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The premier site for world literature. London Book Fair winner. Daily blog, fortnightly airmails. Sign up for our newsletters: tinyurl.com/asymptoteme
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"Literature is a meeting of strangers. Few things are more mysterious or more fraught than that. That’s especially true of literary translation, where the translator acts as the quiet yet active host discreetly enabling the conversation to unfold."
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A "fractured syntax that rejects any illusion of an unwrinkled personal narrative" brings alive the streets of Mexico City in @ClaudinaDomingo's poetry. Don't miss the thrilling recording made by the poet with her mother and brother just for our new issue! bit.ly/2KPzb2j pic.twitter.com/D5BCGCSXpy
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Martin Hägglund argues that to live well requires two things: we need to face our choices with clarity, and we need the power to make choices that matter.
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"Tripoli is anywhere and everywhere my father is. I see it in a bowl of oranges."
Lebanese-American poet Ruth Awad on writing about her roots.
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Virlana Tkacz, a translator and theater director, and Wanda Phipps, an American poet, have been collaboratively translating Serhiy Zhadan — the unofficial poet laureate of eastern Ukraine — for well over a decade.
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14. mai |
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A trailblazing and internationally renowned African writer, Mariama Bâ's rich and complex portaits of a newly-independent Senegal are vastly underrated. via @parisreview tinyurl.com/y2l7vb2v
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14. mai |
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Mohamed Hemamsi reports on the benefits of translation from Portuguese into Arabic: Brazilian literature deserves open bridges to Arab culture, a culture that has influenced the hearts and minds of many of its distinguished literary figures.
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14. mai |
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State censorship of the publishing industry in Iran is intensifying, causing book publishers to become more cautious than ever, according to Alireza Behnam, a journalist, poet and translator.
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14. mai |
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In “Self-Portrait in Bloom,” Niloufar Talebi recounts her experiences coming of age in Iran and California, the challenges of working in multiple genres, her bond with poet Ahmad Shamlou and his outsized cultural legacy.
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14. mai |
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By far the most personal essay in our Special Feature on translation, J. Vera Lee's "My Mother’s Cemetery" is as much a moving portrait of the author's mother as it is an argument for embracing "shadows and displacement" in translation. Not to be missed. bit.ly/2GvHQmj pic.twitter.com/XrNZ1OZzFU
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13. mai |
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What is the role of literature in an 'increasingly hardening world'? Arundhati Roy on the solace and shelter literature can provide, and why we need it now more than ever. @GuardianBooks tinyurl.com/y6punv9d
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13. mai |
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The Icelandic publishers Tunglið Forlag (moon books) publish to a lunar schedule. Work begins on a new manuscript on the new moon. By the time of the full moon, sixty-nine copies of each book have been printed, and there is a launch party. bit.ly/2HiJdoY
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13. mai |
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“I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life...” László Krasznahorkai on his latest work.
Out this month are some of this year's most hotly anticipated releases. Don't miss these reviews by the Asymptote team! bit.ly/2HjvVak @DaljinderJohal pic.twitter.com/1to11cbkzW
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13. mai |
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Khaled Khalifa’s “Death is Hard Work” is interested in the blindness of fate and the accidental nature of life, as well as the extent to which an individual can sustain his or her ambivalence in the face of a civil war.
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13. mai |
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This is a call for essays written originally in English. Guidelines can be found here: asymptotejournal.com/contest
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13. mai |
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13. mai |
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41 million native Spanish speakers and 12 million bilinguals live in the United States, a country with no official language. Yet, nearly half of white Republicans and eighteen percent of white Democrats are bothered by hearing foreign languages.
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13. mai |
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Hey everybody, @NobelPrize winner J. M. Coetzee is helping us award up to $1,000 in prizes for our next essay contest! tinyurl.com/asymptoteconte…
All you have to do is tell us about a writer who deserves to be better known in the Anglophone world. Sounds good? Then spread the word! pic.twitter.com/l8pA7jueEm
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13. mai |
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How can translation keep up with the speed of technology? And how can technology be equipped with the skills of a translator?
Blind to the nuances of language, AI translation produces texts that usually miss the deeper meaning of words and sentences.
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12. mai |
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"In writing "No More Boats," I wanted to write something really complicated, something about how ‘outsiders’ and ‘insiders’ navigate all that fear of our borders in complicated and unpredictable ways." @FelicityCastagn bit.ly/2VSVcBC
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