The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2021

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2021

Featuring Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami, Tove Ditlevsen, Ai Weiwei, Mieko Kawakami, and more

By Book Marks | December 17, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Transit Books

Interview with an Indie Press: Transit Books

On Books that Begin as an “Intimate Conversation”

By Corinne Segal | December 17, 2021

Valerie Miles on the Craft of Curating Translators

Valerie Miles on the Craft of Curating Translators

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | December 10, 2021

How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

Part Five of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”

By The Cosmic Library | December 7, 2021

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

“You are ventriloquist and chameleon.”

By Lydia Davis | December 3, 2021

How to Reframe the Strangeness of <em>The Plague</em> as Sci-Fi Noir

How to Reframe the Strangeness of The Plague as Sci-Fi Noir

Sunra Thompson on Finding Inspiration in "Low" Genres to Reimagine Albert Camus

By Sunra Thompson | November 24, 2021

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“Territories of the Uncanny.” A Reading List of the Irreal

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The Methodology of Musicality: On Translating the Literary Lyricism of The Last One

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To All the Gays of Seoul: On Translating Sang Young Park

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Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur

Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur

The Best of Contemporary German Writing in New York

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Interview with an Indie Press: Two Lines Press

Interview with an Indie Press: Two Lines Press

On Focusing on Literature in Translation

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On the Politics of Language in Nigerian Literature

On the Politics of Language in Nigerian Literature

Ọlájídé Salawu Examines the Colonial Grounding of the Country's Literary Industry

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Defamiliarizing the Mother Tongue: On Immigration’s Impact on Learning and Losing Language

Defamiliarizing the Mother Tongue: On Immigration’s Impact on Learning and Losing Language

Dr. Julie Sedivy Discusses the Writing Possibilities Czech Offers Her

By Julie Sedivy | October 8, 2021

The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel.

The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel.

By Jonny Diamond | October 4, 2021

It’s time to start naming a book’s translator on the cover.

It’s time to start naming a book’s translator on the cover.

By Jonny Diamond | September 30, 2021

On Loving, Losing, and Returning to Poetry

On Loving, Losing, and Returning to Poetry

Ari Honarvar Traces Her Relationship to Rumi, Her Mother, and Her Persian Identity

By Ari Honarvar | September 28, 2021

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