From Movie Star to Book Translator, Molly Ringwald Makes a Splash (In Pink) at the PEN America Literary Awards
(NEW YORK)— Books aside, some of the chatter among the literary and publishing crowd at PEN America’s Literary Awards ceremony last Thursday night zeroed in on a surprise guest… More
PEN America Mourns the Death of Edmund Keeley, President from 1992-1994
“Through his work as a translator into English of the major Greek poets of the modern era, Edmund Keely was responsible for many people’s first encounters with their brilliance… More
Translating the Future
The Translating the Future conference, co-sponsored by PEN America, commemorates and carries forward PEN’s 1970 World of Translation conference. More
The 2017 PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Conference
The Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC) was founded in 1978 and focuses on supporting translation and marginalized languages throughout the world. More
TEJU COLE BECOMES FIRST WRITER EVER TO BE NAMED FINALIST FOR TWO PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS
PEN America announced the finalists today for its 2017 Literary Awards, including Teju Cole, who becomes the first writer in the award program’s 54-year history to be named a… More
How African Spirits Were Born
Miren harboured great anger and resentment. Finally overwhelmed by it, he decided to kill his brother and thus be recognised as the sole, undisputed ruler of the empire! More
How to Eat a Forest: In Two Acts
At times land was sold by the agent/ broker to a relatively poor immigrant, and subsequently offered by the politically connected seller to a prominent national government official. This… More
The Meanings of Yellow
Yellow has always caused me a certain amount of discomfort, perhaps because of its relation to sickness, to fear and despair. It also evokes power and the riches of… More
Night Walk
I think of everything there is that exists / and how little we know of it all / but mostly I think / of your sex / and your… More
On Translating Miljenko Jergović
Russell Scott Valentino is the recipient of a 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Rod by Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Croatian writer Miljenko Jergović. Read an excerpt of the translation… More