World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2024, by Michelle Johnson Lit Lists [email protected] Mon, 12/09/2024 - 16:28 It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate. The inaugural volume of Best Literary Translations 2024 arrived, published by Deep Vellum. Reviewing it for World Literature Today, Alice-Catherine Carls wrote that “while most authors are contemporary, texts written in Old Egyptian, Ancient Greek, medieval rune, Tigrinya, Mapuche-Huilliche, and Wayuu remind us of the need to protect endangered literatures.” We look forward to the 2025 volume, guest-edited by Cristina Rivera Garza. In other notable translation news, a new publisher entered the field: Foundry Editions published four books in English translation. House of Anansi published Innie Shadows, written and translated by Olivia M. Coetzee, the first novel translated from Kaaps, a dialect of Afrikaans, while Knopf published a translation of a rediscovered novel by Gabriel García Márquez: Until August, translated by Anne McLean. Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated by Michael Hofmann, won the International Booker Prize. Erpenbeck has appeared in World Literature Today and visited the University of Oklahoma when she was the Puterbaugh Fellow in 2018. Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Ananda Devi won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Kazim Ali and Jeffrey Zuckerman, both... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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The Center for Fiction just announced the longlist for this year’s best debut novel. The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner will be announced in December at The Center for Fiction’s Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner at its new, spacious, happening location in Brooklyn.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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A drowning haunts Susan Steinberg’s dark first novel about teenagers’ summer adventures. Continue reading at The Atlantic
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Fig Tree will publish journalist and author Dolly Alderton’s debut novel, Ghosts, about a food writer with a dedicated online following whose personal life is falling apart. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Tochi Onyebuchi’s young adult books, the duology Beasts Made of Night and Crown of Thunder, are fantasy novels with a Nigeria-influenced setting. His upcoming War Girls is set in a post-nuclear, post-climate change Nigeria of 2172. Riot Baby, his first novel for adults (also forthcoming), is a... Continue reading at Electric Literature
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She published her first novel at 50, and her heroines were invariably rich, savvy, ambitious and preternaturally beautiful. Continue reading at The New York Times
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As she celebrates a series of career milestones—which coincide with the 20th anniversary of her publisher, Dafina Books—the author starts a new chapter by revisiting classic characters in the long-awaited sequel to her first novel, My Brother’s Keeper. (Sponsored) Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado I've absolutely loved this collection of short stories, which floats between the weird and the queer, passing horror, black comedy and feminism along the way. Doubles and others are especially important: a wife enters her wife’s dream when they... Continue reading at British Council global
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