2013 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
The 2013 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation was just announced, with Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody receiving this year’s honors for his translation of Benjamin Fondane’s Ulysse. Not much info up on the Sontag site yet, although I think this literally just went online. (I’ve been refreshing that page like a ...
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Yeah, Paulo, THAT'S What's Wrong with Contemporary Literature
From The Guardian: James Joyce’s Ulysses has topped poll after poll to be named the greatest novel of the 20th century, but according to Paulo Coelho, the book is “a twit”. [. . .] Writers go wrong, according to Coelho, when they focus on form, not content. “Today writers want to impress ...
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