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Three Percent #9: Authors I Used to Love
In this week’s podcast, we talk a bit about authors we “broke up” with. Writers like, say, Philip Roth, who evokes a pretty harsh reaction from Tom . . . Additionally we talk about authors we thought we had given up on, but to whom we keep returning and returning. And as usual, we digress a bit, talking ...
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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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French Translation Awards
I mentioned this just before I left for BEA, but last Wednesday the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation hosted the Twenty-First Annual Translation Prize ceremony in New York. This Prize is for the best fiction and nonfiction translations from French into English over the past year and comes with a ...
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Kundera to win Czech National Prize
Milan Kundera is going to receive the Czech National Prize for Literature, which is “bestowed on a Czech author either for an extraordinary literary achievement in the past year or for lifelong ...
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