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Thu Nov 7th, 2002 at 14:49:34 GMT
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Schism with Scliar?
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Here is the story of the Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, who is sore about the way Yann Martel is getting all the prestige Life of Pi. Martel was significantly inspired by Scliar's "idea" -- sharing a lifeboat with a wild cat, after a shipreck -- as published in Max and the Cats.
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Thu Nov 7th, 2002 at 14:32:15 GMT
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Translating the words of Nazis
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This article (from the Daily Hampshire Gazette) is about Henry Lea, the translator for the Nuremberg Trials. By the way, it mentions that
Lea will travel to Frankfurt, Germany on Nov. 13 to deliver a talk at the University of Frankfurt's symposium on German writers who have written about Nazi trials. He will discuss the work of Wolfgang Hildesheimer, a famous German novelist who was one of Lea's fellow translators at the trial.
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Thu Nov 7th, 2002 at 13:55:28 GMT
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Korean Buddhism of Wonhyo to be translated
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All that can be found of this 7th century Korean writing is nearly finished being translated into english, according to tomorrow's news today, Wonhyo's Works to Be Published in English
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raybabel
Fri Nov 1st, 2002 at 14:38:38 GMT
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The Triumph of Globbish
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Don't step on that bug!
It may be an endangered species! And it would be a sadissimo world without all those delightfully different species, a hundred singing birds that hop around the trees and are different in every land you visit.
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Fri Nov 1st, 2002 at 14:14:29 GMT
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The New Yiddish Library
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Today's news announces Yiddish Classics To Appear In English, about the New Yiddish Library with a few hundred thousand dollars to spend translating and publishing poetry, prose, drama, autobiography, memoir and fiction.
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Fri Nov 1st, 2002 at 12:16:12 GMT
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Nobel's pricy prize
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Last month Imre Kertesz from Hungary won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
First awarded in 1901, the prize has honored 95 writers including 72 who use a language other than English.
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andre
Fri Nov 1st, 2002 at 10:41:50 GMT
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hans henny jahn?
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trying to find a copy of The Ship
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