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Insert Pun Here3 comments

exchangesjournal wrote 6 months ago: I’ve been putting off responding to a number of things I’ve spotted around the internet, … more →

Tags: Crackpot Theories/Harebrained Ideas, international literature, Douglas Hofstadter, Francoise Sagan, Michael Orthofer, Monica Carter

Constantine Cavafy: Collected Poems1 comment

exchangesjournal wrote 8 months ago: In the New York Times, James Longenbach reviews Greek poet Constantine Cavafy’s Collected Poem … more →

Tags: international literature, Constantine Cavafy, James Longenbach, Daniel Mendelsohn

New Goytisolo Translation

exchangesjournal wrote 9 months ago: The Literary Saloon reports that Dalkey Archive Press is publishing a new translation of Juan Goytis … more →

Tags: international literature, Juan Goytisolo, Helen Lane, Peter Bush, Dalkey Archive Press

Martha Tennent/Mercè Rodoreda

exchangesjournal wrote 9 months ago: Martha Tennent, whose translation of Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda’s short story “On the … more →

Tags: eXchanges news, Three Percent, Martha Tennent, Mercè Rodoreda, open letter

More Oresteia1 comment

exchangesjournal wrote 9 months ago: For those interested in Anne Carson’s new translation of three Greek tragedies — and a l … more →

Tags: international literature, Anne Carson, Oresteia, Brad Leithauser

Portraying Pushkin

exchangesjournal wrote 9 months ago: A couple of days ago, the London Times published Rachel Polonsky’s review of two new books of … more →

Tags: international literature, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Stanley Mitchell, Andrew Kahn, Rachel Polonsky, Douglas Hofstadter, James Falen

Lee Sung-il translates classical Korean

exchangesjournal wrote 9 months ago: The Korea Herald has an article today about Lee Sung-il’s new translation of 15 classical Kore … more →

Tags: international literature, Lee Sung-il

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar: A Mind at Peace

exchangesjournal wrote 10 months ago: Richard Eder has published a wonderful review of Erdağ Göknar’s new translation of Ahmet Hamdi … more →

Tags: Erdağ Göknar, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Richard Eder, Jeremy Seal

Translation fest in the Guardian

exchangesjournal wrote 10 months ago: Both Three Percent and the Literary Saloon have expressed delight and amazement at the suddenly incr … more →

Tags: international literature, Three Percent, Stefan Zweig, jonathan littell, Jonathan Lyons, Adam Thirlwell, curzio malaparte, John Banville, James Buchan

Bernardo Atxaga: The Accordionist's Son

exchangesjournal wrote 10 months ago: In the Barnes & Noble Review, James Hannaham reviews Margaret Jull Costa’s translation of … more →

Tags: Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa, James Hannaham

The Scholarly Translation Rears Its Head

exchangesjournal wrote 10 months ago: Another review of Malcolm Lyons’s new translation of the 1001 Nights, this one even more disap … more →

Tags: Malcolm Lyons, Elspeth Barker

Alain Mabanckou: Broken Glass

exchangesjournal wrote 11 months ago: Laila Lalami has written a review of what sounds like an interesting novel: Congolese (living in L.A … more →

Tags: international literature, translation, Laila Lalami, Alain Mabanckou, Serpent's Tail, Congo

Interview with Erdağ Göknar1 comment

exchangesjournal wrote 11 months ago: Short but sweet interview with Erdağ Göknar on his translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s 1949 … more →

Tags: international literature, Erdağ Göknar, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Archipelago Books

New Arabian Nights translation1 comment

exchangesjournal wrote 11 months ago: A review by Geert Jan van Gelder in the latest Times Literary Supplement informs us that for the fir … more →

John Pluecker& Rosario Sanmiguel

exchangesjournal wrote 1 year ago: Sucre Alley translator John Pluecker published his translations of Rosario Sanmiguel’s gorgeou … more →

Tags: eXchanges news, John Pluecker, Rosario Sanmiguel, Contemporary Mexican fiction in translation

Translator and former eXchanges editor Jamie Richards publishes "Jellyfish"

exchangesjournal wrote 1 year ago: Jamie Richards, former MFA in translation at Iowa and editor of eXchanges, returned to old stomping … more →

Tags: eXchanges news


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