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Dottir Press recently published Quake: A Novel by Meg Matich '15 with a book talk to follow on March 1, 2022.
In balancing authenticity with readability, translators tackle a seemingly impossible art — and rarely receive enough credit.
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge, translated from the Chinese by Assistant Professor Jeremy Tiang, was recently named runner-up of the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
Equestrian Monuments, a poetry collection by Luis Chaves and co-translated by two alumnae, Julia Guez ‘11 and Assistant Professor Samantha Zighelboim ‘11, will be published by After Hours Editions early 2022.
When it comes to Dante, acclaimed poet and translator Mary Jo Bang ’98 is all about being as vernacular as possible.
The World’s Lightest Motorcycle, a collection of poems by Yi Won and co-translated by alumna E.J. Koh ‘13 and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, is now available from Zephyr Press.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Julia Sanches and Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith '97 recently made the longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award. Sanches was longlisted for her prose translation of Natalia Borges Polesso's Amora: Stories (Amazon Crossing, 2020). Smith and co-translator Changtai Bi made the poetry longlist for My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020) by Yi Lei.
Jeremy Tiang, who will join School of the Arts Faculty as an adjunct professor in Fall 2021, has won a PEN Translates award from English Pen for his translation from the Chinese of Cocoon (World Editions) by Zhang Yueran.
"Boundaries," a short story by Marianne Vitale translated from the Italian by Writing student Laura Green, has been published in World Literature Today.
"Boundaries," a short story by Marianne Vitale translated from the Italian by Writing student Laura Green, has been published in World Literature Today.
After translating the works of Swiss-German author Robert Walser for decades, Professor Susan Bernofsky has written the first English-language biography of him.
Graduate students from Columbia’s School of the Arts and literary students from Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) met in April in a virtual format to read each other’s translated poetry.