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The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series identifies works of cultural and artistic significance previously overlooked by translators and publishers, canonical works of…
Written by Serhiy Zhadan, widely considered to be one of the most important young writers in Ukraine, The Orphanage is a searing novel that…
We are delighted by the news that Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping, has been longlisted…
As we near the publication of Journeying, Claudio Magris’s third book in translation with YUP, it seemed timely to present our readers with a summary…
Presented exclusively by YUP in anticipation of the publication of Adonis’ newest book, Concerto al-Quds, We are delighted to publish a record of world-renowned poet Adonis…
Presented exclusively by YUP in anticipation of the publication of Adonis’ newest book, Concerto al-Quds, We are delighted to publish a record of world-renowned poet Adonis…
Beautifully translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen as part of the Margellos World Republic of Letters, this novel brings Xue’s imaginative vision to bear on the complicated…
Austrian satirist Karl Kraus’s famous Die letzten Tage der Menschheit – or in English The Last Days of Mankind – remains powerfully relevant in its enactment of the…
Patrick Modiano’s Paris – Article by Mark Polizzotti, translator of Suspended Sentences & After the Circus Patrick Modiano’s Paris – the Paris of his…
Cré na Cille or The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain was originally published in 1949, but has only recently become available in English for the first time,…
The Margellos World Republic of Letters brings together canonical works of literature and fiction originally written in languages other than English, that have been…
We had the chance to sit down with prolific translator Marian Schwartz to talk about her latest translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. She touches…
We had the privilege of sitting down to talk with Mark Polizzotti, who, among other things, has recently translated a trio of novellas from…
In 2014, French author Patrick Modiano stepped – uncharacteristically – into the limelight by winning the Nobel Prize in Literature – joining luminaries such…
Notes on Patrick Modiano and Suspended Sentences from the translator, Mark Polizzotti – 2014 At first blush, the qualities suggested by Patrick Modiano’s fictions…