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We’re pleased to welcome Adam Dalva as the new books editor of Words Without Borders. Adam’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Paris Review. His graphic novel, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. Adam serves on
Last night, Naveen Kishore, the founder and publisher of Seagull Books, received the 2021 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. At the celebratory cocktail reception in New York, Jeff Deutsch, the director of Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, accepted the Ottaway
The premier event of Bologna Children's Book Fair includes the debut of the International Publishers Association's 125th-anniversary video.
The Pittsburgh International Literary Festival, known as “LitFest,” hopes to get people talking through reading. Hosted by the City of Asylum @ Alphabet City based on Pittsburgh’s North Side, the virtual event will feature authors from all over the world discussing topics that encompass Black, Indigenous and all people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and the politics of publishing. Abby Lembersky, director of programs for City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, said planning’s been underway since January. This isn’t the only online happening but it is the first 10-day festival the organiza...
Book Description City Lights Books, United States, 2001. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: Spanish. Brand new Book. The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and siguiriyas, Lorca captures the passionate flamenco cosmos of Andalusia's Gypsies, "those mysterious wandering folk who gave deep song its definitive form." Cante jondo, deep song, comes from a musical tradition that developed amon...