Ramon Glazov Interview on Weird Fiction Review
Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed translator Ramon Glazov about his recent project, the Italian spec fic novel The Twenty Days of Turin. Read the interview here.
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A Conversation With Andrzej Sapkowski and Dmitry Glukhovsky
Over at Waypoint, Piotr Badja spoke to two eastern European fantasy authors about the connections between their novels and other media: “Witcher novelist Andrzej Sapkowski says he doesn’t owe games anything, but Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky thinks games made them both.” Read the conversation here.
An Interview with Chen Qiufan
Over at the Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Center at the Ohio State University, Sun Mengtian interviewed acclaimed Chinese SF writer Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan): check it out!
The Best Translated Book Award Longlist
This year’s Best Translated Book Award longlist includes four works of speculative fiction in translation! Here’s the entire list: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, from Melville House Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky, from New
My Essay on SFT at Samovar Magazine
Samovar Magazine published a piece I wrote on why I started this website and why SFT is important: check it out!
Samovar Magazine’s Inaugural Issue
Samovar Magazine‘s inaugural issue is out now, featuring speculative fiction (translated from Finnish, Hebrew, and Arabic), poetry (translated from Chinese), and reviews! Check it out!!
Upcoming Polish, Czech, and Russian SF in Translation
Lots of news came out this week regarding central and eastern European speculative fiction in English translation… keep ’em comin’ ! The publisher Head of Zeus has acquired World English rights to Polish author Jacek Dukaj’s thousand-page-long novel Ice. The book “conjur[es] an alternate 20th Century, where Russia and half of Europe are
Kurodahan Press to Publish a New Collection by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Kurodahan is publishing “a new collection of stories by Yasutaka Tsutsui, famed in Japan and worldwide for his darkly humorous, satirical handling of a vast range of themes central to the human condition.” Bullseye! by Yasutaka Tsutsui, translated by Andrew Driver Look for it this summer/fall! Other books by Yasutaka Tsutsui in English:
It’s Translations Month on StarShipSofa
Great news from StarShipSofa: “We’re back with another Translations Month Special, bringing you more stories all over the world, originally written in a non-English language. We only have three stories this time, but they’re all excellent, diverse pieces of fiction. Originally written in Swedish, Hebrew and Czech, they’re now been converted to English and into
Ahmed Khaled Towfik on the Dissemination of Arabic Science Fiction
Check out this article on this year’s Emirates Lit Fest about Arabic sf and what Egyptian writer Ahmen Khaled Towfik says about the genre’s place in Arab culture.
