2009 Nike Award Shortlist
Last week they announced the shortlist for the prestigious NIKE Award, which will be awarded on October 4th. The shortlist: The Flypaper Factory, Andrzej Bart (WAB) The writer narrates the imaginary Łódź trial of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Łódź Ghetto. Bambino, Inga Iwasiów (Świat ...
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NEA grants and Open Letter
The National Endowment for the Arts just announced its 2010 winners of the Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects. And there’s a few Open Letter connections this year. First, Charlotte Mandell won a grant to translate Mathias Enard’s Zone (“The narrative unfolds during a train journey from Milan ...
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Center for the Art of Translation Blog
The Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco has (finally?) started a weblog. It’s called Two Words, and Scott Esposito, who, you know, has some experience in the field, is running it. According to an e-mail they sent out yesterday: We’re eager to make the blog a resource for people who love ...
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Thirlwell on Hrabal
I don’t usually like to re-post things that have appeared on The Literary Review, mainly because I think our site and Michael’s have an audience Venn diagram that looks more like a single big circle than two overlapping ones, but this is too good to pass up. This weekend, Adam Thirlwell had a piece in The ...
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Ivan Klima in The Guardian
The Guardian had a short overview of the life and work of Ivan Klima (Love and Garbage, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, too many others to mention) this weekend: Incredibly, he returned to Prague after the 1968 uprising was put down: Klima began to fight back against these privations straightaway. ...
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Steven L. Isenberg named Executive Director at PEN
Word is just starting to go around that PEN has named a new Executive Director. From PEN’s press release: PEN American Center, the largest branch of International PEN — the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization — today announced the appointment of Steven L. Isenberg as Executive ...
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Pessoa archive declared 'national treasure' in Portugal
L’héritage documentaire de Fernando Pessoa, considéré comme le plus grand poète portugais du XXe siècle, a été classé “trésor national”, a annoncé jeudi le gouvernement portugais. This looks to put an end to some controversy that was started last summer, when Pessoa’s heirs planned to ...
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