A thing of beauty was released into the world today. It was already there, but now more people can read it. The first five volumes of the Murty Classical Library of Indian literature are now published: 2 millennia of culture…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Murty Classical Library’s Therīgāthā: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
Tagged with: Buddhism, Charles Hallisey, Dhammadina, Harvard University Press, India, Literature, Massolit Books, Murty Classical Library, Pali, Poetry, Sallie Tisdale, Therigatha, Translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, translation
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery, was the book I read by the Christmas tree this year; next year you could be doing the same. The splendid Pushkin Press has just bought the English rights. The author, the Swedish Finn…
Tagged with: Athos, Cornelia Funke, Fantasy, Fiction, Finlandia Junior 2014, Finnish, German, Goddess, Inkheart, J. R. R. Tolkien, Maresi, Maria Turtschaninoff, Marja Kyrö, Millenium trilogy, Pushkin Press, Stieg Larsson, Swedish, Translation, YA
Posted in books
Posted in books
happy new year, happy birthday asymptote
Happy New Year! Happy birthday Asymptote! If you feel you didn’t get enough presents (and there’s still four days of Christmas left) or you didn’t make ambitious enough new year’s resolutions about reading more in as many languages as possible…
Tagged with: Agnar Artúvertin, Asymptote, faroese, Free Word Centre, Literature, Matthew Landrum, Poetry, Translation
Posted in international, literature, translation
Posted in international, literature, translation
found in translation 