Interviews Veronica Esposito John Keene is the author of Counternarratives, which received an American Book Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. He is also the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the translator of Hilda Hilst’s Letters from a Seducer, and he is an essayist advocating for increased diversity in translated literature. Veronica Esposito: As you argue in your essay for the Poetry Foundation, “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” “we need more translation of literary works by non-Anglophone black diasporic authors into English.” What is the importance of these writers to the US translation scene and US culture more broadly? John Keene: I believe it is important to hear from as broad an array of global voices as possible, in part to increase our understanding of both the rest of the world and of ourselves, and to avoid what Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has beautifully described as “the single story.” Whatever we might feel about globalism as an economic system and ideology, global interdependence is real; isolationist and neocolonial and neo-imperial approaches to the United States’ relationship with the rest of the world are bound to fall, no matter how much military hardware and hegemonic soft cultural power this country deploys. Climate change and global warming, to name but two pressing challenges, underscore this on a daily basis. It’s clear that the United States’... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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The winner of India's 2024 Neev Book Award has seen an Amazon Original series developed from her book, 'Asmara's Summer.' The post Andaleeb Wajid Wins Bengaluru’s 2024 Neev Book Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The trial over the alleged ad tech monopoly begins Monday in Virginia. One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.The Justice... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-09-09 13:38:21 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry from Poets.org’s “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Dunya Mikhail. Dunya Mikhail is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Tablets: Secrets of the Clay (New Directions, 2024).... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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“Wild Text Raging”: A Conversation with Threa Almontaser, by Renee H. Shea Interviews [email protected] Tue, 09/03/2024 - 14:05 Photo courtesy of the author / ThreaWrites.comThe Wild Fox of Yemen, by Threa Almontaser, received the Academy of... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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His memoir Mamaskatch won the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction in 2018 Continue reading at CBC
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TollBit The 28-year-old founders of TollBit, a New York-based startup that is all of six months old, think we’re living in the “Napster days” of AI. Just like people of a certain generation downloaded digital music, companies are ripping off vast swaths of the internet without paying the rights... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-08-23 16:29:42 UTC ]
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The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which “honors writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace,” has today announced its 2024 book award finalists. The winners in each category will receive a $10,000 cash prize, and the runners-up will be awarded $5,000. The 2024... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Romantasy titles lead the list of 13 books that must be removed from public schools. Plus: a book award given from behind bars, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-08-05 15:05:00 UTC ]
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The inaugural Inside Prize has named its first recipient—the author Imani Perry. The new book award is “a collaborative project of Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, Center for Justice Innovation and Dallas bookstore owner Lori Feathers.” And in a novel move, all the prize judges are... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-02 17:05:17 UTC ]
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Whether it’s heat waves, wildfires, or floods, news of weather events intensified by climate change is hard to miss. And the publishing industry has been paying attention. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Whether it’s heat waves, wildfires, or floods, news of weather events intensified by climate change is hard to miss. And the publishing industry has been paying attention. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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When people type a question into Perplexity, the two-year-old search engine scours the internet and uses information from multiple sources, including online publishers, to synthesize an answer using AI. Soon, Perplexity will start sharing revenue with some publishers as part of an advertising... Continue reading at Engadget
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Designer Elisha Zepeda has become a TikTok star for sharing his book cover design process. Are publishers are paying attention? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The 36th annual Lambda Literary Awards in 26 different categories of LGBTQ+ books were announced. Here are the winners. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Publishers including The Atlantic are signing deals with the AI giant. Where does this lead? Continue reading at The Atlantic
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Today, Dublin City Council announced the winner of the prestigious 2024 Dublin Literary Award: Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter. The Dublin Literary Award comes with a hefty €100,000 purse, with Cărtărescu taking home €75,000, and Cotter €25,000.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The winning authors will share a cash award of $20,000, and the winning publishers will share a grant for $30,000 to support “the immediate open access publication of at least two new books.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Following mass withdrawals of books from consideration, PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, previously slated for April 29. Two cash prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Nine of the 10 longlisted authors for this year's PEN/Jean Stein Book Award have withdrawn their books for consideration for the prize, effectively rendering it unawardable, as the controversy surrounding the freedom of expression organization continues to expand in scope. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The best of LGBTQ+ books, from mystery to children's titles, comics to romance, are all in this year's Lambda Literary Award shortlists. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-03-28 13:29:04 UTC ]
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