June 10 Newsletter Out
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Summer of Reckoning Blog Tour March April 2020
Summer of Reckoning Blog Tour March 30-April 10, 2020
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Claudia Pineiro Q&A LOCKDOWN IN BUENOS AIRES
How are these surreal days influencing your normal writing process?
It was very difficult for me writing fiction in the first weeks of quarantine. I only could write non-fiction. But now I days I’m begging to write fiction again. The more complicated item is to image the new world if you write stories that happen in real-time, not dystopic ones.
VIDEO Claudia Pineiro from Argentina
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Ben Pastor Lockdown Q&A
My Italian husband and I are staying in our old home in the hills just south of the Po river, a rolling countryside about one hour and half from Milan. This is, as everyone knows, the region of northern Italy most severely affected by coronavirus. In total lockdown, self-isolation is very strict.
Amanda Hopkinson about translating "Rage" by Argentine novelist Sergio Bizzio
Amanda Hopkinson, translator from Spanish of “Rage” by the Argentine novelist Sergio Bizzio: "A translator may suspect s/he is in for trouble when even the title of the next book gives rise to some musing. Rabia means both ‘rage’ and ‘rabies’..."
Antonia Lloyd-Jones about translating the crime novels of Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Whenever I’m asked for an example of a spicy Polish phrase, the idiom that comes to mind is one that I first encountered in “A Grain of Truth” by Zygmunt Miłoszewski. You’ll find it on page 79, when the main character, Prosecutor Szacki, is relieved to hear that his boss will deal with the journalists asking awkward questions about his case. “Not his circus, not his monkeys”, he thinks – not his problem....
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Emily Read about translating The Family by Tonino Benacquista
Emily Read, much-acclaimed translator from the French, about translating The Family by Tonino Benacquista, made into a film with Robert de Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones.
Peter Bush about translating Havana Red
Peter Bush, award-winning translator from Spanish and Catalan, about the challenges of translating Havana Red, the first in Leonardo Padura’s Havana Quartet.
