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Best Translated Book Award
The Best Translated Book Award was an American literary award that recognized the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction. It was inaugurated in 2008 and was conferred by Three Percent, the online literary magazine of Open Letter Books, which is the book translation press of the University of Rochester. A long list and short list were announced each year leading up to the award. The award took into consideration not only the quality of the translation but the entire package: the work of the original writer, translator, editor, and publisher. The award was "an opportunity to honor and celebrate the translators, editors, publishers, and other literary supporters who help make literature from other cultures available to American readers." In October 2010 Amazon.com announced it would be underwriting the prize with a $25,000 grant. This would allow both the translator and author to receive a $5,000 prize. Prior to this the award di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology Amazon or Amazone may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer * Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters * The Amazon, a '' Diablo II'' character * The Amazon, a '' Pro Wrestling'' character * Amazon (''Dragon's Crown''), a character from the ''Dragon's Crown'' game * '' Kamen Rider Amazon'', title character in the fourth installment of the ''Kamen Rider'' series Film and television * ''The Amazons'' (1917 film), an American silent tragedy film * ''The Amazon'' (film), a 1921 German silent film * '' War Goddess'', also known as ''The Amazons'', a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama * ''Amazons'' (1984 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (translator)
Bill Johnston (born 1960) is a prolific Polish language literary translator and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. His work has helped expose English-speaking readers to classic and contemporary Polish poetry and fiction. Life Bill Johnston read Modern Languages at the University of Oxford (University College) and graduated in 1982. He earned his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Career In 2008 Johnston received the Found in Translation Award for his translation of new poems by Tadeusz Różewicz. The book was also a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Poetry Award. In 1999 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry (Translation) for ''Balladina'' by Juliusz Słowacki, and in 2005 a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for a translation of ''The Coming Spring'' by Stefan Żeromski. He has received an Amicus Poloniae award, presented by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crônica Da Casa Assassinada
''Crônica da casa assassinada'' hronicle of the Murdered House(1959) is an epistolary novel by Brazilian writer Lúcio Cardoso (1913–1968), adapted into the film '' A casa assassinada'' 'The Murdered House''(1971), directed by Paulo César Saraceni. Synopsis The story is told through letters, diary pages, and memories, and reveals elements of jealousy, grudges and taboo themes. It takes place in an old farm in the interior of Minas Gerais, which is visited by a woman. The story focuses on the decay of the Meneses family and depicts themes such as extramarital affairs, forbidden love, incestuous relationships, kinship, homosexuality, and violent acts. A decaying farmhouse in a provincial town in Minas Gerais is at the core of the action and becomes a major character. The plot is punctuated by sin, death and illness, and it shows the result of the presence of three brothers (Demétrio, Valdo and Timóteo) and two wives (Ana and Nina). Nina is a stunningly beautiful woman w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lúcio Cardoso
Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, known as Lúcio Cardoso (August 14, 1912 – September 22, 1968), was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and poet. Biography The son of an impoverished but prominent family in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Lúcio Cardoso was the brother of Adauto Lúcio Cardoso, a congressman for the center-right National Democratic Union (Brazil), National Democratic Union and later justice of the Supreme Federal Court; and of Maria Helena Cardoso, who became a respected writer herself as a memorialist, including the editing of the posthumous memoirs of her brother Lúcio (''Por onde andou meu coração'', 1967; ''Vida-vida'', 1973; and ''Sonata perdida: Anotações de uma velha dama digna'', 1979). At an early age, after attending school in Belo Horizonte, Cardoso moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he got a job in the Equitativa insurance company. He soon came to the notice of the group of writers around the wealthy industrialist (and a poet himself) Augusto Frederico Schmidt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Dillman
Lisa or LISA may refer to: People People with the mononym * Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), stylized "LISA" * Lisa, stagename of Japanese singer Lisa Komine (born 1978) * Lisa (South Korean singer) (born 1980) * Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1987), stylized "LiSA" * Lisa (rapper) (born 1997), Thai rapper, member of K-pop group Blackpink * Lisa (French musician) (born 1997) People with the name *Lisa (given name), a feminine given name * Lisa (surname), a list of notable people with the surname Places Romania * Lisa, Brașov * Lisa, Teleorman * Lisa, a village in Schitu, Olt * Lisa River United States * Fort Lisa (Nebraska) (1812–1823), a trading post in the US * Fort Lisa (North Dakota) (1809–1812), a trading post in the US Elsewhere * Lisa, Ivanjica, a municipality in Serbia * Lisa, Ogun, a village in Ifo, Ogun State, Nigeria * La Lisa, a municipality of Havana, Cuba Arts, entertainment and media Films * ''Lisa'' (1962 film) or ''The Inspector'', a drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signs Preceding The End Of The World
Signs may refer to: Film and television * ''Signs'' (film), a 2002 American film by M. Night Shyamalan * ''Signs'' (TV series) (Polish: ''Znaki''), a 2018 Polish crime-thriller series * "Signs" (''Ted Lasso''), a 2023 TV episode Music * Signs (band), an American reggaeton duet Albums * ''Signs'' (Badmarsh & Shri album) or the title song, 2001 * ''Signs'' (Jonny Lang album) or the title song, 2017 * ''Signs'' (Tedeschi Trucks Band album), 2019 *''Signs'', by Delerium, 2023 *''Signs'', by the Kathryn Tickell Band, 1993 *''Signs'', by Runtown, 2022 Songs * "Signs" (Bloc Party song), 2009 * "Signs" (Cardiacs song), 1999 * "Signs" (Drake song), 2017 * "Signs" (Five Man Electrical Band song), 1970 * "Signs" (Luca Hänni song), 2018 * "Signs" (Snoop Dogg song), 2005 *"Signs", by Beyoncé featuring Missy Elliott from ''Dangerously in Love'', 2003 *"Signs", by Creed from ''Weathered'', 2001 *"Signs", by Guru Randhawa, 2022 *"Signs", by Starley, 2018 *"Signs", by Tate McRae from ''So Clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera (born 1970) is a Mexican political scientist, editor, and contemporary writer. He currently teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. Biography Yuri Herrera studied Political Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, obtained a master's degree in Creative Writing at the University of Texas, El Paso, and a Ph.D., 2009, in Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the literary magazine ''El perro'' and a Mellow Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University. His first novel, ''Trabajos del reino'', won the 2004 Premio Binacional de Novela Joven. The novel was also published in Spain (Periférica, 2008) and won the Premio Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos, being considered the best work of fiction published in Spain by a jury of 100 people, including editors, journalists and cultural critics. Elena Poniatowska characterised his prose as "stunning" and the novel as an entrance "to the golden gate of Mexican l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
Anneliese (, ) is a female given name of either German, Dutch or Nordic origin. It is a compound form of "Anna" and "Liese", a short form of " Elisabeth". It may refer to: * Anneliese Augustin (1930–2021), German politician * Anneliese Bauer, East German slalom canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s *Anneliese Bläsing (1923–1996), German politician * Anneliese Borwitz, German slalom canoeist * Anneliese Brandler (1904–1970), German chess player * Anneliese Bulling (1900–2004), German-American art historian *Anneliese Dodds (born 1978), British politician *Anneliese Dørum (1939–2000), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *Anneliese Gerhards (born 1935), German athlete *Anneliese Graes (1930–1992), German detective * Anneliese Groscurth (1910–1996), wife of Georg Groscurth, member an antifascist German resistance group in Berlin during the Nazi era * Anneliese Heard (born 1981), Welsh triathlete from Bassaleg near Newport, Wales * Anneliese Hitzen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Lover
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Xue
Deng Xiaohua (, ; born May 30, 1953), better known by her pen name Can Xue (, ; lit: 'lingering snow'), is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic. Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers. She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticism of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Can Xue has been described as "China’s most prominent author of experimental fiction," "Critics focusing on Can Xue are often scholars or translators of Chinese literature; they assure us that she is "peerless" as a writer of experimental literature in China" and most of her fiction has been translated and published in English. Life Deng Xiaohua was born in 1953, in Changsha, Hunan, China. Her early life was marked by a series of tragic hardships which influenced the direction o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Mulzet
Ottilie Mulzet (born July, 1960 in Toronto) is a literary translator of Hungarian poetry and prose whose work has been recognized with several major literary awards. She is known in particular for her translations of several books by László Krasznahorkai. Her translation of Krasznahorkai's novel ''Seiobo There Below'' won the Best Translated Book Award in 2014. She was also awarded the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for her work on Krasznahorkai together with George Szirtes, who translated Krasznahorkai's novel ''Satantango''. Other Krasznahorkai titles Mulzet has translated include ''Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens'' and ''Animalinside''. She has also translated books by Szilárd Borbély (including ''Berlin-Hamlet'', which was shortlisted for both the National Translation Award and the Best Translated Book Award in 2017) and Gábor Schein. Mulzet won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of '' Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiobo There Below
''Seiobo There Below'' () is a 2008 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. It has an episodic narrative which focuses on artists of different times and places, some of which are historical people and some of which are fictional. A thematic link between the episodes can be seen in the Japanese goddess Seiobo who appears in one of the chapters of the novel. The 17 chapters are numbered according to the Fibonacci sequence, beginning with 1 and ending with 2584. The English translation by Ottilie Mulzet received the Best Translated Book Award in 2014. Synopsis 1. Kamo-Hunter An Ooshirosagi stands motionless in the Kamo River waiting to spear its fish. Its intense beauty goes unnoticed, but if it were to be seen at the moment of striking, it could change the life of the witness. The chapter moves between the heron and meditation on the larger city of Kyoto itself, and its unnoticed beauties. 2. The Exiled Queen This chapter is a telling of the story of Vashti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
