Lise Kildegaard speaks with Daniel Rabuzzi about her friendship and collaboration with the Danish author Louis Jensen, whose «Square Stories» she has translated into English.
Keep Danish Weird
Vibrant Worlds, Vibrant Words
Daniel Rabuzzi reviews «The Pomegranates», Cristina Mazzoni’s anthology of modern Italian fairy tales, and discusses the particular challenges and rewards of translation involved.
And Not Towards Peace
Hopscotch is thrilled to share Esther Allen’s afterword for her long-awaited translation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s The Silentiary, coming from NYRB Classics on February 1st, 2022.
The Writer as Ruin
Charles Prusik introduces us to «The Interim», the latest Hilbig from Two Lines Press, examining the intersection of history, materiality, and subjectivity in Hilbig’s work.
T. E. Lawrence in the Forest of Translation
Samuel Martin revisits T. E. Lawrence’s English version of a little-known French novel by Adrien Le Corbeau, «The Forest Giant», nearly 100 years after its initial publication.
The Inca Conquest of Europe
Vincent Kling reviews Sam Taylor’s translation of Laurent Binet’s «Civilizations», examining the tension between fiction and history that pervades all three of Binet’s novels.
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