They've announced the 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Fund recipients -- grants of US$3,300 each -- and there are some great-sounding projects here, from familiar authors -- a new Tabucchi that Archipelago is bringing out, another Franz Fühmann (his "highly personal (auto)biographical response to the great Expressionist poet Georg Trakl" -- though the working title 'At the Burning Abyss' doesn't have quite the same (Traklian) lyric beauty as the original Vor Feuerschlünden (a book I've read and was very impressed by, by the way)) coming from Seagull, to Vasily Kamensky's ferro-concrete poems: "Originally printed on wall-paper and decorated with cubo-futurist drawings".
Mateiu Caragiale's Rakes of the Old Court sounds pretty awesome, too.
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