Economy of Means: On Translating Gemma Gorga
Based on the concept of a medieval book of hours, Gemma Gorga's award-winning collection of poetry, Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes) distills the devotional and quotidien aspects of… More
Morocco’s Forgotten History: On Translating Ahmed Bouanani
Les Persiennes, by Ahmed Bouanani, a volume of prose poems that arc across geography, history, and folklore to rescue Moroccan cultural memory, an act of remembering in the face… More
His Craft of Narration: On Translating Geet Chaturvedi
First published in 2008, Geet Chaturvedi's lyrical, award-winning novella, Simsim, was recognized for its groundbreaking contribution to contemporary Hindi fiction. Simsim narrates the clash between two Indias—one old and… More
Bridging French Modernism: On Translating Marcel Schwob
Marcel Schwob's Vies Imaginaries (1896) is a collection of 22 fictio-documentary stories blending the fantastic and the biographical, and which would later influence Borges' A Universal History of Infamy. More
Kenyan fable could be the most translated short story ever
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's fable of how humans learned to walk is the most translated short story in African history. More
Women in Translation Month: Disparity Within Disparity
Our final post, from Jane Eldridge Miller, makes a plea to readers to look beyond writers of the 21st century and outside of the languages most commonly translated into… More
Women in Translation Month: Women Translators Who Have Won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
In the final two posts of the series, we have expanded the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and (in… More
Women in Translation Month: Books Translated by Women That Have Won the PEN Translation Prize
In the final two posts of the series, we expand the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and the PEN… More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women Published After Receiving a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
These works of literature have been judged to represent the finest writing by women worldwide, brought into English—from Russian, French, Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Spanish, Pashto, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew,… More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women That Have Won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
This year, as a contribution to Women in Translation Month, the PEN America Translation Committee presents a series of blog posts featuring books written by women that have won… More
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