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Alum Tenzin Dickie ’14 discusses their journey as an artist and creator.
Alum Sarah Timmer Harvey ’18 has been shortlisted for the prestigious International Booker Prize for her translation of Dutch author Jente Posthuma's novel What I'd Rather Not Think About (Scribe, 2020).
Writing alumna Meg Matich ’15 has translated Ásta Sigurðardóttir's Nothing To Be Rescued (Nordisk Books, 2023), introducing her stories to English-speaking readers for the first time.
Alumna Terese Svoboda '78 discusses her journey as an artist and creator.
On October 4, 2023, poet Kim Hyesoon joined her decade-long translator and fellow poet Don Mee Choi for a special evening at Columbia University School of the Arts’s Lenfest Center for the Arts, where they read excerpts from their work and spoke about their creative processes and experimentation.
The Cheapest France in Town, a poetry collection by Seo Jung Hak, has been translated from the Korean by Writing alumna Megan Sungyoon ’20.
An English translation by Professor Susan Bernofsky of Yoko Tawada’s German novel, Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel, will be published by New Directions in July 2024.
Lojman, a novel by Ebru Ojen, co-translated from the Turkish by Writing alumna Selin Gökçesu ’15 and translator Aron Aji, has been published by City Lights.
Wound—an autobiographical novel by Olga Vasyakina translated from the Russian by Writing alumna Elina Alter ’16—was recently published by Catapult.
Writing alumna Tenzin Dickie ’14 has published The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays (Penguin, 2023), a groundbreaking anthology of modern Tibetan non-fiction.
Ninth Building, a book by the highly regarded Chinese writer Zou Jingzhi and translated by Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Tiang, will be released next week from Open Letter. The work has been longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize.
Magma, written by Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir and translated from the Icelandic by alumna Meg Matich ’15, has been named among the seventy titles on the Dublin Literary Award longlist.