Posted on September 19, 2023 at 3:38 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Linguistics class is in session on the reader newswire today. The New Yorker profiled Emily Wilson, who has translated both...

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Posted on September 19, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The weather forecast in Des Moines is definitely summer, but the reading blogs we follow seem to be all in...

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Posted on September 19, 2023 at 7:41 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Happy release day to Karl Ove Knausgaard and the English translation of his novel Ulvene fra evighetens skog. The book...

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Posted on September 14, 2023 at 9:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature came out today. Out of the over 150 submissions, these...

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Posted on September 14, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New Yorker began running an online flash fiction series over the summer. If that intrigues you, there's a link...

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Posted on August 1, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The worlds of film and literature often collide in the form of book adaptations. Sometimes, though, their intersection takes on...

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Posted on July 14, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Two pieces of literature inspired by humanity's darker side are seeing new life right now. The perhaps less surprising one...

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Posted on July 12, 2023 at 7:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Czech writer Milan Kundera, famous for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died. The 94-year-old died in Paris after a...

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Posted on July 7, 2023 at 9:08 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The latest incident highlighting translators' battle for respect comes out of the British Museum. There, an exhibit had used translations...

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Posted on July 6, 2023 at 7:53 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It's a newly translated novel, but not a new novel. Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg published The Road to the City,...

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