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,
Translating Knausgaard: An Interview with Don Bartlett
Meet Karl Ove Knausgaard's translator Don Bartlett, interviewed by Scott Esposito for The Paris Review. When did you first encounter My Struggle? I went to a panel discussion in London with three Norwegian writers, led by someone I knew was clued up on Norwegian literature.
Maureen Freely on translation, Istanbul and Orhan Pamuk in NYRB
Don't miss Archipelago translator Maureen Freely's beautiful essay "Seeing Istanbul Again" on the New York Review of Books' blog. Years later, when I was translating Orhan Pamuk’s memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City, I would read his passage on childhood daydreaming
Knausgaard on the story of Cain and Abel in The Atlantic
I first heard the Cain and Abel story at school, when I was seven or eight. My teacher told it to our class, and it very much made an impression on me. I returned to it later when I was
John Freeman Interviews Knausgaard for LitHub
John Freeman has just interviewed Karl Ove Knausgaard for LitHub. He writes: Begun when he was 39, feeling intimations of mortality and a crushing desire to “write something exceptional one day,” My Struggle is a colossus, a Proustian megabook of memory