{"id":303146,"date":"2015-12-16T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/12\/16\/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-of-2015\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:27","slug":"world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/12\/16\/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2015""},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, to celebrate #TranslationTuesday (which is only slightly less popular than #TacoTuesday and #2DayIsCatDayEveryDayIsCatDay), World Literature Today<\/em> announced their fourth annual list of 75 Notable Translations.<\/a> <\/p>\n

I’m not going to reprint the whole list here—click above to see the full list—but I do have a few general comments. <\/p>\n

First off, the list is pretty great. As you’ll see in a few minutes, I have some thoughts about year-end lists and am going to be running approximately a billion over the next couple weeks. That said, if you’re looking for an overview of a ton of great translations, this is, hands down, the best place to start. <\/p>\n

On a selfish note, Open Letter has SIX<\/span> titles on this list:<\/p>\n

Naja Marie Aidt, Rock, Paper, Scissors<\/em>,<\/a> K. E. Semmel, tr. <\/p>\n

Hubert Haddad, Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters<\/em>,<\/a> Jennifer Grotz, tr.<\/p>\n

Gail Hareven, Lies, First Person<\/em>,<\/a> Dalya Bilu, tr. <\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9s Neuman, The Things We Don\u2019t Do<\/em>,<\/a> Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, tr. <\/p>\n

Merc\u00e8 Rodoreda, War, So Much War<\/em>,<\/a> Maruxa Rela\u00f1o & Martha Tennent, tr. <\/p>\n

Antoine Volodine, Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven<\/em>,<\/a> J. T. Mahany, tr. <\/p>\n

Deep Vellum also has six titles on the list, and New Directions ranks third with four books. (These three presses make up 21% of the total list. And I’ll never burn out on seeing something like that given how Penguin Random House and HarperCollins make up like 85% of all other year-end lists.) <\/p>\n

University Presses are also strongly represented on this list. Led by Michigan State University Press (my alma mater! whose football team better beat ‘Bama like a god damn drum on New Year’s Eve) with three titles, university presses have eleven books on the list. (A solid 15% of the total.) <\/p>\n

Again, you can find the whole list here,<\/a> and to give you a bit of a taste, here are five books on here that I personally haven’t read, but definitely want to and am using this as a prompt to move them up my “to read” list:<\/p>\n

Blai Bonet, The Sea<\/em>,<\/a> Maruxa Rela\u00f1o & Martha Tennent, tr. (Dalkey Archive)<\/p>\n

Horacio Castellanos Moya, The Dream of My Return<\/em>,<\/a> Katherine Silver, tr. (New Directions)<\/p>\n

Boubacar Boris Diop, The Knight and His Shadow<\/em>,<\/a> Alan Furness, tr. (Michigan State University Press)<\/p>\n

Wolfgang Hilbig, The Sleep of the Righteous<\/em>,<\/a> Isabel Fargo Cole, tr. (Two Lines Press)<\/p>\n

Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English<\/em>,<\/a> Mari Yoshihara & Juliet Winters Carpenter, tr. (Columbia University Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, to celebrate #TranslationTuesday (which is only slightly less popular than #TacoTuesday and #2DayIsCatDayEveryDayIsCatDay), World Literature Today announced their fourth annual list of 75 Notable Translations. I’m not going to reprint the whole list here—click above to see the full list—but I do have a few general comments. First off, the list is pretty great. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[63346,466],"class_list":["post-303146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-75-notable-translations-of-2015","tag-world-literature-today"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333496,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303146\/revisions\/333496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}