At the Los Angeles Review of Books Claire Cameron interviews translator-from-the-Dutch Sam Garrett, in The Fluent Medium of Translation.
Nice to see -- but a bit disappointing to see so much focus on Herman Koch's The Dinner and not even a mention of Arnon Grunberg's similar-in-some-ways but so obviously superior Tirza (yes, he translated both).
Nice to see -- but a bit disappointing to see so much focus on Herman Koch's The Dinner and not even a mention of Arnon Grunberg's similar-in-some-ways but so obviously superior Tirza (yes, he translated both).