Tim Parks on Why Translation Matters in The New York Review of Books
Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958 In 2010, renowned author and Archipelago translator Tim Parks offered an exceptional insight into the practice of translation, its thanklessness when done well, and why it matters for fiction writing all over the world, not just in
BOOK CURRENTS: Tanpinar & the Istanbul protests
Image Courtesy of Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press To launch BOOK CURRENTS, a series of posts that looks at current events through international literature, we asked one of our interns, Scott Beauchamp, to use one of our books to briefly reflect on some
Walts of the Fairy Tale: Benjamin & Disney
I’ve been reading (wrestling?) with some essays by German thinker and translator Walter Benjamin lately. Many of his essays relate directly to the work we do here at Archipelago Books, so over the next few Tuesdays, I’ll be pulling some
New Website!
It's here! Welcome to our brand-new, snazzy website. For months, we've been quietly updating, and today, we finally launch! Check out some of the new features: A seamless way to shop for books without leaving our website E-books for sale (as a downloadable epub or PDF
"Completely Without Dignity": the Paris Review Interviews Karl Ove Knausgaard
Read an interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard and The Paris Review's Jesse Barron here. Jesse Barron: Did the writing of Min Kamp give you what you were hoping for? Knausgaard: I can’t speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better
Rave review in New York Times Book Review of Knausgaard’s My Struggle Book Two
Read the full review here. Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel? The short answer is that it is breathtakingly good, and so you cannot stop yourself, and would not
Bookforum Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Read Bookforum's Trevor Laurence Jockims interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard here. In Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s mammoth, six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, the trivial and the momentous mix, change places, and push the work beyond the limits of categorization. At once a Proustian chronicle of
Alyson Waters awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of Eric Chevillard’s Prehistoric Times
Alyson Waters has won the 26th annual French-American Translation Prize for the best French to English translation of fiction. The French-American Foundation received 64 submissions to the Translation Prize this year from more than 35 American publishers. The jury, which includes Linda
"The Silence Settling Within Us": Rachel Hadas on Yannis Ritsos in the Times Literary Supplement
Excerpt from Rachel Hadas' "Freelance" in the May issue of the TLS: "
Wheel With a Single Spoke and Other Poems wins The Best Translated Book Award
Sean Cotter's translation of Nichita Stanescu's Wheel With a Single Spoke and Other Poems has won this year's Best Translated Book Award! Click through for the full announcement.