The Independent Reviews Blinding and Names My Struggle & Blinding Books of the Year 2013
Boyd Tonkin reviewed Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, for The Independent: Stitched into the multi-stranded fabric of Blinding is a tender, mesmerically precise account of a humble Bucharest upbringing and its formative effects: "The me of today englobes
Audun Lindholm Interviews Mircea Cărtărescu for The Quarterly Conversation:
Enlightening interview with Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding (trans. by Sean Cotter), by Audun Lindholm in The Quarterly Conversation: To the contrary, I would say that I have not actually exploredBucharest during the past fifteen years; I have invented the city. The Bucharest of Blinding is a
Translator Stacey Knecht on Hrabal
Archipelago translator Stacey Knecht has published an insightful piece on her connection with Hrabal and his work on the blog Slavische Studies: Admittedly, I first began to study Czech because I wanted to read Hrabal’s work in the original. The English
Celebrate the release of EVEN NOW at Passa Porta in Brussels!
Please join David Colmer, Jan Decleir, and Mark Schaevers at Passa Porta to celebrate the release of EVEN NOW Selected Poems of HUGO CLAUS translated from the Dutch by David Colmer with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom —The event will feature a reading of Claus's poems by
Translator Amaia Gabantxo in Dance Collaboration
Check out this video of a dance collaboration with Archipelago translator Amaia Gabantxo (Plants Don't Drink Coffee). Here's a description from the Vimeo site: "Palo a Palo" is a collaboration between Amaia Gabantxo and Andrea Peterson. It combines words and movement, song and dance
BLINDING Receives Rave Review in Words Without Borders
Carla Baricz has written a fantastic review of Mircea Cărtărescu's BLINDING for Words Without Borders: Sean Cotter has done a masterful, inspired job with the translation. The meditative, Baroque rhythms of Cărtărescu’s Romanian flow into graceful, vigorous English thanks to Cotter
Richard Sieburth on Georg Büchner’s 200th Birthday
GUEST POST: In honor of German author Georg Büchner’s 200th birthday, Lenz translator Richard Sieburth celebrates this historic day: Oct. 17 is the bicentenary of Georg Büchner's birth--a date he shares with his distant American doppelgänger, Nathaniel West. According to Paul Celan (in
BLINDING Reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books!
Bogdan Suceavă just wrote a beautiful review of Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, for the Los Angeles Review of Books: Reading Cotter’s Blinding feels like reading a work originally conceived in English. Many passages of the book are written like a
BLINDING Reviewed in the Star Tribune
Malcolm Forbes reviews Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, for the Minneapolis Star Tribune : Cartarescu’s magical mystery tour has begun. Memories warp into fantasies and cityscape melts in and out of dreamscape. Segments of realism (the narrator’s family’s
David Colmer wins 2013 Vondel Translation Prize
Congrats, David! From the official press release: The Vondel Translation Prize 2013 has been awarded to David Colmer for The Misfortunates, his translation into English of De helaasheid der dingen by Dimitri Verhulst. The jury was made up of British critic Paul Binding (Times