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2011 PEN Translation Fund Recipient Featured in Zeitgeist Festival
I hadn't been meaning to write about the Zeitgeist Festival—which presents staged readings of the work of younger playwrights from German-speaking countries—since the festival's materials exclude the names of… More
2010 PEN Translation Fund Recipient Daniel Brunet Presents Dea Loherƒ??s Bluebeard
Daniel Brunet received a PEN Translation Fund Award in 2010 to support his translation of Dea Loher’s play The Last Fire. He has continued to translate Loher’s work, and… More
Translation Matters at the 2012 PEN World Voices Festival
PEN World Voices is a festival of international literature, so translation plays a role in nearly every panel, since the work of most of these writers from around the… More
Fatima Shaik: Translation, Semantics, and Race
In the 1950s, my father discovered a mountain of old journals on the back of a dump truck. He stored the journals in a closet because they were “very… More
Hopeful Tussles: Martha Cooley on Poetry in Translation
Two different poetic languages representing two different ways of experiencing the world: these might at first seem essentially incompatible, perhaps even warring—but they’re not. They’re really two lovers (seeking… More
PEN Translation Committee Member Sylvie Kande at Columbia 11/14
Sylvie Kandé will read excerpts from her neo-epic poem, La quête infinie de l’autre rive: Épopée en trois chants (Gallimard, 2011), followed by a discussion on the theme of… More