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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 congressional balance, the Republican Party prevailing in the House of Representatives, but not the Senate. Barack Obama was concluding his first two years in the White House. Economics and health care were key issues. The Affordable Care Act had been passed the previous March.
UI offers diversity fellowship in its literary translation program but only one student has accepted
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks at the inauguration of President Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS) By Sindya Bhanoo, Washington Post
Aron Aji, a literary translator and professor at the University of Iowa, runs a Facebook group called Literary Translation with more than 4,300 members from 99 countries. For the most part, the group is an active, amiable one where linguaphiles help one another with translator minutia. A post, for instance, asking for the English equivalent of the French word “banlieusard” yielded 177 responses. (There was no real consensus, but suggestions included “the hood,” “projects” and “ghetto.”)
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The Ardent Swarm
February 8, 2021
“Are you seeing this?!” My 65-year-old Tunisian father was worked up, in a good way. It was January 2011: he was in Washington, DC, and I was in Lyon, France, and the Arab Spring was about to erupt. In the background, I could hear his television, like mine, streaming images of Tunisians swarming the streets to protest the corrupt regime of longtime President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. In power for twenty-three years, his portrait omnipresent on city billboards and living room walls, Ben Ali’s ouster would prove monumental even beyond Tunisia.