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On the 15-Year Journey to Translating Selim Özdoğan’s <em>The Blacksmith’s Daughter</em>

On the 15-Year Journey to Translating Selim Özdoğan’s The Blacksmith’s Daughter

A Conversation Between Katy Derbyshire and Ayça Türkoğlu

By Literary Hub | April 2, 2021

Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?

Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?

Elisa Sotgiu on Reading Gender and Class in One of the Great Literary Mysteries of Our Time

By Elisa Sotgiu | March 31, 2021

Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation

Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation

The Author of Selected Translations In Conversation with Peter Cole

By Peter Cole | March 26, 2021

Translating Tove Ditlevsen: ‘It Is Not the Voice of Someone Who Is Suffering’

Translating Tove Ditlevsen: ‘It Is Not the Voice of Someone Who Is Suffering’

Michael Favala Goldman in Conversation with Catherine Lacey on Well-Versed

By Well-Versed | March 26, 2021

Betina González on Economic Precarity, End Times, and<br> Killer Deer

Betina González on Economic Precarity, End Times, and
Killer Deer

The Author of American Delirium Speaks With Yuri Herrera

By Yuri Herrera | March 8, 2021

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

Simon Leser on the Curious Case of Joseph Andras

By Simon Leser | February 26, 2021

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Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

By Kathryn Nuernberger | February 19, 2021

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

By Lara Vergnaud | February 8, 2021

How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

By An Tran | February 3, 2021

How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

Translator Will Schutt on Finding the Voices of a Father and Son

By Will Schutt | January 12, 2021

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

Damiano Abeni: Transforming Texts as a Performing Art

By Damiano Abeni | December 14, 2020

The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir <br>on Paul Celan

The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir 
on Paul Celan

Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard Consider the Texture of Language, Poetics, and Linguistic Dispossession

By Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard | December 9, 2020

On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene

On Translating the Little Known Italian Novel That Anticipated the Anthropocene

Frederika Randall Considers the Life and Solitude of Guido Morselli

By Frederika Randall | December 7, 2020

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian<br> Epic to Life

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
Epic to Life

Translator Tiina Nunnally on the Making of Olav Audunssøn

By Tiina Nunnally | November 12, 2020

Tracy K. Smith on Translating<br> the World of Yi Lei

Tracy K. Smith on Translating
the World of Yi Lei

"She was and remains a revolutionary voice"

By Tracy K. Smith | November 11, 2020

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a 'Mother Tongue'

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a 'Mother Tongue'

From Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings, Part of PEN's Translating the Future

By Literary Hub | October 23, 2020

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