PEN America has announced the finalists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. With so many great books, authors, and translators included, we’ve put together this roundup of WLT’s covera…
Luljeta Lleshanaku
January 25, 2019
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Todd Fredson’s translations of francophone African, specifically Ivorian, poetic voices over the past decade mark an important contribution to…
Photo by Michel Banabila / FlickrDinosaurs
Each day, I drive beneath the shadow
of leviathan bones, concrete muscles
poured over rebar ribcage,…
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Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc.Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was…
Photo by New Africa / Adobestock.comIn her column Untranslatable, Veronica Esposito considers why various words are so difficult to translate.…
