UK edition now available for pre-order – forthcoming from Dialogue Books on July 11, 2024
O Mensch
The Texture of Angel Matter
Excerpt from Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada now out in Granta 165: Deutschland
»Hellseher im Kleinen«: Das Leben Robert Walsers
The German translation of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser is now forthcoming from Suhrkamp Verlag as »Hellseher im Kleinen«: Das Leben Robert Walsers on Jan. 13, 2025 in a translation by Michael Adrian.
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada
Now available for pre-order. Forthcoming from New Directions Publishing on July 2, 2024.
“Alchimistische Transmutation” und andere Geheimnisse der Übersetzung
Antrittsvorlesung (Inaugural Lecture), August Wilhelm von Schlegel Gastprofessur zur Poetik der Übersetzung at Freie Universität Berlin sponsored by Deutscher Übersetzerfonds, lecture hosted by English Theatre Berlin, with introductory remarks by Günther Grosser, Ulrich Blumenbach, and Dr. Susanne Strätling
Interview / rbb kultur
“Der Tag / Heute zu Gast”: Interviewed by Peter Claus (in German) for Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
This Is a Classic
Expanded version of the essay “Translation as Storytelling” now out in This Is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global, edited by Regina Galasso (Bloomsbury)
Honorary Appointment, Freie Universität Berlin
Appointed to the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professorship in the Poetics of Translation at Freie Universität Berlin for the Summer 2023 term
(Clipping from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 9, 2023, p. 12)
Review / Mithu Sanyal, Identitti
“Kali Meets the Twitterati: On Mithu Sanyal’s Identitti” (translated by Alta L. Price), review published in Los Angeles Review of Books
Review / Violent Phenomena
“Harm Reduction in Translation: On Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (ed. Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang)” / “Auf der Suche nach einem gewaltfreien Übersetzen. Zur soeben erschienenen Anthologie Violent Phenomena,” review published in RundUmschau #02 (ToledoTalks) in both English and German.
Review / Andrey Kurkov, Grey Bees
“Glimpses of Peace Only in Dreams: Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees” (translated by Boris Dralyuk), review published in The Rumpus