This February, take a trip through Europe’s dramatic past and present with these engrossing new translations.
The Castle of Whispers by Carole Martinez
tr. Howard Curtis
Eur…
On Translation
February 25, 2014
February 18, 2014A Conversation with Ross Ufberg Today is the release date for The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov’s scathing satire from Moldova. Born and currently living in Moldova, Lorchenkov is…
February 11, 2014Photo by Eugenijus Radlinskas/Flickr The image of translation as an essentially lonely business has slowly but surely given way to a fairer, more accurate picture. Even when a translated text bears t…
January 28, 2014Lillehammer. Photo by Ulf Bodin/Flickr Netflix viewers are eagerly awaiting the third season of the original series Lilyhammer, a bilingual Norwegian series set in Lillehammer, the city prev…
December 10, 2013The 2013 calendar year was packed with literary translation news. At least two new publishers entered the field: Frische & Co. published its first e-books, and New Vessel Press brought out its fi…
November 26, 2013Why settle for a single poem or story when you can read an entire collection? These new November translations are bound to spike your interest. Jade Mirror: Women Poets of China Edited by M…
November 12, 2013Photo by Shami Chatterjee/Flickr Juan Gelman’s prose poems remind his translator of “eating juicy kumquats, tart little explosions of flavor.” In her attempt to generate version…
October 15, 2013Translator Yardenne Greenspan Today is the release date for Some Day, the English translation of Israeli filmmaker Shemi Zarhin’s first novel. Zarhin’s many award-winni…
October 8, 2013In these new translations from Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, you can visit the publishing houses of fifteenth-century Venice, the early years of Brasília, and twenty-first-century Buenos Aires.…
September 17, 2013Translator, author, and journalist Nick Caistor has accomplished a great deal over the course of his career, from presenting for the BBC World Service to writing a bi…- August 13, 2013A Short Tale of ShameAngel Igov tr. Angela Rodel Open Letter, 2013 A Short Tale of Shame is the first full-length novel from Bulgarian short-story writer and critic Angel Igo…
July 30, 2013Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky This week’s Translation Tuesday features the second half of our interview with Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky, the editors of the new…
July 23, 2013Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky In May, Columbia University Press released the collection In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means. With eighteen essays from contribu…
July 9, 2013In June we offered a list of twelve summer reads, all translated titles. Today we add two more to the list, both stories of summer published this month. Phillippe Georget, Summertime and All the C…
June 25, 2013A Conversation with Boris Dralyuk I recently interviewed Boris Dralyuk, translator of A Slap in the Face: Four Russian Futurist Manifestos (now on pre-sale from Insert Blanc Press), about fu…
June 11, 2013What are you reading this summer? Here at WLT, we believe no reading list is complete without several translated titles. In these twelve new translations, you can travel from 1931 Naples to a…
May 28, 2013“Think of Argentina and it quickly becomes apparent why the country holds travelers in awe. Tango, gauchos, fútbol, Patagonia, the Andes—the classics alone make a formidable wanderlust cocktail.” – Sa…
May 21, 2013In these May translations from Bulgarian, French, and Norwegian, you can see Marseilles through Jean-Claude Izzo’s eyes, witness a Swiss schoolteacher’s emotional crisis, watch Karl Ove Knausgaard’s l…
April 9, 2013A Q&A with Translator Karla Gruodis This month, Guernica will publish A Small Map of Experience: Reflections and Aphorisms by Lithuanian writer Leonidas Donskis, a philosopher, cultural c…
April 2, 2013An aphorism is a distilled, laconic reflection about the author’s intimate experiences of reality, expressed through paradox, provocation, or shocking self-disclosure. Aphorisms cannot be conceived th…
March 19, 2013Despite the recurring dismal reports of the number of books translated into English, we’re already seeing many exciting translations in 2013. For those seeking to read broadly, and abroad, we offer a…
February 26, 2013Photo by blacque_jacques/Flickr Later this year, Bloomsbury will release Michelle Woods’s newest book, Kafka Translated. This will be the first book-length study about translating Franz Kafka’s w…
February 19, 2013These five recent translations from four languages will take you from a big-game park in a place called “Jezoosalem” to a Santiago suburb, and you won’t want to miss the stops in between. The Tuner…
February 12, 2013Rights free potrait. Library of Congress. Join us in celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s birthday by adding your translations of this short Lincoln quote in the comments of this blog post. Thanks to WL…
February 4, 2013International Translation Day 2012. Photo EnglishPEN/Flickr The availability of translated fiction is a common topic of recriminatory debates both within the book trade and amongst communities of rea…
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