Albertines' 'Villa Albertine' program issues its first awards for French literature translated into English, with funding for publication. The post The Villa Albertine Translation Prizes: Sorrente, Green, Meziane, Adjemian appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-01-31 14:44:20 UTC ]
At a ceremony in New York on Thursday, Villa Albertine announced the winners of the first Albertine Translation Prize, which honors “the best contemporary French literature in English translation,” as selected by a committee of independent professional experts. “Together with the authors and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-27 16:48:28 UTC ]
Vincent van Gogh loved writers as much as he loved painters. It was partly by immersing himself in literature that Van Gogh developed the singular, elegant voice that makes his letters such an important literary achievement. This immersion also helped give him an ability to describe so... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-02 08:50:51 UTC ]
News and Events Mariah Rust and Xin Xu recently were named the recipients of the fourth annual translation prize for students sponsored by World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Consistent with World Literature Today’s commitment to... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-05-20 16:07:11 UTC ]
Poet whose outlook spanned anarchism, ecology and small business, as founder of the City Lights Bookstore in San FranciscoLawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, artist, activist and founder of San Francisco’s famous City Lights Bookstore, who has died aged 101 of interstitial lung disease, was the least... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-23 22:42:13 UTC ]
In “A Bookshop in Berlin,” Françoise Frenkel describes a life devoted to French literature and her escape from the Nazis across occupied France. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-12 16:02:39 UTC ]
Eleanor "Lee" Hochman, a translator of French literature and nonfiction and also a longtime copyediting chief at New American Library, died at home in New York City on October 6, of natural causes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gallimard has been home to many of the most prestigious writers in French literature throughout the 20th century, including Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and 2008 Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gallimard has been home to many of the most prestigious writers in French literature throughout the 20th century. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gallimard has been home to many of the most prestigious writers in French literature throughout the 20th century, including Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and 2008 Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]