Peter Wortsman, whose translations of selections of Franz Kafka were just highly praised by the BBC, will be joined by poet Geoffrey O'Brien to discuss the new release and muse on all things literary, artistic, and Kafkaesque at Community Bookstore in […]
Scholastique Mukasonga, author of the award-winning Our Lady of the Nile and the freshly released memoir Cockroaches, will join Laurent Dubois, Maboula Soumahoro, Darryl Pinckney, and Chris Jackson for a panel discussion titled "Europe and America in the Black Literary Imagination" as part […]
Scholastique Mukasonga, whose highly anticipated memoir Cockroaches is out in October, will be joined by the writer Hisham Matar at 92Y in New York City on November 7th at 8 PM for a conversation focused on the authors' experiences with violence and […]
Join us at the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco for a special Two Voices Salon to celebrate the release of prize-winning Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi's latest book, In Praise of Defeat, translated from the French by […]
Peter Wortsman, translator of Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka, will be joined by Tess Lewis, translator most recently of Angel of Oblivion, at the NYU Deustches Haus for a reading and evening of conversation about Konundrum, the art of translation, and all […]
Translator Mary Ann Newman will speak at the King Juan Carlos Center at NYU about Private Life by Josep Maria de Sagarra, which she translated from the Catalan. Join us for what is sure to be an interesting conversation. The talk is […]
Elsewhere Editions, Archipelago Books' brand-new international children’s imprint, will launch this spring, “devoted to translating imaginative works of children’s literature from all corners of the world.” Ahead of that launch, mastermind editors Jill Schoolman and Kendall Storey offer a special […]
Named after Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s own sharp self-description, Vulture in a Cage is the most extensive collection of the 11th century Hebrew poet’s works ever to be published in English. Weighty poems of praise, lament, and complaint sit alongside devotional poetry, love poetry, […]
Author and Translator Raymond P. Scheindlin will present his new translation of Vulture in a Cage, and discuss its original author, Solomon Ibn Gabirol who is one of the most celebrated Andalusian-Hebrew poets and philosophers of the 11th century. Weighty poems of praise, lament, and […]
Named after Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s own sharp self-description, Vulture in a Cage is the most extensive collection of the 11th century Hebrew poet’s works ever to be published in English. Weighty poems of praise, lament, and complaint sit alongside devotional […]