Translation as a Collaborative Mode: An Interview with Sarah Booker
Sarah Booker
I met Sarah Booker virtually in 2018 when she spoke with a graduate student reading group about translating Cristina Rivera Garza s
The Iliac Crest. During her virtual visit, Booker was gracious enough to talk with us about her translation process, and I have kept an eye on her work ever since. In this interview, conducted over email, Booker tells WWB about what drew her to translation work, her praxis, and her vision for translation in public life.
Alex Aguayo (AA): Good morning, Sarah. To begin, could you tell me a little bit about yourself and how you became interested in literature and translation? What has your training been like?
One of the latest projects of Virginia's poet laureate, Luisa Igloria, is a Sunday evening reading and open mic hosted at The Muse: "Poems for Our Living and Breathing."
The annual presentation of PEN America’s literary awards and career achievement honors was produced digitally for a second year.
A collage of some 55 finalists in the PEN America 2021 Literary Awards program. Image: PEN America
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In our previews of the PEN America Literary Award finalists and the program’s Career Achievement Prize recipients,
Publishing Perspectives readers looked at one of the more complex annual presentations of a broad range of disparate awards.
Funded by many generous donors and presented on varying schedules, the program carries a combined value of more than US$380,000 in prize money and these awards carry the luster of PEN’s humanitarian stance when conferred on an author’s work.
Gay, Wang, Ehrenreich, Hartman Win at 2021 PEN Lit Awards By Calvin Reid | Apr 08, 2021
The PEN Literary Awards, presented this year in a virtual ceremony, awarded poet Ross Gay the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for
Be Holding: A Poem (University of Pittsburgh), a book-length lyrical tribute to the great basketball player Julius Erving and much more. Michael X. Wang’s
Further News of Defeat: Stories won the $25,000 PEN/Bingham Short Story Prize, and Barbara Ehrenreich won the $15,000 PEN/Essay Award for her career-spanning collection
In addition, Saidiya Hartman was awarded the $10,000 PEN/Galbraith Nonfiction Award for
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, a groundbreaking history of radical queer black women (Norton). Jonathan Slaght won the $10,000 PEN/Wilson Science Writing Award for
Winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Announced
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The winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards were announced in their first-ever online ceremony since the Awards began 57 years ago. It was hosted by Kara Young and featured many guest appearances, including Whoopi Goldberg and Viola Davis. In total, $380,000 in prizes were awarded to a diverse range of writers, translators, poets, editors, journalists, and others. Although they were not able to host the usual festivities, the online ceremony is available to watch in its entirety on Youtube!