Hector Abad interview with Eleanor Wachtel
The latest episode of Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel features one of our favorite Colombian authors, Hector Abad. From the Hay-Cartagena Festival, the prolific Colombian writer and essayist, Hector Abad talks about his moving memoir Oblivion is a memorial to his
Our Lady of the Nile wins the Grand Prix of the French Voices Award!
Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady of the Nile was awarded the prestigious French Voices Award for 2014. This year, the French Voices grant sponsored by the French Embassy's Cultural Services went to twelve innovative translations that “represent new trends in French fiction and underrepresented perspectives in French
In Other Words: Melanie Mauthner
Melanie Mauthner, who translated Scholastique Mukasonga's Our Lady of the Nile, was published in the British Centre for Literary Translation's publication In Other Words.
VIDEO: Festival Neue Literatur – Curator's Welcome
Festival Neue Literatur's 2014 curator, Tess Lewis, presents a brief description of the upcoming festival this February 28 – March 2, 2014. Click to watch the Curator's Welcome.
Jonathan Lethem’s Hero: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Jonathan Lethem wrote about his admiration for Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series for The Guardian. Read the full article here!
NPR’s Book News: "The Expedition To The Baobab Tree"
NPR mentioned Guernica's excerpt of The Expedition to the Baobab Tree in its Book News! For Guernica, J.M. Coetzee translates Wilma Stockenström's story The Expedition to the Baobab Tree from Afrikaans: "A few days ago I had seen the hammerhead shark leaping in spasms there on the beach where
My Struggle: Book Two Among WSJ Books of the Year
Sam Sacks listed My Struggle: Book Two among the best books of 2013 in a roundup for The Wall Street Journal: But that was only the surface—if you did a little digging, you were likely to tap into wellsprings of brilliance and vitality.
Archipelago Receives NEA Art Works Grant!
Grant One of 895 NEA Art Works Grants Funded Nationwide National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that Archipelago Books is one of 895 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. This grant will
Breytenbach's Farewell to Madiba
Breyten Breytenbach wrote a moving piece on the passing of Nelson Mandela for Harper's, "The Leaving of Madiba": Madiba is leaving us. As he enters the timelessness of exile, he leaves behind him a country that he had helped forge. But
Review of Even Now in AGENDA (Belgium)
Belgian critic Michael Bellon reviewed Hugo Claus's Even Now, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, for AGENDA: Colmer always opts to render the vitality and the natural power of the language rather than slavishly copying the rhymes, alliterations, and meanings. In the epilogue,