Were you to give your own award to a translated book from the last year, who would win? Tell us a little about your top pick.
Juan José Saer’s ‘Scars’ is a Beautiful, Dark Lesson in Humility
Scars is a beautifully-structured lesson in humility and perspective, accented with sparkling, if dark, humor.
Ingrid Winterbach’s Novel Leaves You Aching for the Dramatic Denouement
Ingrid Winterbach’s new novel translated from the Afrikaans, The Book of Happenstance, leaves the reading waiting for a resolution or dramatic action that never comes.
The Three Percent Problem Available as an E-book, Buy on Friday
The Three Percent Problem: Rants and Responses on Publishing, Translation, and the Future of Reading is now available as a $2.99 e-book.
Want More Rights Deals/Translations? Court Editors with Culture
From the PP archives, Chad Post of Open Letter Books says the best way to get more translations is to take editors abroad and “court them with culture.”
Why Selling E-books at 99 Cents Destroys Minds
Chad Post, the publisher of Open Letter Books, explains why his company decided to sell e-books and price them at $4.99.
2011 Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced
Poetry: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry Fiction: Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal Each winning author and translator will receive a $5,000 prize sponsored by Amazon.com From the press release: April 29, 2011 — The winning titles and translators for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards …
Best Translated Book Award Finalists: A Showcase of Indie Press Excellence
By Ed Nawotka Chad Post, frequent contributor and friend to Publishing Perspectives, has announced the finalists for the third year of the Best Translated Book Awards. As always, it’s a cheat sheet for some of the very best foreign literature you can read in English. The list is also notable for the absence of any titles from Big Six publishers, …
Mathias Énard’s ‘Zone’: Brilliance in a Single 517 Page Sentence
By Dennis Abrams It really shouldn’t work at all — Matias Énard’s Zone. This novel, the story of Francis Servain Mirkovic, fighter in the Balkan Wars, spy, and amateur historian, traveling from Milan to Rome by train, carrying a briefcase filled with names, photos, and information about the violent history of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean – the “Zone,” as …
Reading the Age of Screens, Continued
By Hannah Johnson Publishing Perspectives contributor and publisher of Open Letter Press, Chad W. Post, wrote a piece called “Reading in the Age of Screens” in which he discussed how book discovery works in the digital age. He asked how readers can find the “pattern-breaking” books, the truly revolutionary literature that is unlike anything they’ve read before, in an age …