Karen Emmerich

“There’s Value in Translating All Kinds of Things”: An Interview with Dr. Karen Emmerich

“There’s Value in Translating All Kinds of Things”: An Interview with Dr. Karen Emmerich

Anglophone readers owe a debt to translator and professor Dr. Karen Emmerich for her many contributions to Greek literature in translation. Currently a professor of Comparative Litearture at Princeton University, Emmerich has translated everyone from Yiannis Ritsos to Margarita Karapanou to Christos Ikonomou.

Review: SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN, YOU’LL SEE by Christos Ikonomou
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Review: SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN, YOU’LL SEE by Christos Ikonomou

Though Ikonomou’s characters are faced with Greece’s economic crisis, and the collection is beholden to particular circumstance, place, and time, Something Will Happen is not so particular as to be prohibitive. It’s spare. It’s intricate, full of heart and heft, and about the crisis only insofar as it enters the lives of these men and women, their dreams and thoughts, their relationships and homes.

“I know that reality and truth are not always the same thing”: An Interview with Christos Ikonomou

“I know that reality and truth are not always the same thing”: An Interview with Christos Ikonomou

Christos Ikonomou is the author of three short story collections, including Something Will Happen, You’ll See (Archipelago Books, trans. Karen Emmerich, 2016), for which he won the National Short Story Prize. Something Will Happen, You’ll See, a devastating and sparingly written collection of stories about the Greek crisis in working class neighborhoods in Athens, is…