Thursday, March 07, 2013

Turkish Literature and Translation Trapped Between East and West



Turkish writers have a love-hate relationship with the West, but the tension has resulted in a dynamic literary culture, one that can prove tricky to translate.
Discussion:
Literature Across Frontiers reports a steady growth in the number of translations in the UK and Ireland, around 2.5% of all books.
More News from PP:
Amish Tripathi, whose fiction re-imagines Hindu myths as fiction, receives a 50 million rupee ($912,000) advance for the South Asian rights to his next trilogy.
The fiction longlist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards, organized by Open Letter Books, includes 23 books from 15 publishers, 19 countries and 13 languages.
James Salter, Tom McCarthy and Adina Hoffman are among nine writers who are $150,000 dollars richer thanks to Yale's new Windham Campbell Literature Prizes.
From the Archives:
Roger Tagholm interviews Chinese author Ah Yi about his career change from policeman to blogger to novelist.

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