Why hasn’t a single Kurdish novel been published in English until now?
Can you name a single Kurdish fiction writer? Probably not. For anyone who thinks that the US and UK have made sufficient progress bringing foreign literature into translation, it may… Read more »
Spurl Editions enters the dark world of translated lit with My Suicide
Spurl Editions, a new independent publisher specializing in photography and “literature that is dark, eccentric, obscure, or unexpected,” released their first book earlier this month—LAX: Photographs of Los Angeles 1980-84 by John Brian King, a… Read more »
Winners of the 2015 National Translation Award announced
Last week, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) named the winners of the 2015 National Translation Award (NTA), an honor the organization has awarded annually to translators of book-length works since 1998. In the… Read more »
Do books in translation sell? A chestnut considered
Pity the poor publishing trends journalist. From time to time, maybe especially in the silly season, they’ll end up writing an article about translated books and sales, jousting with the… Read more »