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11 - 13 November 2024

11 November: Emmanuel Carrère profile | Jürgen Becker (1932-2024)
12 November: AI and translation | 'Globalizing' Korean literature
13 November: Booker Prize | Grand prix de littérature américaine

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       Booker Prize

       They've announced the winner of this year's Booker Prize, the leading English-language novel prize, and it is Orbital, by Samantha Harvey.

       I've been curious about this one, but I haven't seen it yet; meanwhile, see the publicity pages from Vintage and Grove Press, or get your copy at Amazon.com, Bookshop.org, or Amazon.co.uk.

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       Grand prix de littérature américaine

       Should we leave it up to the French to chose the best American novel ? In case you want to, they've now decided to award this year's Grand prix de littérature américaine to the French translation of Wellness, by Nathan Hill; see, for example, the Livres Hebdo report.

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       AI and translation

       Another article finding ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators ? -- this one by Keza MacDonald at The Guardian.
       MacDonald does suggest that: "There are however some scenarios in which machine translation could arguably help the creators of cultural works" ..... Ah, the slippery slope .....

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       'Globalizing' Korean literature

       Grabbing the moment and the momentum, New LTI Korea president aims to globalize Korean literature following Han Hang's Nobel win, as Lee Gyu-lee reports in The Korea Times; among the ambitions: Literature Translation Institute aims to establish graduate school for translation, as reported in The Dong-a Ilbo.
       LTI Korea's Chon Soo-yong is quoted:

To maintain this momentum, we must cultivate discourses on Korean literature abroad while establishing graduate schools of translation to nurture high-quality Korean literary translators,” the president said during a press conference in Seoul, Monday, marking 100 days since her appointment.
     “With the mindset that the Nobel Prize is the beginning, not the end, we will lay the groundwork for establishing Korean literature as a new pillar of world literature.”

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       Emmanuel Carrère profile

       At The Guardian Mark O'Connell has a profile of the author, in ‘Why do I have an interest in such horrible things?’: Emmanuel Carrère on the Paris terror attacks trial.
       Carrère's V13 is now out in English -- see the publicity pages from Fern Press and Farrar, Straus and Giroux -- but, while quite a few of his works are under review at the complete review (e.g. 97,196 Words), I think I'll give this one a pass.

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       Jürgen Becker (1932-2024)

       German poet Jürgen Becker has passed away; see, for example, Zum Tod von Jürgen Becker – Was man verschieben kann und was nicht by Martin Oehlen in the Frankfurter Rundschau.
       Becker won may of the leading German literary prizes, culminating in the Georg-Büchner-Preis 2014. Not much of his work has been translated into English, but see the Suhrkamp foreign rights page for an overview of his work.
       Among the works that have been translated is The Sea in the Radio, out from Seagull; see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com, Bookshop.org, or Amazon.co.uk

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