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.
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).
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.
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.
“Disrupting Home” is the 2023 theme of the upcoming Nairobi-based Macombo Literary Festival, co-organized by Yvonne Adhiambo Ouwuor.
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