If Paris calls London “alarmingly elegant”, it’s worth taking another look. Especially if it’s in translation from all around the globe. This month’s online issue of The White Review is a box of delights. I like to claim my favourites first,…
Alarmingly elegant translations: The White Review
Tagged with: Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentinian, Bill Johnston, Finnish, German, Herta Müller, Literature, London, Magdalena Tulli, Paris, Philip Boehm, Poetry, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, Translation, White Review, Yvette Siegert
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Best translation of 2014? Ten days left to vote
What was last year’s best translation? You have a few days left to cast your vote here. This poll is more democratic than most, as the short list is extended by other people’s suggestions. If you were choosing by the author name alone, the…
Tagged with: Best translation of 2014, Guadalupe Nettel, J. T. Lichtenstein, Mexican, Natural Histories, Rosalind Harvey, Spanish, Translation, Typographical Era, Words without Borders
Posted in literature, translation
Posted in literature, translation
Murty Classical Library’s Therīgāthā: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
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…
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
Between the Ox and the Grey Ass
This Christmas carol, Entre le boeuf et l ‘âne gris, is well loved in France, where was written in the 13th century, but not known well at all in the English-speaking world, so I couldn’t find it sung in English anywhere online. I…
Tagged with: carol, Christmas, Entre le boeuf, Finnish, French, Heinillä harkien kaukalon, Martti Korpilahti, Paul Ayres, Translation
Posted in Christmas, faith
Posted in Christmas, faith
tube tongues: the language at each end of the line
Sometimes someone makes you see something you know well in a new way. Oliver O’Brien’s Tube Tongues does just that. The UCL scholar mapped all the languages spoken at each London tube stop. It’s fascinating, and great for language learners…
Tagged with: Ana Hudson, Brixton, Filipa Leal, Lavinia Greenlaw, Noshi Gillani, Nukhbah Langah, Oliver O'Brien, Poems on the Underground, Poetry, Portuguese, Tranlsation, Tube Tongues, Urdu, Victoria Line, Walthamstow
Posted in international, poetry, translation
Posted in international, poetry, translation
Polish children’s books take on the world: find today’s lokomotywa
We always need more children’s books to delight the eye and the ear, in as many languages as possible. The Polish Dwie Siostry (two sisters) Publishing is awarding 2,500 euro to the best new one to add to their catalogue:…
Tagged with: Children's Books, Dwie Siostry Publishing, Illustration, Julian Tuwim, Lokomotywa, Michael Dembinski, Polish, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Rilke’s Advent
No-one does Advent better than the Germans. The Leo German dictionary usually has an excellent online advent calendar (in German, with poems and pictures for every day). So who better, I thought, to start Advent, than the German poet Rainer…
Tagged with: advent, English, German, Leo.org, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, Translation
Posted in translation
Posted in translation
The Newest New Words
(Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, 1872, with John Tenniel’s illustration) To be master or mistress of meanings, you need to be up to date with good sources. You might remember that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) will deliver a new…
Tagged with: Alice in Wonderland, English, German, John Tenniel, Language, Lewis Carroll, neologisms, Through the Looking Glass, Translation, words
Posted in language
Posted in language
found in translation 