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New Vessel Press
New Vessel Press is an independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature and narrative nonfiction into English. New Vessel Press books have been widely reviewed in publications including ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal,'' ''The New York Review of Books'', and ''O, The Oprah Magazine''. They have also garnered numerous awards. ''What's Left of the Night'', a novel about the poet C.P. Cavafy by Ersi Sotiropoulou and translated from the Modern Greek by Karen Emmerich, won the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose. History Origins New Vessel Press was co-founded by writer/translator Ross Ufberg and author/journalist Michael Z. Wise in 2012, with the intention of bringing foreign literature to English-speaking audiences. Its first books were published in 2013. New Vessel Press books are distributed to bookstores and online vendors throughout the United States by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution; they are distribute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Group Canada
Raincoast Books is a Canadian book distribution and wholesale company. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Raincoast was founded by Mark Stanton and Allan MacDougall in 1979 as a consignment wholesaler that shared overhead, warehouse space and staff with the pair's sales agency, Stanton & MacDougall. Today, Raincoast has over 90 employees and three divisions: Raincoast Distribution, Publishers Group Canada, and BookExpress. Divisions Raincoast Distribution Raincoast Distribution is a Canadian company which provides complete sales, marketing and fulfillment services to a wide range of general trade and gift publishers from the United States, Britain and Canada. Companies distributed by Raincoast include Chronicle Books, Drawn & Quarterly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, New Harbinger and St. Martin's Press. Publishers represented by Raincoast Distribution :Beginning Press : Bilingual Books, Inc. :Bloomsbury :Chronicle Books :Creative Company : Drawn & Quarter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Bursa
Andrzej Bursa (21 March 1932 – 15 November 1957) was a Polish poet and writer. Born in Kraków, he studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1954–1957 Bursa worked as a journalist and reporter for the Kraków newspaper ''Dziennik Polski''. Many of his contemporaries attributed his early death at the age of 25 to suicide, while the true cause of it was a congenital heart disease. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery. Bursa published his first poem in 1954. A prolific writer, he published 37 poems and a short story in different magazines during his lifetime. He died of a heart attack in 1957. Shortly thereafter, his first poetry collection was published, an important event in Polish poetry. Presently, there is a poetry prize named after Bursa which many living Polish poets have won (e.g. Ewa Lipska and Stanisław Barańczak). External links Andrzej Bursa Poetry, at www.guernicamag.comAndrzej Bursa Poetry, at www.andrzejbursa.republika.pl [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
Yitzhak( ()) is a male first name, and is Hebrew for Isaac. Yitzhak may refer to: People *Yitzhak ha-Sangari, rabbi who converted the Khazars to Judaism * Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995), Israeli politician and Prime Minister *Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), Israeli politician and Prime Minister *Yitzhak Aharonovich (born 1950), Israeli politician * Yitzhak Apeloig (born 1944), Israeli computational chemistry professor and President of the Technion * Yitzhak Arad (1926–2021), Israeli historian * Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (1906–2006), Israeli politician *Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884–1963), Israeli politician and President * Yitzhak Danziger (1916–1977), Israeli sculptor * Yitzhak Hatuel (born 1962), Israeli Olympic foil fencer *Yitzhak Hofi (1927–2014), Israeli general *Yitzhak Laor (born 1948), Israeli poet * Yitzhak Mastai (born 1966), Israeli professor of chemistry * Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Israeli-American philosophy professor * Yitzhak Molcho (born 1945), Israeli lawyer * Yitzhak Mordechai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Fabre
Dominique Fabre (born in Paris in 1960 in literature, 1960) is a French novelist who focuses "on the lives of individuals on the margins of society." Books * ''Moi aussi un jour j'irai loin'', 1995 * ''Ma vie d'Edgar'', 1998 * ''Celui qui n'est pas là'', 1999 * ''Fantômes'', 2001 * ''Mon quartier'', 2002 * ''Pour une femme de son âge'', 2003 * ''La serveuse était nouvelle'', 2005 :''The Waitress Was New'', 2008 (English language, English trans. Jordan Stump, Archipelago Books) * ''Le Perron'', 2006 * ''Les Types comme moi'', 2007 :''Guys Like Me'', 2015 (English language, English, trans. Howard Curtis, New Vessel Press) * ''J'attends l'extinction des feux'', 2008 * ''Les Prochaines Vacances'', 2008 * ''Avant les monstres'', 2009 * ''J'aimerais revoir Callaghan'', 2010 * ''Il faudrait s'arracher le coeur'', 2012 * ''Des nuages et des tours'', 2013 * ''Photos volees'', 2014 * ''Je t'emmenerai danser chez Lavorel'', 2014 * ''La Mallette/Quand on a des blessures, les pas sont plu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjana Gaponenko
Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko (; born 6 September 1981) is a German writer born in Odesa, Ukraine. Life Marjana Gaponenko spent her childhood and youth in Odessa. After leaving school, she studied German at the University of Odessa and started to write poems and publish. In Germany she was initially promoted by Erik Martin in Muschelhaufen, and she became known to a wider circle of readers. In 2000, she made her debut with the poetry collection ''How tearless knights.'' In 2001 she was one of the candidates for the title " Author of the Year" magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt. in 2010 published the first novel, Annushka flower, the Residenz Verlag. Poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish. She is a member of the Author Forum'' The Golden Fish''. In her novel ''Who is Martha ?'' (2012), two old men spend their last days in a posh Vienna Hotel and wait for death. "As amazing as the young uthor ", Volker Hage wrote in Der Spiegel, "also h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milena Michiko Flašar
Milena may refer to: * ''Milena'' (skipper), a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae * Milena, Sicily, a ''comune'' in the Province of Caltanissetta, Italy * Milena (given name), a popular female Slavic name * ''Milena'' (film), a 1991 French biographical film about Czech writer Milena Jesenská See also *Malena (other) *Molina (other) *Malina (other) *Melena *Melina (other) *Milina Milina ( Serbian: Милина) is a village in the municipality of Loznica, Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast E ... * Molena {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Mairal
Pedro Mairal (born 1970) is an Argentine novelist, poet and musician. He has published more than a dozen books, among them the novel ''La Uruguaya'' (English translation: ''The Woman from Uruguay'') which won the Tigre Juan Award in 2017. His work has been translated into French, German, Arabic, English and Dutch. In 2007, he was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f .... He also is part of the Generation of 90, with other argentine writers such as Fabián Casas, Santiago Vega, Samanta Schweblin and Selva Almada. Biography Pedro Mairal was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 27, 1970. He began studying medicine in 1989, but soon stopped. In 1991 he began studying language an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shemi Zarhin
Shimon "Shemi" Zarhin ( he, שמעון "שמי" זרחין, born 1961) is an Israeli novelist and film director. He was born in Tiberias and studied film at Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate .... His movies include titles such as '' Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi'' (2003), '' Aviva My Love'' (2006), and '' The World is Funny'' (2012). His first novel ''Some Day'' was a bestseller in Israel and has been translated into English by Yardenne Greenspan. In March 2020 Helicon Music released the soundtrack for Aviva My Love Awards * for literature, awarded by the Municipality of Holon (2013) References Israeli writers 1961 births Living people Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works {{Israel-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Spiel
Hilde Spiel (19 October 1911 – 30 November 1990) (pseudonyms: Grace Hanshaw and Jean Lenoir) was an Austrian writer and journalist who received numerous awards and honours. Biography Youth in Vienna Hilde Spiel was born in Vienna in October 1911, into a prosperous assimilated Jewish family. Her paternal grandfather had attained a level of prominence in Vienna as a salesman, living in the 1st district of the capital.Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the fin-de-siècle to the present, Hilary Hope Herzog, Berghahn Books, 2011, p. 204 Her parents, who became Roman Catholics as adults,Gender, Memory and Judaism, ed. Judit Gazsi, Andrea Pető, and Zsuzsanna Toronyi, Balassi Kiado, 2007, p. 90 were Hugo F. Spiel, an engineering research chemist and an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and Marie (née Gutfeld). For the first ten years of her life she lived in a garden apartment in Probusgasse in the prestigious Heiligenstadt, in the 19th distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Hlasko , also spelled Merek, a village in Iran
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Marek is the West Slavic (Czech, Polish and Slovak) masculine equivalent of Marcus, Marc or Mark. The name may refer to: * Marek (given name) * Marek (surname) * Marek, the pseudonym of Bulgarian communist Stanke Dimitrov (1889–1944) * The title character of '' Oberinspektor Marek'', an Austrian television series See also * * Marek's disease * VC Marek Union-Ivkoni, Bulgarian professional men's volleyball team, based in Dupnitsa * Marek i Wacek (meaning Marek and Wacek), a musical duo of Polish pianists Marek Tomaszewski and Wacław "Wacek" Kisielewski * Marrick * Merrick (other) * Mereg Mereg ( fa, مرگ; also known as Mark, Merek, Merk, and Mirg) is a village in Sarkal Rural District, in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. As of the 2006 census, it had a population of 372, distributed among 80 fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killing The Second Dog
''Killing the Second Dog'' (Polish: ''Drugie zabicie psa'') is a novel by Polish writer Marek Hłasko. The novel, published in 1965, is the first in his so-called "Israeli trilogy", a series of novels following the exploits of Jacob and Robert, con-artists who prey on women. Background Hłasko, who had left communist Poland in 1958, landed in Israel in 1959. Unable to find work or fit into Israeli society, he lived as a vagrant, though his income from previous publications staved off destitution. By 1960 he had moved again, to West Germany. The semi-autobiographical ''Killing the Second Dog'' was published in 1965, followed the next year by ''Nawrócony w Jaffie'' ("Converted in Jaffa"). The third part of the trilogy is the novella ''Opowiem wam o Esther'' ("I want to tell you about Esther"). Content Jacob (in whom we should see the author, according to Arnon Grunberg) and Robert are con men in Tel Aviv who prey on single women who visit Israel. The con starts with Jacob, posing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
