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SUMMARY:Starting a Lit Mag: The NBCC's Adam Dalva in Conversation with Astra Magazine
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n  \n\nOn Thursday\, November 18th at 8 PM EST\, Adam Dalva will moderate a conversation with the team of a new forthcoming magazine\, Astra Magazine. Editor-in-Chief Nadja Spiegelman (former web editor of the Paris Review)\, Deputy Editor Sam Rutter\, and Poetry Editor Aria Aber will give a behind the scenes look at the work that goes into starting a magazine. They will discuss global literature\, the state of literary criticism\, and discuss what they hope to achieve with Astra Magazine. This is an NBCC members event that will also be open to the public on Zoom.\nRegister for the free Zoom webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eAFZOlwnTv2sKD2Y3Kd9Eg \nNadja Spiegelman is the author of I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This and several award-winning comics for children. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, NewYorker.com\, The Cut and more. The former online editor of The Paris Review\, she is now the editor in chief of Astra Magazine\, a new international literary magazine forthcoming in 2022. \nSamuel Rutter is a writer and translator from Melbourne\, Australia. His work has appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times\, The White Review and The Paris Review\, and he is a regular contributor to ARTNews and T Magazine. He is the Deputy Editor of Astra Magazine \nAria Aber is based in Berkeley\, CA. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry Magazine\, Kenyon Review\, The Poetry Review and elsewhere. She is the author of Hard Damage\, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a Whiting Award. She is currently a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. \nAdam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, and The Paris Review. Adam serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is the Books Editor for Words Without Borders. He teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University. \nPhoto credit for Nadja Spiegelman: Bek Andersen
URL:https://www.bookcritics.org/event/starting-a-lit-mag-the-nbccs-adam-dalva-in-conversation-with-astra-quarterly/
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SUMMARY:The Art of Reviewing Literature in Translation
DESCRIPTION:The National Book Critics Circle is pleased to announce that it will be launching a new prize for work in translation starting with the 2022 publishing year. The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize will honor the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States. \nIn honor of the new prize\, on Sunday\, November 21\, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time the National Book Critics Circle will hold a panel with literary translators and critics\, discussing strategies for book critics reviewing a work in translation. \nRegister for the free Zoom webinar here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xyU7So79Rb-HSquxm4r2Eg \nPanelists include:\nJeremy Tiang is a novelist\, playwright and translator from Chinese. Originally from Singapore\, he lives in New York City. \nEmma Ramadan translates books of all genres from French. She is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize\, the Albertine Prize\, an NEA Fellowship\, and a Fulbright for her work. Her recent translations include Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for Dying\, Kamel Daoud’s Zabor\, or the Psalms\, and Anne Garréta’s In Concrete. \nSamuel Martin is a co-editor of Hopscotch Translation and teaches French at the University of Pennsylvania. He has translated works by several contemporary writers including Jean-Christophe Bailly and Georges Didi-Huberman; his translation of Didi-Huberman’s photo-essay Bark was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and was longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. \nKevin Blankinship is a professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University and a contributing editor at New Lines Magazine. He has written about books and culture for The Atlantic\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Foreign Policy\, and more. His translations from Arabic have appeared in  academic journals as well as ArabLit Quarterly and the Ithra Cultural Center in Saudi Arabia. He tweets as @AmericanMaghreb. \nShelley Frisch’s translations from German\, which include biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche\, Albert Einstein\, Leonardo da Vinci\, Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography)\, and Franz Kafka along with many other works of fiction and nonfiction\, have been awarded numerous translation prizes\, including the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. Her translation of Peter Neumann’s Jena 1800\, for FSG\, will be published in February\, and the following month will see publication\, by Princeton University Press\, of The  Aphorisms of Franz Kafka. \nDiscussion will be moderated Tara Wanda Merrigan\, NBCC board member and chair of the NBCC’s Translation Prize Working Group.
URL:https://www.bookcritics.org/event/the-art-of-reviewing-literature-in-translation/
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