Search Results for: Translation

BURTON WATSON (1925 – 2017)

Burton Watson, the great translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature and recipient of the 2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, passed away in Japan earlier this month at the… More

Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson is a poet and translator living in Brooklyn. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, Gulf Coast, Lana Turner, and Two Lines Press.… More

The PEN Ten with Idra Novey

Translating the words of the writers I most admire has always felt more daring to me than coming up with words of my own. It is such a complex… More

2017 Literary Award Winners

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Penguin Random House) by Hisham Matar  PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Insurrections (University of Kentucky Press)… More

Emily Jungmin Yoon

Emily Jungmin Yoon's poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, POETRY, The Literary Review, Columbia Journal Online, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Ordinary Misfortunes, is the winner… More