Iceland Confirmed for Frankfurt Book Fair
According to Publisher’s Lunch: Iceland has formally signed on as the guest honor for the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2011. FBF director Jurgen Boos says in the announcement, “Iceland is one of the smallest book markets worldwide, but unbelievably productive. Literature has shaped the identity of this European ...
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Daniel Hahn on Translatedfiction.org.uk
The Literary Saloon pointed out another new UK-based translation site: this time Booktrust’s Translated Ficion. One of the first articles on the site is from Daniel Hahn, translator of one of my favorite authors, Jose Eduardo Agualusa. He has a refreshingly different take on the low number of translations that appear ...
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Bill Johnston Interview
Bill Johnston, who is translating Jerzy Pilch’s The Mighty Angel for us, has an interview on Polish Writing, where he discusses Magdalena Tulli and translation. ...
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Juan Gelman wins the Cervantes Prize
Argentine poet Juan Gelman has received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honour. Gelman, who receives 90,000 euros with the award, is considered Argentina’s poet laureate. His prolific work addresses among other issues the pain of loss under military juntas that ruled ...
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Munson on Stanišić
Sam Munson has some not very nice things to say about Saša Stanišić‘s How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone: While the art of catastrophe will tolerate whole constellations of novelistic approaches, it cannot tolerate authorial disingenuousness, which pickles such efforts, turning insights sour, paltry, and ...
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Idlewild set to open
David Del Vecchio is all set to open Idlewild Books in NYC: “I was in a chain bookstore and realized I would have to go to five different sections to get what I needed—a travel guide, a map, a language book, a novel,” he noted. “At Idlewild, everything will be shelved by country, and in the case of the United ...
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openletterbooks.org is live!
We’re proud to announce that the official website of Open Letter, openletterbooks.org, is online now. You can browse our catalog, subscribe to our rss feed to keep up with the latest news, or subscribe to our list (either to a single season or the whole year) and get a 20% discount on our books! To kick things off, ...
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