BookExpo America has announced a 'Global Market Forum: Books in Translation' for next year's BEA.
With "prestigious partners" such as Literary Translation at Columbia, the PEN World Voices Festival, publisher Open Letter Books, the American Literary Translators Association, and (what I assume is) the Center for the Art of Translation this sounds like it has a whole of potential, and I look forward to what they come up with.
(Aside: prestigious these partners might be, but none seem in much of a rush to get on the PR bandwagon: not a one of them even mention this anywhere on their sites. Sure, it's almost a year from now, and these are the slow summer months, but come on, this is news, of sorts, and it's ridiculous that, for example, I'm reporting it before the participants are.)
With "prestigious partners" such as Literary Translation at Columbia, the PEN World Voices Festival, publisher Open Letter Books, the American Literary Translators Association, and (what I assume is) the Center for the Art of Translation this sounds like it has a whole of potential, and I look forward to what they come up with.
(Aside: prestigious these partners might be, but none seem in much of a rush to get on the PR bandwagon: not a one of them even mention this anywhere on their sites. Sure, it's almost a year from now, and these are the slow summer months, but come on, this is news, of sorts, and it's ridiculous that, for example, I'm reporting it before the participants are.)