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It has been a very long time coming, but after numerous government rulings and court cases, the German literary translators' association...

Danny Hahn is a very nice and very busy man, as a writer and translator and general advocate for both professions. Apparently, he found that...

Asymptote Journal is celebrating its third anniversary with a series of events in different countries (hence the title). They made a little...

You've noticed already, but of course Damion Searls is nominated twice over for the Best Translated Book Award in the fiction category,...

I have been busy, and away, and the away part was at the Leipzig Book Fair, where the big fiction prize of the spring went to Saša Stanišić ...

The American translator Tim Mohr has a big hit on his hands with Wolfgang Herrndorf's novel Tschick / Why We Took the Car . He was kind ...

Last year I had the great pleasure of translating Christa Wolf's last piece of writing, the story "August". I was very proud a...