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Haikasoru: Translating Genre from Japan
Earlier this week, The World SF Blog paid tribute to Haikasoru, an imprint of VIZ Media focusing on English-language translations of Japanese science fiction and fantasy. Haikasoru’s editorial...
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Ellen Elias-Bursac & Albahari’s Amusing Leeches
Ellen Elias-Bursaċ has plenty of experience translating the Serbian author David Albahari—her English-language version of his novel Götz and Meyer won the ALTA Translation Award and was tapped for the...
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Michael F. Moore & the Voice of Quiet Chaos
Michael F. Moore describes Sandro Veronesi’s Quiet Chaos, which he translated from the Italian, as “driven not so much by plot or character as by a dynamic narrative voice,” and you’ll see what he...
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Marian Schwartz on Getting the Voices Right
Andrei Gelasimov’s Thirst is a short but powerful novel about Kostya, a Russian soldier who, burned beyond recognition in Chechnya, now spends most of his days drinking alone in his apartment,...
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Laurie Thompson: Introducing Stig Dagerman
Stig Dagerman is a Swedish author from the mid-20th century I hadn’t known about before coming across Island of the Doomed, but in talking with that novel’s translator, Laurie Thompson, I learned a...
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Liesl Schillinger: Literary Translation as Focused Play
Some of you may know Liesl Schillinger as a critic for the New York Times Book Review, or seen her byline on cultural essays and articles at various other publications. She’s also a literary...
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Andrea G. Labinger: The Story Continues
Liliana Heker’s The End of the Story is a powerful novel about Argentinean politics, a novel which sparked much controversy when it was published in 1996—particularly for its portrayal of a...
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Lisa Dillman: Finding Me’s Voice
photo via Words Without Borders Translating a first-person narrator into English from another language can be a challenge under any circumstances, but when that narrator has a non-standard emotional...
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Adriana Hunter: Discovering Fresh Climates
photo: Peirene Press Over the last decade or so, Adriana Hunter has become one of the leading English-language translators of contemporary French literature, but with Climates, she’s taken on...
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Jody Gladding & Elizabeth Deshays: Two Translators Take On The Eleven
photo via Jody Gladding Pierre Michon’s The Eleven is the story of a French painter who never existed: Corentin, “the Tiepolo of the Terror,” so called because of his most famous work, a group...
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Tiina Nunnally & the Long-Awaited Debut of Sigrid Undset
photo via AATIA.org As a translator, Tiina Nunnally has had a long-term relationship with the early 20th-century Norwegian author Sigrid Undset; you may have seen the monster-sized omnibus edition of...
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How Sandra Smith Became a Translator
photo courtesy Sandra Smith I confess that I have huge gaps in my reading of the world literary canon, including just about all the French classics. But I’ve begun to remedy that situation, at least...
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William Hutchins and Amir Tag Elsir
photo: Nimah Ismail Nawwab A famous Sudanese writer meets an annoyingly odd man at the signing for his latest novel; later, having been dragged to a lecture he doesn’t particularly care to attend,...
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Amy B. Reid: Conversations Overheard
photo: courtesy Amy Reid Lately, whenever I can steal a few moments to read uninterrupted, I’ve been diving into Patrice Nganang’s Mount Pleasant, as translated by Amy Baram Reid. It’s a fantastic...
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Peter Bush’s No-Hope Sucklers
photo: courtesy Peter Bush Black Bread is one of those novels that builds slowly, through the accrued detail of seemingly disconnected scenes… or, let’s say, a string of scenes where the narrative...
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Lazer Lederhendler’s French-English Wall
photo courtesy Biblioasis Canadian novelist Catherine Leroux’s second book, The Party Wall, won the Quebec Booksellers Prize and the Prix France Québec when it was first published in French in 2014....
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May-Brit Akerholt: “Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated!”
photo courtesy May-Brit Akerholt A few weeks ago, I was invited to attend a reception at the Norwegian consulate, where I got to meet the novelist Edy Poppy, who was celebrating her American...
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