Some Translation Links

Here are a few translation-related stories from around the blogosphere from the past few weeks:

– Jeff VanderMeer interviews Czech novelist and poet Michael Ajvaz;

– Concatenation lists Unseen Mainland European SF Classics;

– Nick Mamatas at Haikasoru blogs about one of their new releases: The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto;

– Feng Zhang writes about a famous Chinese fanzine, Xin Huan Jie (New Realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction);

– Chad W. Post reviews Edie Grossman’s Why Translation Matters;

– Tim Parks tells The Guardian why translators deserve to be noticed;

– Edward Gauvin suggests that translating might be a bit like writing science fiction.