Ten Questions for Brynja Hjálmsdóttir and Rachel Britton
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Brynja Hjálmsdóttir and Rachel Britton, the author and translator of A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder / Kona lítur við.
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Genre: Translation
An Interview With Anne Carson
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“Your mind wants to move, and the best thing a work of art can do is take your mind with it, moving somewhere you never expected to move.” Anne Carson talks about the artists and philosophers who inspire her to create and think, and how boxing has helped her in the wake of her recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in a conversation with Norwegian author Linn Ullmann for this Louisiana Channel event.
Season of the Swamp: Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman
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In this event presented by Green Apple Books and the Center for the Art of Translation celebrating the launch of Yuri Herrera’s novel Season of the Swamp (Graywolf Press, 2024), translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, Herrera and Dillman read from the book and discuss their collaborative approach to translation in a conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
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Han Kang and Deborah Smith
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“It was like a very nice, pleasant chat.” In this 2016 Foyles video, Korean author Han Kang and translator Deborah Smith speak about working together on The Vegetarian (Portobello Books, 2015), which won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Kang is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Studio Faire
Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies year-round to artists and writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, at an early 19th-century house in Nérac, France. The residency accommodates up to six visitors at a time. Residents are provided with a private work space and bedroom and two bathrooms, as well as access to a common kitchen, dining room, and garden area.
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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
yes
Event Date:
January 14, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
yes
Application Deadline:
January 14, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
January 14, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Studio Faire, 58 Avenue Georges Clemenceau, 47600 Nérac, France. Julia Douglas, Cofounder and Residency Coordinator.
Julia Douglas
Cofounder and Residency Coordinator
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Nérac
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FR
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Essere Writer & Artist Residency
The Essere Writer & Artist Residency, which will be held from May 10, 2025, to May 24, 2025, and again from September 13, 2025, to September 27, 2025, offers two-week residencies at the medieval Camporsevoli estate in the Cetona province of Tuscany, Italy. The residency features programming for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, including craft talks by poet John Roedel, fiction and nonfiction writer Danielle Trussoni, and nonfiction writer Jennie Lee, as well as individual mentorship meetings with the guest artists in residence.
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RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date:
May 10, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
November 20, 2024
Financial Aid?:
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
November 20, 2024
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Essere Writer & Artist Residency, P.O. Box 39, Kailua, HI 96734. (978) 771-4000. Jennie Lee, Residency Director.
Jennie Lee
Residency Director
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Tuscany
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IT
Anderson Center Artist Residency Program
The 2024 Anderson Center Artist Residency Program offers residencies of two weeks or one month from August through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at Tower View, a 350-acre historic estate in Red Wing, Minnesota. Residents are provided with a private room, studio space, and meals. To apply, submit a writing sample of up to 10 pages, artist and community engagement statements, and a work plan with a $30 application fee by January 14, 2025.
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RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date:
August 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
January 14, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
January 14, 2025
Free Admission:
yes
Contact Information:
Anderson Center Artist Residency Program, 163 Tower View Drive, P.O. Box 406, Red Wing, MN 55066. (651) 388-2009. Laurel Stinson, Advancement and Residency Director.
Laurel Stinson
Advancement and Residency Director
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Red Wing
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MN
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
55066
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US
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems by A. B. Spellman and The Charterhouse of Padma by Padma Viswanathan.
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Translation Prize
French-American Foundation
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$0
Deadline:
January 10, 2025
Two prizes of $10,000 each are given annually for translations from French into English of a book of fiction and a book of nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) published in the United States during the current year. A jury of translators and literary professionals will judge. Authors, translators, agents, and publishers may submit six excerpts (three from the original French and three matching selections from the English translation) of approximately six pages each from a book published in 2024 by January 10, 2025. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs
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In this event, authors Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs discuss writing about specific places, fiction’s relationship to personal truth, and their literary inspirations in a conversation with Motoyuki Shibata, translator and founder of the Japanese journal MONKEY New Writing From Japan. Kawakami’s new novel, Under the Eye of the Big Bird (Soft Skull Press, 2024), ), translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda, is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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