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My Life, I Lapped it Up: On Translating the Poetry of Edoardo Sanguineti

Essay
By: Will Schutt | November 12, 2015

Untitled, lowercased, long-lined, the poems in Reisebilder resemble pages in a flipbook, detailing brief encounters in restaurants, museums and hotel rooms. More

Fouling One’s Own Nest: On Translating Horacio Castellanos Moya

Essay
By: Lee Klein | November 5, 2015

But Horacio Castellanos Moya and Thomas Bernhard pretty much flip their native countries the bird; not because they’re elitist, but because they’re raging idealists and lovers of the arts. More

Capturing the Hurt: On Translating Kazuki Kaneshiro

Essay
By: Takami Nieda | October 29, 2015

Kazuki Kaneshiro has resisted the category of “Zainichi writer” in Japan, and insists that his ethnic Korean heritage is but a small, and not defining, part of his identity. More

Understanding Difference: On Translating Olga Tokarczuk

Essay
By: Jennifer Croft | October 22, 2015

The urgency of the issues addressed in Tokarczuk's work is nowhere clearer than in the recent barrage of hate mail addressed to the author, absolutely unprecedented in her career,… More

A Cosmologist of Language: On Translating Magnús Sigurðsson

Essay
By: Meg Matich | October 15, 2015

Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, Sigurðsson is able to create tiny but arresting artifacts—fragments that scale an instant to an aeon, and a… More

The Unimaginable Muse: On Translating Vítězslav Nezval

Poetry
By: Tereza Novická, Stephan Delbos | October 8, 2015

One of the most prolific poets of his generation, Vítězslav Nezval dazzled even his closest contemporaries with his linguistic facility and uncanny ingenuity. More

The World Migrating: On Translating Song Lin

Essay
By: Dong Li | September 24, 2015

Permeated with themes of politics and exile, the poems of Chinese "exiled poet" Song Lin are a sensitive anthropology of our migratory world. More

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