Posts Tagged: Alicia Kennedy
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On Translating Andrés Neuman's "Traveler of the Century"

| April 20th, 2012

Andrés Neuman, born in 1977, is young, prolific and ridiculously talented. He published his first novel, Bariloche, at 22 and has since published nine more books, including novels, books of poetry, aphorisms and a travel book. He was named to the Bogota 39, a list of 39 Latin American writers under 40 to watch, and was included in Granta’s The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Until now, none of his books have appeared in English. That's changing with the prize-winning Traveler of the Century, out next week from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It's a roving, weird tale of a traveler and translator who ends up in the ever-changing town [...]

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Translating A Norwegian First Novel: A Q. & A. With Kerri Pierce

| October 17th, 2011

“Awkward” is an overused word that has, over time, come to connote an almost endearing shyness. Its actual meanings, though—difficult, ungainly, abnormal—perfectly describe Mathea Martinsen, the narrator of Norwegian writer Kjersti A. Skomsvold’s debut novel, The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am. The book, out next week from Dalkey Archive, takes up Mathea’s life after the death of her husband. With no one to talk to, she wears a watch in the hopes that someone will ask her the time, talks to the news anchors on TV and repeatedly calls the operator asking for her own number. It’s a painfully funny exploration of loneliness, written in a lean [...]

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Translating César Aira: A Q. & A. with Rosalie Knecht

| June 28th, 2011

In 2006, Rosalie Knecht graduated from Oberlin and flew to Argentina on a Fulbright scholarship to work on a translation of César Aira’s The Seamstress and the Wind, out this week from New Directions. The novel is Knecht's first as a translator, and working on Aira places her in the company of such respected names as Chris Andrews and Katherine Silver.

This is the fifth Aira novel that New Directions has brought out, and last year Barbara Epler, the publishing house's editor in chief, told GQ that after Roberto Bolaño, Aira would be the next big success-in-translation.

It’s hard to argue with that prediction when you know [...]