Links Round-up June 10

New Reading

1. Rachel Tzvia Back translates Israeli poet Tuvia Ruebner, at Two Lines Online http://ow.ly/5dcNQ
2. A section of Jorge Carrión’s “Los Muertos,” translated by Australian workshop participants http://ow.ly/5dcGx
3. José Rizal’s “El Filibusterismo,” trans. Harold Augenbraum, coming to Penguin Classics http://ow.ly/5b5XB

Reviews & Interviews

1. German translator Anthea Bell, in a Q&A at Publishers Weekly http://ow.ly/5ddHs
2. Chad Post chips away at Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy, trans. Jamey Gambrell (NYRB Classics) http://ow.ly/5ddBB
3. Ilan Stavans’ FSG Book of Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry, reviewed at Quarterly Conversation http://ow.ly/5ddvZ
4. Adam Thirlwell on Krzhizhanovsky’s “Memories of the Future” at the NY Review of Books http://ow.ly/5dd0b
5. Scott Esposito interviews Enrique Vila-Matas for The Paris Review, on “Never Any End to Paris” http://ow.ly/5dcV0
6. Hiromi Kawakami’s “Manazuru,” trans. Michael Emmerich, reviewed at Three Percent http://ow.ly/5dc4P
7. Andrea Rosenberg reviews Viscount Lascano Tegui’s “brain dandruff” at Quarterly Conversation http://ow.ly/5d7vK
8. Amanda DeMarco (Readux) raves about a Moroccan novel; alas, it hasn’t been translated … yet? http://ow.ly/5cI9p
9. At The Quarterly Conversation, E.J. Van Lanen talks with two Icelandic authors http://ow.ly/5ciGc
10. Read This Next, a new weekly preview of international literature, launches with Castellanos Moya’s “Tyrant Memory” http://ow.ly/5ca2i
11. Danuta Borchardt discusses translating Gombrowicz’ Trans-Atlantyz, at Two Lines Online http://ow.ly/5bI9z
12. Bookforum interviews Hervé Le Tellier, recently published in English by Dalkey Archive and Other Press http://ow.ly/5b6hM
13. Open Letters Monthly reviews two new translations of Raymond Roussel http://ow.ly/5b5i8

Essays & Articles

1. What lengths will foreign publishers go to, to get their books into English? http://ow.ly/5ddkD
2. On her blog Alluringly Short, Erica Mena discusses translation and strategy http://ow.ly/5dcz8
3. On her blog Intralingo, Lisa Carter continues her series on how to get started as a literary translator http://ow.ly/5cbsY
4. Heidi Holzer/Noroozy considers translating words vs. translating ideas http://ow.ly/5aHHZ

Calls

1. Call for Submissions: Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (translation welcome!) http://ow.ly/5e5KO
2. Call for Submissions: Music, Arab World, Children’s Literature themes for three upcoming issues of BCLT’s In Other Words http://ow.ly/5e371

News & Prizes

1. Translation publisher Open Letter announces availability of e-books, inaugural sale http://ow.ly/5dd5Y
2. Wave Books highlights their poetry translations on a new web page http://ow.ly/5b69L
3. Ricardo Piglia has been awarded the Gallegos prize, joining an impressive list of Spanish language novelists http://ow.ly/5dccI
4. Edward Honig, poet and translator (of Pessoa, Lorca, others) has died at 91 http://ow.ly/5cl1S

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