Tag: Literature in Translation

April 18, 2019

Book Excerpt and Media Roundup: Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems

“The work of Taiwanese poet Yang Mu brings vivid and playful pastoral imagery. He examines both Chinese and Western literary and cultural traditions through his personal lens, and his writing retains its beautifully lyrical nature through the translation.” ~ Yang...

July 27, 2018

Sentimental Tales: A Note on the Cover

This week we’re featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Today, we’re offering you some insight about the book’s cover. Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich is the cover designer for the Russian Library series. While the books have visual components that help them to hang...

July 26, 2018

Poking Jokes: On Translating Mikhail Zoshchenko’s “Sentimental Tales”

“Some texts are just too funny—and too important—not to share with an audience that would otherwise have no access to them.” ~ Boris Dralyuk This week we’ve been featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Now that you’ve had a chance to read the...

July 25, 2018

Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales

This week we’re featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Last week, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia excerpted the prefaces from the book as part of the Summer Reading Series. Below, is the first excerpt in the series. Remember...

July 24, 2018

Introducing Sentimental Tales

Mikhail Zoshchenko was a popular leading Soviet satirist in the 1920s. Last month, we released the translation of Sentimental Tales, which are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. Translated by Boris...

May 3, 2017

Interview with Thomas J. Kitson, translator of Iliazd's Rapture

Today Veniamin Gushchin, CC ’18, Russian Library Intern interviews Thomas J. Kitson about his translation of Rapture by Iliazd

January 9, 2012

Jennifer Crewe on University Presses' Commitment to Translation

The following is a letter from Columbia University Press’s editorial director and associate director Jennifer Crewe in response to a recent article in The Chronicle Review on books in translation. I would otherwise wholeheartedly applaud Carlin Romano’s article “American Readers’...

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