More Than One Life: A Conversation with Lyn Coffin, by Alaaeldin Mahmoud Interviews [email protected] Mon, 08/19/2024 - 14:53 Lyn Coffin / Photo by Irmaguru / WikimediaDescribed by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans have never heard of,” Lyn Coffin (b. 1943) is a prolific contemporary US poet, writer, and literary translator. Her impressive career spans more than five decades, during which she’s published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and translation. One of her most notable achievements is her translation of The Knight in the Panther Skin—a twelfth-century epic poem by Shota Rustaveli and classic of Georgian literature—into metrical and rhymed English verse. Additionally, she has received several awards such as the First Prize in Translation from the Academy of American Poets for Jiří Orten’s Elegies (1975), the Gandhi Poetry Prize from the World Congress of Poets in India (2007), and the Georgian National Literature Prize SABA (2016). In the following interview, Coffin shares her thoughts about poetry translation, authorship, identity, and literary creation. Alaaeldin Mahmoud: You have been described as a prolific and versatile writer who has attempted various forms and genres. Which writing form do you identify with the most or feel most comfortable with? Lyn Coffin: I don’t know if I have a favorite literary or poetic form. That’s like asking who your favorite... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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Local, national, international – the weekday paper was a brilliant one-stop shop. But information, and how we get it, is more atomised nowLocal daily to close.” Ultimately, that is the truth. From today, London’s Evening Standard is indeed ceasing to appear every weekday, as it has for almost... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-09-19 07:00:10 UTC ]
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I don’t remember what made me pull the fat hardcover off my poetry shelf one day not long ago. It was one I had picked up secondhand on the Upper West Side in my grad school days, with a green linen cover, a bit stained: the complete poems of Robert Frost. On the front in […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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More Than One Life: A Conversation with Lyn Coffin, by Alaaeldin Mahmoud Interviews [email protected] Mon, 08/19/2024 - 14:53 Lyn Coffin / Photo by Irmaguru / WikimediaDescribed by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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With four categories across four official languages, the biennial Singapore Literature Prize jurors have shortlisted 71 titles. The post Singapore: The Biennial Literature Prize Announces 71-Book Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-08-14 21:38:53 UTC ]
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Today on Xwitter, Ukraine offered up their own version of The Tortured Poets Department, honoring three Ukrainian writers who have died in the 790 days so far of the country’s war with Russia: Victoria Amelina, Maksym Kryvtsov, and Volodymyr Vakulenko. Amelina, a celebrated novelist and winner... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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This was a regular feature of my childhood, though it feels so long ago and far away, conceptually as well as literally, that I nearly forgot it ever happened: I’d go into town to the mall with my mom, and she’d drop me at the doors of the Borders or Barnes and Noble while she […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Strange Scrawls, by Connor Lee McLean Creative Nonfiction [email protected] Tue, 12/12/2023 - 16:11 Photo courtesy of the authorReading a secondhand copy of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, a reader encounters another consciousness in the... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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When she was in high school in the early 1950’s, Joanna Russ (1930–2011) read Mark Twain’s short story “A Medieval Romance,” about a duke without a male heir who brings his daughter up to fill the role, hiding her gender from all. Things get complicated when the duke’s niece falls in love with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Long, long ago, a 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was forged by a printing press and sold. For a time, it was lost to man, buried in the piles of donated inventory at the Cancer Research UK superstore in Dundee, Scotland, until manager Adam Carsley spotted the worn copy on the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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I first read Carl Sagan’s Contact and Cosmos in high school, when I was working at a bookstore that let us borrow any book we had at least two copies of on the shelves. I loved them then and was excited to revisit these books in the course of my research for The Possibility of […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Sabaa Tahir received this year's Young People's Literature prize for her YA novel 'All My Rage'; during her tearful acceptance speech, Tahir noted, "I am the first Muslim and Pakistani American woman to win this award.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2022 Guadalajara Literature Prize, awarded by Feria Internacional del Libro, goes to Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu. The post Romania’s Mircea Cărtărescu to Receive Guadalajara’s $150,000 Literature Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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In 12 categories, the 2022 biennial Singapore Literature Prize winners are drawn from 43 writers in Tamil, Malay, Chinese, and English. The post Singapore Literature Prize: 15 Winners, Four Languages appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The fifth iteration of the Madrid-based Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction sends its winner to an Umbrian retreat. The post Spain’s 2022 Desperate Literature Prize Goes to Jay Gao appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-08-23 20:51:55 UTC ]
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TEGAN AND SARA TRAILER DROP, TEGAN AND SARA TRAILER DROP—this is not a drill! If you clicked on this, you’re probably well aware that the beloved sister indie pop duo published a memoir in 2019 called High School. Amazon Freevee (boo) is adapting it into a TV show (yay) starring Railey and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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When she was ten, she read O. Henry in hardback. In high school, Orwell was on the summer reading list. Now, it’s "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel" with her grandsons. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Essay Photo by Miko Guziuk / Unsplash In his newest book, What Is American Literature? (Oxford University Press, 2022), award-winning cultural commentator, translator, and editor Ilan Stavans, the publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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The 2022 edition of the Madrid-based Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction offers a long-form manuscript consultation and more. The post Based in Spain, Desperate Literature Opens Its 2022 Prize Program appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-26 14:38:51 UTC ]
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The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize has announced a new landmark partnership with The Literary Consultancy and revealed the judging line-up for 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A Pulitzer Prize all but guarantees a book a wider audience. Not so long ago it could also mean a new edition as an audiobook. A look at the winners and finalists of the 2021 Pulitzers, however, shows how thoroughly readers, publishers, and authors have embraced this alternate form of reading.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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