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March 14th, 2016

Translation on Tap in NYC, March 16 – 31, 2016

And here’s what the second half of March has to offer:

Thursday, March 17:

A gathering of translators celebrating the appearance of two new works by Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano: Chris Clark, Mark Polizzotti, and Damion Searls comparing notes about their translations of his work. More information here. Community Bookstore, 143 7th Ave., Brooklyn, 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 19:

Segue series: Esteemed translator-poet (and editor, publisher, essayist) Rosmarie Read More…

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March 13th, 2016

Apply Now for a Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship to Attend ALTA

I used to see Peter Jansen every so often at Goethe Institut events at the University of Chicago and sometimes also at ALTA – a kind and incredibly knowledgable professor emeritus who translated from German (scholarly books, but also various works by Thomas Bernhard that he co-translated with Kenneth J. Northcott, such as the three plays collected in Histrionics, and Three Novellas). He taught until his retirement Read More…

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March 10th, 2016

2016 Man Booker International Longlist Announced

The new International Man Booker International Prize is a big deal for literary translators, with the enormous £50,000 purse equally split between author and translator of the winning book. With the huge publicity inevitably surrounding such a major award, it is certain to bring welcome attention to literature in translation, a great boon to us and support of our work. Many of us have been thinking and writing these days about the lack of gender balance among translated authors – most Read More…

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March 1st, 2016

2016 PEN Translation Awards Announced

PEN America (which appears to be the new name of the PEN American Center, not to be confused with the California-based PEN USA) has just announced the winners of its 2016 translation awards.

I’m delighted to see that the PEN Translation Prize ($3,000, for a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2015) has gone to a newcomer on the scene whose first book just happened to be the enormous and difficult The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (translated from the Portuguese and published by New Directions). Big congratulations, Read More…

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February 26th, 2016

Translating for Cervantes

April 22, 2016 will mark the four-hundredth anniversary of Cervantes’s death. To commemorate the occasion, the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University is collecting translations of the following sentence from the prologue to Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares:

[Y]o soy el primero que he novelado en lengua castellana, que las muchas novelas que en ella andan impresas todas son traducidas de lenguas estranjeras, y éstas son mías propias, no imitadas ni hurtadas: mi ingenio las engendró, y las parió mi pluma, y van creciendo en los brazos de la estampa.

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