Watch Scholastique Mukasonga Speak at Festival Albertine 2016
Scholastique Mukasonga, author of the award-winning Our Lady of the Nile and the freshly released memoir Cockroaches, joined Laurent Dubois, Maboula Soumahoro, Darryl Pinckney, and Chris Jackson for a panel discussion titled “Europe and America in the Black Literary Imagination” as part
Wayward Heroes is Out Today! Read an Excerpt on the Tin House Blog
Wayward Heroes by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness and translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton is now officially out and available for purchase. Our friends over at Tin House have published an excerpt of the novel over on their blog, which
Miljenko Jergovic Compares Sarajevo and Aleppo in The New York Times
Miljenko Jergovic, author of Sarajevo Marlboro, has written a powerful and moving meditation comparing and contrasting the international reaction to the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War and the current and ongoing siege of Aleppo in Syria. You can read
Cockroaches Featured on Words Without Borders October Watchlist
Our friends over at Words Without Borders have included our forthcoming Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga and translated from the French by Jordan Stump as part of their October Watchlist. Cockroaches finds itself amongst many other exciting titles. WWB books editor M Bartley Seigel writes of Cockroaches: "At
Read an Extract from Wayward Heroes over at Asymptote
Our friends over at Asymptote have just published an extract of our forthcoming Wayward Heroes by Halldór Laxness and translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton. The novel by the only Icelandic Nobel Laureate is slated for release November 1st. You can read
Read an Extract of Cockroaches on the Tin House Blog
Our friends over at Tin House have published an excerpt from Scholastique Mukasonga's upcoming Cockroaches, which is slated for release on the 25th of October and translated from the French by Jordan Stump. The extract is titled "1968-1971: A Humiliated Student,"
Sean Cotter on translating Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding
Loren Kleinman, author and contributing writer to The Huffington Post, sat down with Sean Cotter to discuss his initial reactions and process of translating the Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding from Romanian to English. "I decided to translate Blinding after providing a sample
Tristano Dies: A Life Shortlisted for 2016 Italian Prose in Translation Award
Tristano Dies: A Life by Antonio Tabucchi and translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris has just been shortlisted for the 2016 Italian Prose in Translation Award. Erik Noonan of Carte Blanche wrote that "Tabucchi’s sensuous and allusive
Three Pieces from Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka on The Paris Review Blog
The Paris Review blog has published three selections today from our forthcoming Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka, translated by Peter Wortsman. Nicole Rudick of The Paris Review writes that the "trio of prose nuggets" might be parables or something else entirely, but
Konundrum, Selected Prose of Franz Kafka Named One of 10 Books You Should Read this September by BBC
Jane Ciabattari of the BBC chose Konundrum as one of the ten books you should read this September. Ciabattari praised translator Peter Wortsman's "lucid and rhythmic" rendering of a selection of works by the classic author. Wortsman's translation provides plenty of