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The Yale University Library recently announced that alumna Mei-mei Berssenbrugge '73 is the winner of the 2021 Bollingen Prize for Poetry.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
Writing students Samuel Granoff, Jacob Thomas Schultz, and Stephanie Wobby have founded The Line, a new nonprofit journal dedicated to publishing veteran writing, with support from Columbia Artist/Teachers.
The Brooklyn Public Library recently announced that alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson '19 will be the library's first ever Poet-in-Residence.
Dutch Kills Press recently released 2020: Good Writing from a Bad Year, an e-book anthology edited by alumnus Gordon Haber '02.
Alumnus Rafiq Kathwari '00 recently published his newest collection of poems, My Mother's Scribe, with Yoda Press.
Associate Professor Susan Bernofsky was among the featured speakers at The Universidad Diego Portales’ symposium on literary translation. Bernofsky joined several other speakers in conversation about the act of creating space for reflection in and around the art of literary translation.
Alumnus Daniel Felsenthal '15 has been awarded a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture to support his research for an essay on W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
"Other Significant Others: A Glossary," a short story by fiction student Gauraa Shekhar, has recently been nominated for the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers by Nimrod Journal.
Our Word recently hosted poet Tracy K. Smith '97 and fiction writer Paige Morris for a panel on translation, race, and gender called Translating Identity.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Writing and Director of Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Susan Bernofsky about her translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, how a single word can illuminate important artistic tendencies, and her approaches to teaching translation.
