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Contributing Editor Ellen Elias-Bursac’s new translation of Love at Last Sight, a novel by Vedrana Rudan, has been published by Dalkey Archive Press. She also spoke on a panel about ‘Translating for Writers at Risk’ at the London Book Fair 2017 and received a Fulbright to teach two courses in translation studies at Zagreb University for the spring semester of 2018.
Contributing Editor George Henson’s new translation of Sergio Pitol’s The Magician of Vienna was published by Deep Vellum on 21 March, 2017.
Editor-at-Large for Slovakia Julia Sherwood’s review of Wiolette Greg’s Swallowing Mercury (Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2017), has been published by the European Literature Network, while her co-translated anthology of Slovak fiction, Into the Spotlight, has been reviewed by Michael Stein in the latest issue of BODY.
Educational Arm Assistant Laura Davies, who is also a writer for Outside in World, spoke alongside Daniel Hahn, Emma Lidbury and Nicky Harman at the London Book Fair 2017 on a panel entitled ‘What’s the Problem with Translated Children’s Books?’
Chief Executive Assistant Theophilus Kwek was interviewed by poet Jennifer Wong in the latest issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. His translations of four poems by Singapore Chinese-language poet Andy Ang also appear in the same issue, and his review of Jane Draycott’s new collection, The Occupant, appears in The Oxford Culture Review.
Editor-at-Large for Indonesia Tiffany Tsao’s translation of Sergius Seeks Bacchus, a collection of poems by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, has been named a winner of the PEN Presents 2017 competition for East and Southeast Asia. Several poems from the collection were first published in Asymptote‘s Winter 2017 Issue.