Interview: Stephen Snyder. Translator for The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa “It’s difficult to imagine a world without translated literature and other forms of writing. We would be a sadly reduced globe with access to only works that were written in the one or two or three languages we might be able to read.” Have[…]
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Interview: Stephen Snyder. Translator for The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
By shelfmedia Interview Oct 04, 2020
Interview: Robert Chandler. Translator of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad
By shelfmedia Interview Oct 04, 2020
Interview: Robert Chandler. Translator of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad Inspired by his love of Russian folk tales and a desire to share them with English friends, Robert Chandler has been translating books for over four decades. Chandler describes his unique partnership with his wife in the telling of author Vasily Grossman’s tale of wartime devastation and[…]
Interview: Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño, Translators of Garden By The Sea
By shelfmedia Interview Oct 04, 2020
Interview: Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño, Translators of Garden By The Sea Mercè Rodoreda’s novel Garden by the Sea is a story that drifts; filled with wealthy friends enjoying many summers together under the watchful eye of the gardener. The “slow moving drama” is what Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño enjoy most about it. Mother[…]
Black Authors in English Translation Vera Wülfing-LeckeDoomi Golo—The Hidden NotebooksAuthor: Boubacar Boris DiopPublisher: Michigan State University Press (2016)Country/language: Senegal/French Allison M. CharetteBeyond the Rice FieldsAuthor: Naivoharisoa Patrick RamamonjisoaPublisher: Restless Books (2017)Country/language: Madagascar/French Saskia VogelThey Will Drown in Their Mother’s TearsAuthor: Johannes AnyuruPublisher: Two Lines Press (2019)Country/language: Sweden/Swedish Kaiama L. GloverDance on the VolcanoAuthor: Marie Vieux-ChauvetPublisher:[…]
Interview: Jayant Kaikini, Author of short story No Presents Please
By shelfmedia Interview Oct 04, 2020
Interview: Jayant Kaikini, Author of short story No Presents Please Earlier this year, in July, Indian writer and poet Jayant Kaikini published his first book in the US, No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories (Catapult Press). Translated from Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, this collection introduces compelling and memorable small-town migrants working to build a life in[…]
Interview: Marthese Fenech, Author of Falcon’s Shadow. Tell us a little bit about your recent sequel in the Siege of Malta trilogy, Falcon’s Shadow MF: The hostility between the Ottoman Sultan and the Knights of St John incites the collision of two great empires, intertwining the fates of characters separated by faith, loyalties, and vast[…]
Interview: Daven McQueen, Author of The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones.
By shelfmedia Interview Aug 09, 2020
Interview: Daven McQueen, Author of The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones. “Ethan and Juniper make a case for why allyship – productive, substantial allyship – is important for sustaining the movement. White people and non-Black people of color have to do the work of learning, supporting, and stepping back to let Black folks lead. That[…]
Interview: Kelly G. Park, Author of Just Like Me: When the Pros Played on the Sandlot. Mr. Kelly G. Park is a retired sandlot athlete, never having the skills to “take it to the next level” but enjoying every moment of those pick-up games. As a retired sandlot player, Kelly’s thoughts were not about being[…]
Jay Rayner is food critic and news writer for The Guardian’s The Observer, which covers the top stories and trends in lifestyle, arts, business political, and celebrity news around the world, a television personality, serving as a judge on Top Chef Masters, a radio show host for BBC 4, and an author of 11 books,[…]
In her sophomore novel, Sarah Leipciger channels the voices of three disparate individuals connected through time and space: a heartbroken young woman takes a final breath before plunging into the River Seine in 1890s Paris; a toymaker channels his grief into invention in 1950s Norway; and, in present-day Canada, a journalist battles a terrible disease[…]
