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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Poet and scholar Mohammad Rafiq died unexpectedly in Bangladesh. Some of his poems were essential reading among those resisting the 1980s military dictatorship. R.I.P.
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After last year’s Booker winner from IWP ranks, the longlist for the 2023 Booker includes the distinguished Irish novelist Sebastian Barry.
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The directorial debut of Luiza Fazio is now up on YouTube.
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The distinguished Kosovo-born Serbian/Canadian/Jewish novelist and translator David Albahari died in Belgrade on 7/30/2023. R.I.P.
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