3:AM Magazine interviews Karl Ove Knausgaard
Read an interview with Karl Ove Kanausgaard in 3:AM Magazine here.
Translators Reflections: Barbara Bogoczek on Różewicz’s Mother Departs
Mother Departs is an extremely personal autobiographical work by one of the greatest writers of our time, set against the epic conflicts of the 20th century. It combines many genres – poetry, jokes, intimate diaries written through tears, ethnographic snapshots of peasant
The New Yorker Runs an Excerpt of My Struggle: Book Two
James Wood, who reviewed Book One of My Struggle last year in The New Yorker (read his piece here), writes the introduction to an excerpt on the blog of The New Yorker. Read it here.
Prehistoric Times and Wheel With a Single Spoke named Best Translated Book Award finalists
Congratulations to Sean Cotter and Alyson Waters! Cotter's translation from the Romanian of Nichita Stanescu's Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems has been named a Best Translated Book Award finalist in poetry. In the category of fiction, Waters's translation from the French of Eric
Celebrating Antonio Tabucchi
March 25th marks the first anniversary of Antonio Tabucchi's passing. Born in Pisa in 1943, he died in Lisbon, his adopted home, on the 25th of March, 2012. Regarded as one of the most innovative and important writers of postwar
Three titles on the Best Translated Book Awards longlist!
Archipelago Books has three titles on Three Percent's Best Translated Books Award longlist: Eric Chevillard's Prehistoric Times, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, Miljenko Jergovic's Mama Leone, translated from the Croatian by David Williams, and Karl Ove Knausgaard's My
Read about Karl Ove Knausgaard in The New York Times Blog
You can read about Karl Ove Knausgaard and the controversy surrounding My Struggle here. Lauded by critics as a literary feat (the first volume appeared in English last summer), the book played less well among Knausgaard’s own family members. Part fiction, part memoir,
Read Karl Ove Knausgaard's essay on the aurora borealis
Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle, writes for The New York Times Magazine on the phenomenon of the aurora borealis in Norway, accompanied by photos by Simon Norfolk.
Prehistoric Times is a finalist for the French-American Foundation's Translation Prize!
Visit the French-American foundation website to find out more about the Prize, Prehistoric Times, and the other finalists.
CBC Karl Ove Knausgaard Interview with Eleanor Wachtel
Karl Ove Knausgaard's six volume memoir My Struggle has won every Norwegian prize, has been hailed as "a masterpiece", and was called "the greatest account of our generation" by Norway's Culture Minister. Knausgaard writes (and speaks) with raw honesty. Listen to the CBC