“But there is the other, heavier responsibility, of the writer/translator who is part of the dominant, the ‘colonialist’ culture, which I cannot help being as a United States citizen, raised in that country, translating the work of ‘the subaltern,’ to use Gayatri Spivak’s term.”
“Deadline for submitting to the LGBTQ+ focus: April 30th 2018.”
“When we talk about creating platforms for writers that have been traditionally marginalized, it’s not just about identity and representation, it’s about making space for kinds of storytelling outside a narrow norm.”
Your ‘burning patience’ extinguished now
you sneak back like daylight, slipping through alleyways
through front doors of houses, left ajar
closed at night, a dwelling goes down, like a rock.
The “Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation” is for an unpublished book-length manuscript of poetry in translation. The deadline for awards submissions is April 16, 2018, at 11:59pm EST.
“My grandfather, Husni Fariz, was the poet laureate of Jordan. I used to relish the chance to sit at his desk and “write poems,” terrible poems in Arabic, ones that tried desperately to rhyme.”
“This is undoubtedly the most intense literary work I have done in my ten year career as a translator.”
Last year, Jen Calleja became the first-ever British Library Translator in Residence. With her tenure ending, the British Library and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are looking for fresh applicants to […]
“The Queue is a slow but powerful burn of a novel. It is set in an unnamed country after the ‘disgraceful events’, as the authorities – known as the Gate – have euphemistically dubbed the Arab spring. … Elisabeth Jaquette’s translation steadily allows the pressure to build.”
