American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

Bookfair Bingo is your chance at #AWP23 to win a bundle of books in translation published by participating presses! Come by booth 918 to talk to ALTA and learn more about how to play. One book you could win is FLAMES FROM THE EARTH, pub. @northwesternup! https://t.co/Jdnz7WlOAW https://t.co/D5uXt7szSR

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

Not in Tucson this weekend? Not to worry! The recording of Read the World: A Kaleidoscope of Translated Literature, a @uahumanities Tucson Humanities Festival / ALTA45 event featuring ALTA's mentees reading @UAPoetryCenter, can now be viewed here! https://t.co/8hG9eVgTID https://t.co/PrCkGHLfVZ

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

“Humor and anger merge like hot water and wind into a sinister twirling, a momentum that carries.” Past ALTA mentee @fiona_ina_bell reviews past NTA judge @J_Zuckerman @J_Zuckerman's translation of PINA, originally written in French by Titaua Peu! https://t.co/zAb1qusCxB https://t.co/l5yirUK4RP

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

A novelist who brings a new twist and voice to topics of contemporary poverty, womanhood and class with her “frenzied and poetic sentences.” Check out this article about feminist author Mieko Kawakami, author of BREASTS AND EGGS, via @NYTmag: https://t.co/RiPNBLyS0k https://t.co/R57EkR75Jv

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

"Is Collected Works’ immense length justified? Yes. Could it have been shorter? Also, yes." This new post at @TheNewEuropean discusses what Lydia Sandgren's impressive debut, COLLECTED WORKS, translated by Agnes Broomé, represents for the long novel: https://t.co/YXlh3twrzt https://t.co/v08tWMQYUw

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

Included in the @nytimesbooks list of “6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week,” David Unger’s translation of Miguel Ángel Asturias’s 1946 surrealist classic MR. PRESIDENT is out now! Check out @asymptotejrnl’s incredible interview with Unger here: https://t.co/SrRFQdL2Ps https://t.co/Iwx9Sngsl1

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

Congratulations to @sheri_hellberg whose translation from Danish of Jonas Eika’s short story “Me, Rory and Aurora” (part of the novel AFTER THE SUN) just won the 2023 O. Henry Prize: https://t.co/C7U9mx9UJH https://t.co/mneaC4Ieqa

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

Specializing in “irreverent literary pastiche," French author Pierre Senges brings us AHAB (SEQUELS), a reimagining of Moby-Dick’s hailed captain’s future, now in English translation by ALTA member @jsief and Tegan Raleigh. See this feature @thenation: https://t.co/7dxYNAhLlA https://t.co/kYrfdYuA77

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

The marvelous Michael Hofmann and @natascha_bruce have been featured for their new translations (Werner Herzog’s THE TWILIGHT WORLD and Dorothy Tse’s OWLISH) in a recent piece from @lithub: https://t.co/ANzo4TlDj4 https://t.co/1U6yfQWzbg

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

ICYMI: Congratulations to 2021 Lucien Stryk judge @jeffreyangles, whose translation of THE THORN PULLER by Hiromi Ito, pub. @StoneBridgePub, was awarded the 2020-2021 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation! https://bit.ly/2ZHsasH https://t.co/YGmwszILHL