Tess Lewis & Donald Nicholson-Smith Finalists for 2015 French-American Translation Prize
The French-American Foundation has just released its list of the 2015 Translation Prize Finalists. Among them are Archipelago translators Tess Lewis and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Lewis was nominated for her translation of Privy Portrait by Jean-Luc Benoziglio (Seagull Books), and Nicholson-Smith was
Special mention of Harlequin’s Millions at the BTBA ceremony
The 2015 Best Translated Book Awards were announced at BookExpo America this afternoon, with Can Xue’s The Last Lover, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, taking home the award for fiction, and Rocío Cerón’s Diorama, translated from the Spanish by
Norwegian American Literary Festival, featuring Knausgaard
Hosted by The Paris Review, The Norwegian American Literary Festival comes to New York, May 20 - 22, featuring Karl Ove Knausgaard, as well as James Wood, Lydia Davis, and a brilliant roster of Norwegian writers. Check out the full listings here.
Harlequin’s Millions shortlisted for 2015 BTBA!
Harlequin’s Millions by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from the Czech by Stacey Knecht, is shortlisted for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award! The two winning books will be announced at BookExpo America at 2:30pm on Wednesday, May 27th, at the Eastside Stage in
Knausgaard interviewed for Forum with Michael Krasny
Michael Krasny interviewed Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle, for today's episode of Forum. You can listen to it here.
Scholastique Mukasonga receives the 2015 Prix Bernheim
Congratulations to Scholastique Mukasonga, author of Our Lady of the Nile, recipient of Fondation du Judaïsme's 2015 Prix Bernheim! Read more here.
Latin America’s rural dream – The Economist on Héctor Abad's La Oculta
La Oculta ("The Hideaway”) is the Ángels’ 150-year-old family farm in Antoquia, Colombia’s most entrepreneurial and conservative province. Mr Abad’s finely crafted novel not only expounds its narrators’ contrasting attitudes towards sex, rural life and tradition in a modernising country,