John Domini reviews Time Ages in a Hurry for the Brooklyn Rail
Time Ages In a Hurry: Stories Antonio Tabucchi (Archipelago Books, 2015) Over in Italy, Time Ages In a Hurry was one of a spate of Antonio Tabucchi titles preceding his death in early 2012. He wasn’t that old, 68, but he’d long been
Translator Martha Cooley’s Interview with Village of Crickets
Martha Cooley, who translated Antonio Tabucchi's Time Ages in a Hurry, recently did a wonderful interview with Village of Crickets. She says of Tabucchi: When I look at my own engagement with Tabucchi, I always go back to that novel and the incredible rush I
LA Review of Books takes on My Struggle
The LA Review of Books has posted a three-part essay on Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle. In the first installment of this fascinating piece, William Pierce discusses, among other things, Knausgaard's narrator: Knausgaard brings back landscape and scale, he restores object and sequence: he attempts (and
Cărtărescu’s Blinding wins the 2015 Leipzig Book Award
Congratulations to Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, winner of the 2015 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding! The jury committee stated: Transcending all conceivable boundaries, this monumental and unbridled work of prose is, in equal measure, a künstlerroman, an urban critique and
In Conversation: Karl Ove Knausgaard & Will Heyward
This conversation with Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard took place on Sunday, September 23, 2012, on a park bench not far from the bustle of the Brooklyn Book Festival. At that stage, only the first volume of Knausgaard’s masterpiece, My
MY SAGA – Knausgaard on his recent travels in North America in NYT Magazine
"If there was one thing I had been looking forward to, and had intended to base my article on, it was the sound of adventure that American place names evoked. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania. All my life
Pla ‘Against’ the Bloomsbury Group – An Interview with Translator Peter Bush
We're happy to share this recent translation of the Catalan magazine El Pais's lovely interview with translator Peter Bush. Bush's forthcoming translation of Josep Pla's Life Embitters will be published by Archipelago May 5. Pla ‘Against’ the Bloomsbury Group “It was really difficult to translate Pla’s
Vote for Stacey Knecht’s translation of Hrabal!
Congratulations to Stacey Knecht, whose translation from the Czech of Bohumil Hrabal's Harlequin's Millions has just been named a finalist for the 2014 Typographical Translation Award! You can read more about the award by visiting the Typographical site, here.
Tess Lewis Wins Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize
Congratulations to translator Tess Lewis whose translation of Maja Haderlap's Angel of Oblivion has been chosen by the Austrian Cultural Forum as the 2015 Translation Prize Winner. Tess Lewis's translation of Angel of Oblivion will be published by Archipelago in the near
Remembering Tomaž Šalamun
The celebrated Slovenian poet, Tomaž Šalamun, passed away on December 27, 2014. Read a touching tribute to Šalamun by his friend and fellow poet, Christopher Merrill, here. ECLIPSE I will take nails, long nails and hammer them into my body. Very very gently, very very slowly, so it will last longer. I will