Polish writer and translator Jacek Dehnel joins American translator Bill Johnston to discuss the epic in Polish literature, from the 19th century to contemporary works. Johnston will talk about his new translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz or the Last Foray in Lithuania, […]
Writer and professor Jonathan Brent is joined by translator Marian Schwartz to discuss her new translation of Leonid Yuzefovich's Horsemen of the Sands from the Russian. Marian Schwartz has translated over sixty volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction, history, biography, […]
The Kosciuszko Foundation is pleased to host an evening with Prof. Bill Johnston, acclaimed translator of literature from Polish to English, winner of 2012 PEN Translation Prize and Three Percent's Best Translated Book Award. Prof. Johnston will present his most recent […]
Please join us for PENN's 5th installment of their Hopscotch Translation Series, featuring KAREN EMMERICH, reading from her translation of Christos Ikonomou's Good Will Come From the Sea and JACOB MOE, reading from his translation of Maria Mitsora's On My Aunt's Shallow Grave White […]
Join us at 192 Books for a celebration of Christos Ikonomou's Good Will Come From the Sea. Translator Karen Emmerich will discuss her deft translation of this burning, empathetic collection with Sophia Efthimiatou, Associate Director of the Onassis Foundation. Come for […]
Join us at the Deutsches House for our launch of Intimate Ties, two novellas by Robert Musil. The novel’s translator Peter Wortsman will be joined in conversation by Austrian literary scholar Kathrin Holzermeyr-Rosenfield, who translated the original text into Portuguese, […]
Donald Nicholson-Smith was born in Manchester, England and is a longtime resident of New York City. His translations, ranging from psychoanalysis and social criticism to crime fiction, include works by Thierry Jonquet, Guy Debord, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, […]
Scholastique Mukasonga belongs to a group of pioneering authors who have broken the silence and share stories of survival. Genocide in Rwanda displaced Scholastique and her family, forcing them to flee their home, first to Burundi and later to France. […]
Scholastique Mukasonga belongs to a group of pioneering authors who have broken the silence and share stories of survival. Genocide in Rwanda displaced Scholastique and her family, forcing them to flee their home, first to Burundi and later to France. […]
Scholastique Mukasonga belongs to a group of pioneering authors who have broken the silence and share stories of survival. Genocide in Rwanda displaced Scholastique and her family, forcing them to flee their home, first to Burundi and later to France. […]