When you’ve lived away from home for a long time, home can be anywhere. If you move around a lot, the places of transit themselves, airports and train stations, can feel the most homelike of all. People may easily mistake…
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Women in Translation Month: Recitation
Tagged with: Bae Suah, Berlin, books, Deborah Smith, Deep Vellum, Korean, Recitation, Translation, Women in Translation Month
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Posted in books, international, translation, Women in Translation Month
Finland 100: The Red women
“So then they founded a women’s guard here, and anyhow I’m such an enthusiastic person so of course I went there first […] You can’t believe how enthusiastic I was about going to the front. Now I am going back…
Tagged with: books, Finland 100, Finnish civil war, gender, history, Punaisten naisten tiet, Red guard, Suomi100, Tiina Lintunen, Translation, Women in Translation Month
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Posted in books, gender, history, translation
Women in Translation Month: Ginczanka
Whenever I am in Warsaw, there are a couple of bookshops near the university that I have to visit. I always come out with something unexpected that keeps me going till I can come back to Poland. This time, the…
Tagged with: Marek Kamiński, Mądrość jak rozkosz, Poetry, Polish, Translation, Women in Translation Month, Zusanna Ginczanka
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Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation
The Conference of the Birds
This is extraordinarily beautiful and surprisingly gripping. Translated by a bilingual poet who made the wise decision to sacrifice the rhyme to keep the essences of the story, it sings. As Sholeh Wolpé says, translating medieval Persian into modern English…
Tagged with: Attar, books, Persian, Poetry, Sholeh Wolpé, Sufism, The Conference of the Birds, Translation
Posted in books, faith, history, poetry, translation
Posted in books, faith, history, poetry, translation
The Pearl
Simon Armitage’s award-winning translation is set side-by-side with the original, which creates plenty of opportunities for deciphering and comparing the older and younger versions of English. The original really rolls round your tongue. The translation cuts to the quick with…
Tagged with: books, Old English, PEN Translation Prize, Poetry, Simon Armitage, The Pearl, Translation
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Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
Cold moons
Summer has been so hot down south, but the Nordic midsummer is so uncharacteristically cold, even for here, that you might be missing real winter already. Time for some Icelandic poetry. Cold Moons by Magnús Sigurðsson, translated by Meg Matich,…
Tagged with: books, Iceland, Karol Majewski, Magnús Sigurðsson, Meg Matich, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Translation
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Posted in books, poetry, translation
Standing on Earth
Is a pomegranate a grenade-apple, a cluster of garnets, or a something else? Moshen Emadi has some ideas: Emadi’s Standing on Earth, translated from the Persian by Lyn Coffin, is a Phoneme Media production. I love this publisher for its windows on worlds…
Tagged with: books, Iran, Lyn Coffin, Mohsen Emadi, Persian, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Translation
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Posted in books, international, poetry, translation
Finland 100: a midsummer train ride
“Have you heard about the iron road?” “Iron road?” “yes, iron tracks, and on it, an iron horse that eats whole logs instead of hay, it’s a bit like the Suomela steam boat, only of course it doesn’t have paddles, it…
Tagged with: books, Finland 100, Finnish, Juhani Aho, midsummer, railway, Rautatie, Translation
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Posted in books, Finland 100, translation
The House in Smyrna
The key to The House in Smyrna is in Rio. Her grandfather brought it with him on the boat when he emigrated from Turkey. His granddaughter was born in Portugal, and is travelling all the way back, to see if it still…
Tagged with: Alison Entrekin, books, Brazil, Portuguese, Rio di Janiero, Tatiana Salem Levy, The House in Smyrna, Translation, Turkey
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Posted in books, translation
Fleur Jaeggy’s Cat
Susan Sontag calls her savage, Josef Brodsky calls her extraordinary, and the Paris Review calls her book downright lovely. There isn’t much one can add to that. Fleur Jaeggy’s latest collection, translated by Gini Alhadeff, is out next month and you…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, books, Cat, Fleur Jaeggy, Gini Alhadeff, I am the Brother of XX, Italian, Switzerland, Translation, Tuulikki Pietilä
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Posted in books, translation
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