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  1. A new Austrian thriller centers on geocaching. Who wants to translate Poznanski's "Fünf"? ow.ly/b3oGA about 1 hour ago via Facebook
  2. Also in Big Bridge 16: Neeli Cherkovski on Art Beck's translation duet with late Latin poet Luxorius ow.ly/b3n25 about 4 hours ago via Facebook
  3. And the winners are... Marina Harss, Arthur Goldhammer, and Richard Howard win French translation prizes ow.ly/b8Ki4 about 5 hours ago via Facebook
  4. Big Bridge 16 is full of translations, with anthologies from Japan and Morocco, plus Iran, Georgia, Albania, Italy... ow.ly/b3mHT about 6 hours ago via Facebook
  5. Forty days, after eighty years: The Critical Flame reviews the complete "Musa Dagh" ow.ly/b3lUm about 22 hours ago via Facebook
  6. "One of poetry’s all-time greatest lunatics," Tomaž Šalamun, is "On the Tracks of Wild Game" (tr. Sonja Kravanja) ow.ly/b3l9d about 23 hours ago via Facebook
  7. The Culture Trip looks back on a Kyrgyz classic, Aitmatov’s The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years ow.ly/b3kNc 11:45 AM May 24th via Facebook
  8. Absinthe has posted 16 previews of issue 17, dedicated to Bulgarian writing ow.ly/b3kze 10:05 AM May 24th via Facebook
  9. Karl O. Knausgaard looks into a self-portrait by Rembrandt--from "My Struggle," translated by Don Bartlett ow.ly/b3kjX 8:25 AM May 24th via Facebook
  10. The art of freedom: Saramago's early "Manual of Panting and Calligraphy," finally available in the US ow.ly/b3jLi 6:45 AM May 24th via Facebook
  11. "Almost spellbinding confidence and Hitchcockian control": Open Letters really likes Binet's "HHhH" ow.ly/b3jgO 3:05 PM May 23rd via Facebook
  12. Ben Moser, biographer and translator of Clarice Lispector, is the featured interview on the podcast "That Other Word" ow.ly/b3j1d 1:25 PM May 23rd via Facebook
  13. Jorge Santiago Perednik's "The Shock of the Lenders," trans. by Molly Weigel: blow for blow with Argentina's Dirty War ow.ly/b3hZd 11:45 AM May 23rd via Facebook
  14. fwriction interviews Susan Bernofsky about translation and other kinds of reading and writing ow.ly/b3hrk 10:05 AM May 23rd via Facebook
  15. Fuminori Nakamura's existential "The Thief" marks the English debut of an award-winning Japanese writer ow.ly/b3g1g 8:25 AM May 23rd via Facebook
  16. Tonight, the St Mark's Poetry Project welcomes poet and translator Mark Weiss and poet David Abel ow.ly/b3fJP 6:45 AM May 23rd via Facebook
  17. Tomorrow in New York, the French-American Foundation celebrates 25 years of translation prizes (and awards this year's) ow.ly/b3frv 3:05 PM May 22nd via Facebook
  18. A loving portrait of a failed world: Douglas Messerli sits down with Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters ow.ly/b3fhB 1:25 PM May 22nd via Facebook
  19. Congratulations to the finalists for the 2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards! ow.ly/b4Q7I 11:05 AM May 22nd via Facebook
  20. "The productive chaos of investigative poetic work" ... EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts invites translations ow.ly/b3ewa 10:05 AM May 22nd via Facebook
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  • Location University of Texas at Dallas
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  • Bio The American Literary Translators Association promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators.
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