Latest Review: "The Last Reader" by David Toscana
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Sara Cohen on David Toscana’s The Last Reader, which is translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz and available from Texas Tech University Press. Sara—a summer intern and student here at the University of Rochester—is working on reviews of a few books ...
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Man Booker International vs. Translated Literature
The following piece was written by 脕ngel Gurr铆a-Quintana, a freelance journalist, editor and translator. He is a regular contributor to the books pages of the Financial Times. His writing has also appeared in The Observer, The Economist, Prospect, The Paris Review and Brick. 脕ngel lives in Cambridge, U.K. This piece of ...
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Latest Review: "From the Observatory" by Julio Cortazar
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece I wrote about Julio Cortazar’s From the Observatory, which is translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and forthcoming from Archipelago Books. It also happens to be this week’s Read This Next title. Here’s the opening of the review: It’s ...
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From the Observatory by Julio Cortazar [Read This Next]
This week’s Read This Next book is From the Observatory by Julio Cortazar. Wonderfully translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean, this will be available from Archipelago Books in early August. In the words of Complete Review’s Michael Orthofer, this book is “striking, odd,” which is just about ...
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Latest Review: "The Land at the End of the World" by Ant贸nio Lobo Antunes
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Grant Barber on Ant贸nio Lobo Antunes’s The Land at the End of the World, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and available from W.W. Norton. Antunes is a long-time favorite of mine. I really love his novel Act of the Damned. And Fado ...
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The Final Frontier: Translating Sci-Fi & Fantasy with Georges-Olivier Ch芒teaureynaud
On June 20, 2011 Small Beer Press was delighted to announce their winners for their inaugural Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation “Award.糖心传媒:http://tinyurl.com/3wpflje This year糖心传媒檚 long-form award went to celebrated short story writer Georges-Olivier Ch芒teaureynaud, author of the winning book A Life on Paper: ...
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The Lake
糖心传媒淭he first time Nakajima stayed over, I dreamed of my dead mom.糖心传媒 This is the first sentence of Banana Yoshimoto糖心传媒檚 latest novel to be translated into English, The Lake. I vaguely recall learning or reading somewhere some sort of creative writing related piece of wisdom糖心传媒攐r maybe it糖心传媒檚 just some advice, or simply ...
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