New Kiswahili science fiction award charts a path for African languages theconversation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theconversation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘অ্যাট নাইট অল ব্লাড ইজ ব্ল্যাক’ পেলো ইন্টারন্যাশনাল বুকার প্রাইজ
এ বছর ‘ইন্টারনাশনাল বুকার প্রাইজ ২০২১’ পেয়েছে ফরাসি লেখক ডেভিড ডিওপ-এর দ্বিতীয় উপন্যাস ‘ফের দাম’-এর ইংরেজি অনুবাদ ‘অ্যাট নাইট অল ব্লাড ইজ ব্ল্যাক’।
ডিওপের প্রপিতামহের প্রথম বিশ্বযুদ্ধের অভিজ্ঞতা নিয়ে লেখা উপন্যাসটি ফরাসি থেকে ইংরেজিতে অনুবাদ করেছেন আনা মশোভাকিচ। বইটি প্রকাশ করেছে পুশকিন প্রেস। গতকাল এই
David Diop wins International Booker Prize with WWI story thompsoncitizen.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thompsoncitizen.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World (July): POLAND!
Heyyy guys, another month, another reading challenge! This time, we re getting to know Poland, so pick a book that has been written by a Polish author or is about the country to participate!
Poland has a very long and interesting (often also extremely tragic) history. You can learn more about the country here, or just dive right into the books if you prefer. Here are 10 hand-picked suggestions, but as always you are free to choose something else.
Swallowing Mercury (Wioletta Greg)
OP note: YA short stories; historical fiction (Communist Poland). Nominated for a bunch of literary prizes and longlisted for the International Booker Prize!
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ID A MISTAKEN translation put rovers on Mars? In 1877 Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer, used his then state-of-the-art telescope to view and describe what he called “
canali” on the planet. English translators leapt on the discovery of what they rendered as “canals”. There followed a frenzy of speculation that Mars might be inhabited, which left a deep mark on the human imagination. To this day “Martian” is a synonym for alien life.
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But the Italian word could also have been translated as “channels”. Which did Schiaparelli mean? In some writings he was careful to discourage firm conclusions about life on Mars; in others, he encouraged exactly those conclusions. It is almost as though