Open Letter Books to Receive $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Rochester, NY—National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $30 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $40,000 to Open Letter Books for the publication of six works of international ...
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Two Voices Salon with translator Chris Andrews
Presented by the Center for the Art of Translation Chris Andrews joins us to talk about his newest translation, Ema, the Captive, from the prolific Argentine writer César Aira. This event is free and open to the public. When: December 8, 2016; doors open at 5:30, event starts at 6:00 Where: Center for the Art of ...
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GoodReads Giveaway of "Frontier"
Best Translated Book Award winner Can Xue is back with a new novel, Frontier, (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping with an introduction by Porochista Khakpour), which is every bit as wonderfully strange and complex as anything she’s written to date. You can win a copy through GoodReads simply by clicking on the ...
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Keeping the Foreign in Translated Literature: a Dispatch from the Oklahoma Prairie George Henson
George Henson is a translator of contemporary Latin American and Spanish prose, a contributing editor for World Literature Today and Asymptote, and a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma. For more information on the BTBA, “like” our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. And check back here each week for a ...
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Two Voices Salon with translator Donald Nicholson-Smith
Presented by the Center for the Art of Translation Join us at a special Two Voices Salon to celebrate the release of prize-winning Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi’s latest book, In Praise of Defeat, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. This event is free and open to the public. When: November 10, ...
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Andrés Neuman & Eduardo Rabasa @ Brazos Bookstore
Join the gang at Brazos Bookstore for a reading and chat with Andres Neuman on his How to Travel without Seeing and Eduardo Rabasa on his A Zero-Sum Game. When: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 – 7:00pm Where: 2421 Bissonnet StreetHouston, TX 77005 For more information, go ...
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GoodReads Giveaway for "Radiant Terminus"
Part Jessica Jones, part China Miéville, Radiant Terminus (trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman) is one of Antoine Volodine’s craziest, longest, and most compelling books to date. And you can win a copy simply by entering the GoodReads contest below. The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine’s to be translated ...
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