English PEN has announced their latest batch of translation support grants -- English PEN Awards for promotion, given to publishers to help promote specific titles, and the English PEN grants for translation, given for the translation-work.
The translation-grants offer a tantalizing glimpse of what we can soon(er or later, we hope) find on offer in English. They include one title already under review at the complete review -- Alek Popov's Мисия Лондон -- as well as books by quite a few authors I am excited about (Sinisalo, Liksom, Topol, Erpenbeck, Gamboa). A bit disappointing: that the Walter Kempowski translation is apparently only of the fourth and final volume of his 'collective diary' of the war years.
But great also to see that there's a new translation, by Julian Evans, in the works of André Gide's Les Caves du Vatican. I have the 1925 (!) translation by Dorothy Bussy (it was first published as The Vatican Swindle, and soon later as Lafcadio's Adventures (and since, also -- in the Penguin Twentieth Century Classics series -- as The Vatican Cellars)); you can get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- but I'd suggest it's worth waiting to see what Evans does with it.
The translation-grants offer a tantalizing glimpse of what we can soon(er or later, we hope) find on offer in English. They include one title already under review at the complete review -- Alek Popov's Мисия Лондон -- as well as books by quite a few authors I am excited about (Sinisalo, Liksom, Topol, Erpenbeck, Gamboa). A bit disappointing: that the Walter Kempowski translation is apparently only of the fourth and final volume of his 'collective diary' of the war years.
But great also to see that there's a new translation, by Julian Evans, in the works of André Gide's Les Caves du Vatican. I have the 1925 (!) translation by Dorothy Bussy (it was first published as The Vatican Swindle, and soon later as Lafcadio's Adventures (and since, also -- in the Penguin Twentieth Century Classics series -- as The Vatican Cellars)); you can get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- but I'd suggest it's worth waiting to see what Evans does with it.