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Angela Rodel is a literary translator living in Bulgaria. She received a 2014 NEA translation grant for Georgi Gospodinov’s novel The Physics of Sorrow (Open Letter 2015). The novel was also short-listed for the 2016 Pen Translation Award. Six novels in her translation have been published by US and UK publishers. Her translations have appeared…
Georgi Gospodinov (born 1968) is a Bulgarian poet and writer. His debut novel, Natural Novel (1999), was published in twenty-three languages including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and, most recently, Icelandic. His second novel, The Physics of Sorrow (2012), won several national awards and was a finalist for six international prizes in Italy, Germany, and…
Kari Dickson grew up in Scotland, with a Norwegian mother. She read Scandinavian Studies at UCL and then went on to work in theater, before taking an MA in translation at the University of Surrey. Having worked initially as a commercial translator, including some years at the central bank of Norway, she now concentrates solely…
Kamel Daoud (born 1970) is an Algerian journalist and writer based in Oran. He writes a popular column for the French-language newspaper Le Quotidien d’Oran and has contributed articles and op-ed pieces to many other periodicals, including Le Monde and The New York Times. In 2013, following two short-story collections, he published his first novel,…
John Cullen grew up in New Orleans and was educated at the universities of Virginia and Texas. He is the translator of many books from French, German, Italian, and Spanish. In 2010, his translation of Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck won both the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. His most recent translations…
Madison County, North Carolina contains roughly 450 square miles of the oldest mountains in the world, with sharply pitched forested slopes, grassy balds, rocky ridges, and swift creeks typical of the Southern Appalachian highlands.
Elisabeth Jaquette is a prolific writer and translator of Arabic. Her translations have appeared in the Guardian, Asymptote, multiple anthologies, and other places. She holds an MA from Columbia University and was a CASA Fellow at the American University of Cairo.
I was seventeen years old when I started working at the front desk of a beach resort in my coastal city in Brazil and began to teach myself my first sentences in English. In the tourism industry, English was currency, and as such I wanted to earn it.
From the Chicago Public Library’s children’s book giveaway to the passing of a central figure in Latin American writing, here’s some of last week’s most important literary news: Writer and activist Margaret Atwood was awarded with the 2016 PEN Pinter prize.
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