August 9, 2010 | Posted by admin Sometimes articles on translated science fiction turn up in strangest places: like the Financial Times. Our thanks to author James Lovegrove for doing some great PR work for non-Anglophone science fiction here.
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May 21, 2010 | Posted by admin Over at Strange Horizons, John Clute reviews the translated novels of Czech writer, Michal Ajvaz. These are The Other City (published last year) and The Golden Age, which hit the bookstores in April and is therefore definitely eligible for our awards.
The Golden Age is translated by Andrew Oakland and published by Dalkey Archive Press. It [...]
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March 30, 2010 | Posted by admin Here are a few interesting stories that have turned up in the blogosphere in recent weeks.
- The Independent reviews Best European Fiction 2010, which includes a ghost story by Portugal’s Valter Hugo Mae and a “futuristic tale” by Georgi Gospodinov from Bulgaria.
- Chad W. Post ponders the value of automated translation tools.
- K.E. Semmel reviews [...]
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January 29, 2010 | Posted by admin Continuing his journey through the long list for this year’s mainstream fiction translation award, Chad W. Post has reached Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. The title is definitely promising, and Post mentions in his review that the book could be classified as science fiction, so this is definitely eligible material (although again it [...]
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January 18, 2010 | Posted by admin There is a lot of talk about translation around the blogosphere at the moment. Here are a few items we noticed in recent days.
- Fábio Fernandes talks about working in two languages at Tor.com.
- Charles Tan interviews Nick Mamatas about Haikasoru at World SF News. All of those 2010 publications Nick mentions should be eligible [...]
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January 12, 2010 | Posted by admin The online magazine, Strange Horizons, has published a review of Pierre Pevel’s The Cardinal’s Blades. Their reviewer, author Kari Sperring, reads French and is very familiar with Dumas, having co-written a book about the famous Musketeers. In her review, Ms. Sperring compares the style of Tom Clegg’s English translation of Pevel’s book with the original [...]
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