Interviews Veronica Esposito Ottilie Mulzet is the principal English-language translator of Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, winner of numerous international honors. Together, they received the 2019 National Book Award in Translation for Mulzet’s translation of Krasznahorkai’s novel Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming. She has also translated writing by Szilárd Borbély (WLT, Nov. 2014, 15), Gábor Schein, and others. Veronica Esposito: You are someone who has worked extensively with László Krasznahorkai, one of the leading translated authors of our time. What institutions were key to furthering this kind of translation work? Ottilie Mulzet: When I began translating—short feuilletons by interwar authors, such as Frigyes Karinthy—there were really just a select handful of presses that specialized in translation. There are so many more small presses now specializing in translation into English; the overall landscape is radically different, and much more varied, I think to the immense benefit of all. What helped me specifically at the beginning were certain internet fora, such as Hungarian Literature Online, from where, for example, the Guardian picked up a story by Krasznahorkai in 2009 to run as part of a “twenty years after” series of stories from eastern Europe. I also need to mention the translation workshops I attended in Hungary (run at the time by the Attila József circle and guided by poets András Imreh and Péter Rácz); I met a... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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