May 15, 2020
Though Columbia University still has travel restrictions in place, Bernofsky is optimistic that things will be well enough by fall to travel to Berlin for her residency with the academy.
read moreApril 23, 2020
Alumna Nadia Foskolou ’08 translates The Viewpoints Book by professor Anne Bogart and recent adjunct Tina Landau into Greek.
read moreMarch 27, 2020
Magma, a novel by Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir, translated by alumna Meg Matich ’15, will be published simultaneously in the US, by Grove Atlantic, and the UK, by Picador.
read moreFebruary 10, 2020
UPDATE 2/10/2020 PEN America recently announced finalists for the 2020 PEN Literary Awards, and Xuan Juliana Wang '11, Professor Leslie Jamison, and Ruchika Tomar '12 are among them.
read moreDecember 13, 2019
The Magical Language of Others (Tin House Books), a memoir the Library Journal described as “a poignant transgenerational story of trauma in South Korea, Japan and America” is constructed around a series of letters E.
read moreDecember 12, 2019
A Dear Abby for those who like their life questions answered on a higher plane, French educator Marie Roberts’ new book, When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Dilemmas, translated by current writing student Meg Richardson, offers perspective on the conundrums and prosaic dilemmas of daily life through the philosophy of major figures.
read moreNovember 20, 2019
Alumna Gnaomi Siemens '18 was recently awarded an ALTA Travel Fellowship given every year to a select group of emerging translators.
read moreOctober 10, 2019
Bernofsky was involved in the performance initially as a consultant in this latest transformation of the words of the man she unabashedly calls her “first literary love.
read moreSeptember 24, 2019
Adjunct Professor Edith Grossman who has brought the English-speaking world the words of Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among many others, was recently awarded the 2019 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.
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