Read a Conversation Between Two Translators: Chloe Garcia Roberts and Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Garcia Roberts, the translator of our forthcoming Feather, a children’s book by Cao Wenxuan, interviews Chloe Aridjis, the translator of The Child Poet by Homero Aridjis for the column, The Critical Flame…
Scholastique Mukasonga attends the 2017 International Literary Festival of Paraty
The Brazilian translations of Scholastique Mukasonga‘s Barefoot Woman (forthcoming English translation by Jordan Stump) and Our Lady of the Nile were ranked among the top five bestselling books at FLIP 2017,…
Bachtyar Ali wins 2017 Nelly Sachs Prize
Bachtyar Ali has been awarded the prestigious Nelly Sachs Prize, consisting of 15,000 Euro. The prize has been granted biennially since 1961. Former laureates include Elias Canetti, Nadine Gordimer, Milan…
Elizabeth Harris receives Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
We’re excited to announce that translator Elizabeth Harris has been awarded a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to support her translation of Antonio Tabucchi’s, Stories with…
Opening the Gate of the Sun
Read Adam Shatz’s LRB post on the removal of 250 Palestinians from Bab al-Shams, which takes its name from Elias Khoury’s novel Gate of the Sun. ‘The imaginary…
Karl Ove Knausgaard Interview: 'I have given away my soul'
Real consequences of writing the truth: Knausgaard discusses his life in the wake of MY STRUGGLE, forthcoming in May from Archipelago.
Jennifer Shyue on navigating identities and mother tongues in The Common
Jennifer Shyue, translator of Julia Wong Kcomt’s forthcoming Bi-rey-nato, reflects on the different layers of her identity as a Taiwanese-American translator of Spanish. She writes about belonging and/or not…
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, Vol I: Bucharest & Its Bookstores
(Image courtesy of My Search For Sunshine Tumblr) In honor of our forthcoming publication of Mircea Cărtărescu‘s Blinding, Archipelago’s Bronwen Durocher takes us on a tour of Bucharest–through its bookstores. Bucharest is…