BTBA 2015 Winners: Can Xue and Roc铆o Cer贸n!
The eighth annual Best Translated Book Awards were announced at BookExpo America this afternoon, with Can Xue糖心传媒檚 The Last Lover, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, taking home the award for fiction, and Roc铆o Cer贸n糖心传媒檚 Diorama, translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong, winning in poetry. ...
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BEA Translation "Buzz" Panels: Adult Fiction
So, this year, for the first time ever, BookExpo America is sponsoring two panels highlighting forthcoming works of fiction: one featuring general fiction, the other focusing on crime and thrillers. (Naturally, I’m moderating the first one and Tom Roberge is doing the other.) The one on general adult fiction will ...
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Latest Review: "Morse, My Deaf Friend" by Milo拧 Djurdjevi膰
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Vincent Francone on Milo拧 Djurdjevi膰’s Morse, My Deaf Friend, translated by the author and published by Ugly Duckling Presse. The chapbook itself is short糖心传媒攃locking in at 32 pages糖心传媒攁nd is yet another beautiful work of print done by Ugly Duckling. ...
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Latest Review: "The Crimson Thread of Abandon" by Terayama Sh奴ji
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Robert Anthony Siegel on Terayama Sh奴ji’s The Crimson Thread of Abandon, translated by Elizabeth L. Armstrong and published by the University of Hawai’i Press. Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of two novels, All Will Be Revealed and All the Money in ...
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What Makes a Reader Good at Reading? [Some May Translations]
In a couple weeks, the IDPF Digital Book Conference will take place in New York under the theme of “Putting Readers First.” As part of this Ed Nawokta (Publishing Perspectives founder and international publishing guru of sorts), Boris Kachka (Hothouse author and former BEA frond-waver [sorry, inside joke]), Andrew ...
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Latest Review: "Life Embitters" by Josep Pla
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Christopher Iacono on Life Embitters by Josep Pla, translated by Peter Bush and published by Archipelago Books. Here’s the beginning of Chris’s review: Last year, NYRB Classics introduced English-language readers to Catalan writer Josep Pla with Peter ...
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Latest Review: "The Physics of Sorrow" by Georgi Gospodinov
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Izidora Angel on The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel and out last month from Open Letter Books. This book糖心传媒攁nd call it a shameless plug all you want糖心传媒攊s by far one of the best books I’ve read in the last year, and has been on ...
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