Richard Sieburth on Georg Büchner’s 200th Birthday
GUEST POST: In honor of German author Georg Büchner’s 200th birthday, Lenz translator Richard Sieburth celebrates this historic day: Oct. 17 is the bicentenary of Georg Büchner's birth--a date he shares with his distant American doppelgänger, Nathaniel West. According to Paul Celan (in
BLINDING Reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books!
Bogdan Suceavă just wrote a beautiful review of Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, for the Los Angeles Review of Books: Reading Cotter’s Blinding feels like reading a work originally conceived in English. Many passages of the book are written like a
BLINDING Reviewed in the Star Tribune
Malcolm Forbes reviews Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, for the Minneapolis Star Tribune : Cartarescu’s magical mystery tour has begun. Memories warp into fantasies and cityscape melts in and out of dreamscape. Segments of realism (the narrator’s family’s
Review of Stone Upon Stone by David Williams in Slavic and East European Journal
Wiesław Myśliwski. Stone upon Stone. Translated by Bill Johnston. New York: Archipelago Books, 2010. 534 pp., $20 (paperback). In terms of the Central and East European literature published in English translation in the post-1989 period, Wiesław Myśliwski’s Stone upon Stone (Kamień
David Colmer wins 2013 Vondel Translation Prize
Congrats, David! From the official press release: The Vondel Translation Prize 2013 has been awarded to David Colmer for The Misfortunates, his translation into English of De helaasheid der dingen by Dimitri Verhulst. The jury was made up of British critic Paul Binding (Times
Archipelago Named a Top 25 Indie Press by Flavorwire!
Jason Diamond of Flavorwire writes: This New York-based nonprofit press started out in 2003 with a mission to publish the finest translated classic and contemporary world literature. A decade later, with titles originally written in Polish, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, and just about
Mircea Cărtărescu Comes to North America!
This month we invite you to come out and help us welcome Mircea Cărtărescu as he journeys to North America to celebrate the launch of his remarkable novel Blinding, beautifully translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter. Twin Cities, Minnesota - October 12, 10:30