First US Anthology Celebrates Literary Translators’ Work from Nineteen Languages, by The Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Mon, 04/08/2024 - 14:33 The first US anthology celebrating the breadth of literary translators’ work debuts today (April 9, 2024). Best Literary Translations is a new annual featuring the year’s best poetry, short fiction, and essays, drawn from US-affiliated literary journals and magazines. Best Literary Translations 2024, the anthology’s inaugural volume, features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages—including some not commonly seen in US translations, such as Burmese, Kurdish, Tigrinya, and Wayuu—brought into English by thirty-eight of the most talented translators working today. These poems, short stories, essays, and hybrid works were drawn from more than five hundred nominated works published in US literary journals during 2022, spanning more than eighty countries and nearly sixty languages. WLT is proud that Cynthia Steele’s translation of two Mapuche-Huiliche poems by Jaime Huenún Villa was chosen for inclusion. Two other pieces by Anastasia Afanasieva, translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, as well as Rashi Rohatgi’s translation of an excerpt by Abhimanyu Unnuth were longlisted. The four series coeditors—Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún—selected the finalists; the thirty-three works appearing... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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An indie publisher has been forced to find a new venue to launch its anti-Brexit poetry anthology Bollocks to Brexit: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction after the church where it was due to be held refused to host the event, citing issues with political balance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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