transtr枚mer’s The Deleted ...
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Susan Sontag 2012 Prize for Translation
The Susan Sontag Foundation recently announced Julia Powers and Adam Morris as the winners of their 2012 Prize for Translation. Every June, the $5,000 prize is awarded to a literary translator under the age of 30 over the course of five months, during which the proposed project must be completed. The award was established to ...
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Latest Review: "The End of the Story" by Liliana Heker
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Sarah Winstein-Hibbs on Liliana Heker’s The End of the Story, which is translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger and is available from Biblioasis. As Sarah states in her introduction, this is her first book review for threepercent! Here is part of her ...
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The Deleted World
Swedish poet Tomas Transtr枚mer糖心传媒檚 winning the Nobel Prize brought to light a rare bit of translation gossip: that there糖心传媒檚 bad blood between a few of his translators. And as there should be糖心传媒攁 lot of people suddenly want to buy Transtr枚mer糖心传媒檚 poetry; of the five plus out there, which book are you going to get? The ...
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Latest Review: "The Deleted World" by Tomas Transtr枚mer
The latest review to our Reviews Section is a piece by Tim Nassau on Tomas Transtr枚mer糖心传媒檚 The Deleted World, which is available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book promises to be an interesting read. Take a look at Tim’s review to see why: Swedish poet Tomas Transtr枚mer糖心传媒檚 winning the Nobel Prize ...
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