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Meet the Iraqi writer who left his home to find lost love in Seattle Mortada Gzar tells his story filled with heart, heartache and humor in his new memoir, "I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?" #newdaynw Author: Danielle Pascual, New Day Northwest Published: 10:00 AM PDT April 29, 2021 Updated: 12:17 PM PDT April 29, 2021 SEATTLE — Before coming to the U.S., award-winning writer and filmmaker Mortada Gzar spent his childhood in war-zone Iraq. Now, he's sharing his incredible life story in a new memoir, "I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?". It chronicl...

International Booker Prize Announces Its 2021 Shortlist Of the six authors shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, four are published in English for the first time. Image: Booker Foundation Hughes-Hallett: ‘So Many Different Modes’ You may notice collisions of news from major publishing and book awards at the moment. It’s one of those times of the year when the winners’ announcements, shortlists, longlists, and jury roll-outs all run into each other like tightly smiling competitive guests at a cocktail party, everyone jostling for attention. And in a news conference prior...

Books ready for free download this year include today’s release of Keiichiro Hirano’s bestseller in Tokyo, ‘At the End of the Matinee.’ ‘This Complex Diversity’ The author of At the End of the Matinee leans in and sports a slightly impish smile when he hears a question he likes to answer. Better in English than he gives himself credit for being, Keiichiro Hirano, has heard the phrase “language of relationships” in an interview with Publishing Perspectives from his home in Japan. He’s being asked through interpreter Beth Cary about the modulating personalities in his books�...

Many Elections Ago: The First Translation from Amazon Crossing The first Amazon Crossing translation was released exactly 10 years ago today. Born into a political season, the imprint keeps widening its own campaign for international literature in a political world. Gabriella Page-Fort in Seattle. Image: Galen Maynard Page-Fort: ‘Just by Saying Yes’ Unlike today, November 2 ten years ago was a Tuesday. But like today, it was a day highly charged with political energy. On that Tuesday in 2010, the United States midterm elections would end the Democratic Party’s control of the country’s...

Translators in the UK Call for Racial Equality in Literary Translation The UK’s Translators Association issues a statement on debates about who should translate whom–and ‘institutional barriers.’ Londoners at Kings Cross’ Granary Square on April 2, amid pandemic restrictions’ easings in the United Kingdom. Image – iStockphoto: VV Shots There are several prompts to this newly enunciated stance, and we’ll talk through them to help explicate the issues. Briefly, the translators are writing to two points deeply important to workers across all the creative industries, fully inclusi...