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Magic and History: On Translating René Despestre

Essay
By: Kaiama L. Glover | September 19, 2016

Written while the author was in exile and inspired by childhood memories of the village where he grew up, this classic of the Haitian literary tradition enchants the reader… More

That Which Issues Forth: My Love Affair with Juana I

Essay
By: Gabriel Amor | September 19, 2016

Ana Arzoumanian's poem cycle, Juana I (Alción Editora, 2006), offers an intimate look at the queen of Castille and Aragon, dubbed mad by her contemporaries for sake of political… More

Economy of Means: On Translating Gemma Gorga

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By: Sharon Dolin | September 19, 2016

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

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By: Emma Ramadan | September 19, 2016

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

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By: Anita Gopalan | September 19, 2016

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

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By: Chris Clarke | September 19, 2016

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

By: Abdi Latif Dahir | September 4, 2016

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

Translation
By: Jane Eldridge Miller | August 30, 2016

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

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By: Margaret Carson | August 29, 2016

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

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By: Margaret Carson | August 25, 2016

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

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