Amazingly, Pilar Quintana aces yet another National Book Award spot—this time as a 2023 Translated Literature finalist, for The Abyss, translated by Lisa Dillman.
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It is with genuine sorrow that we are learning of the sudden death of our alum, collaborator, and friend, the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa. Lina Sinjab’s short film about him is one homage among many thoughtful recollections. RIP.
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The always-interesting Publishing Perspectives PRC bestseller list is currently topped by Chi Zijian, with recurrent appearances by Yu Hua and, inevitably, Mo Yan.
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...and the winner of Argentine’s 2023 Premio de novela Sara Gallardo is Derroche [Waste] by Maria Sonia Cristoff.
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Yamila Bêgné and María Sonia Cristoff are among the finalists for the 2023 Premio Nacional de Novela Sara Gallardo, awarded by Argentine’s Ministry of Culture.
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On the just-out longlist of the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature are Khaled Khalifa’s No One Prayed Over Their Graves (trs. Leri Price, from the Arabic) and Pilar Quintana’s Abyss (trs. Lisa Dillman, from the Spanish).
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A giant of Indian English poetry, the author, translator, and scholar Jayanta Mahapatra, passed away on August 27, 2023. Here is a lovely interview with him by poet Sridala Swami.
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Featured in Interlink’s “Celebrating Women in Translation Month”: novels in translation by alum and colleague Iman Humaydan and “the Virginia Wolf of Palestinian literature” Sahar Khalifeh.
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“Disrupting Home” is the 2023 theme of the upcoming Nairobi-based Macombo Literary Festival, co-organized by Yvonne Adhiambo Ouwuor.
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“Quiet Night” by Fujino Kaori, translated from the Japanese by Heather D. Davis, appears in the most recent Guernica.
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