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Foucault in Warsaw

Posted on 1 June 2022 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

In Warsaw in 1958, Foucault was writing his History of Madness. Then, it was his PhD, and he was the first director of the university’s French Cultural Centre. Within a year, he’d left Poland. Was Jurek, his mystery lover, to…

Tagged with: Dowody na istnienie, Foucault, Open Letter, Polish, Queer, Remigiusz Ryziński, Sean Bye, Translation, Warsaw
Posted in books, translation

Chronicle of the Murdered House

Posted on 19 July 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

It takes a gay writer to bring a Catholic country back to its sense of love and sin, good and evil, and moral justice. The road is very long, but the actual miles travelled are very few, as almost all…

Tagged with: Brazil, Brazilian Portuguese, BTBA 2017, Chronicle of the Murdered House, Clarice Lispector, Lúcio Cardoso, Margaret Jull Costa, Queer, Robin Patterson
Posted in books, translation

Rilke Shake

Posted on 23 August 2016 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Two! Brazilian women in English translation on the ALTA national translation award long list. Is it the Olympic effect? Clarice Lispector is a heavyweight contender, but here’s something new, featherlight and deft from the south. It probably weighs less than…

Tagged with: Angélica Freitas, Brazil, BTBA 2016, Hilary Kaplan, NTA long list, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Portuguese, Queer, Rilke Shake, Translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month

The Ladyman

Posted on 4 June 2015 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

The 6th Queer Issue of Words Without Borders is out this month, with a strong showing from Central and Eastern Europe. The Serbian piece by Dragoslava Barzut is heart breaking, the opening of Zuzana Kepplová’s Slovak piece made me laugh,…