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Words Without Borders on Deanna Cachoian-Schanz's translation of A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan
November 28, 2023
From Tilted Axis Press | A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan, translated from the Armenian by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz.
Words Without Borders
In Conversation with the 2023 PEN Translates Awards Translators: Deanna Cachoian-Schanz on the Mania of Translation
November 28, 2023
Translator Deanna Cachoian-Schanz was awarded one of the prestigious PEN Translates grants earlier this year for her work on Shushan Avagyan’s Girq-anvernakir: a rich, experimental novel that speaks to repressions, literary legacy, and the expansive collisions between disparate writings, voices, times, and lives.
How Emily Wilson Made Homer Modern
September 11, 2023
See Judith Thurman's article in the New Yorker magazine, September 11, 2023, on how Emily Wilson's "vitally urgent translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey strip away the “tarnish of centuries.” "
Link and audio at:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/emily-wilson-profile
Verses from “Algarabía” by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's
September 11, 2023
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's (COML, PhD) poem appeared in The New York Times magazine, September 11, 2023.
Read it in Spanish and English on link https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/magazine/poem-from-algarabia.html
English PEN’s flagship grant programme PEN Translates awards 13 titles from 12 countries and 9 languages
August 28, 2023
For Armenian PEN Translates award winner:
A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (Armenia), translated from the Eastern Armenian by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz. (Tilted Axis Press.)
See complete list of countries and languages:
Hilah Kohen winner of the REEESNe's Carlos Pascual Prize 2023
July 28, 2023
Hilah Kohen is the 2023 First Prize winner of REEESNe's Carlos Pascual Prize for her paper "From Juhuri to Gĩkũyũ: The Global Circulation of Language Choice in the Soviet Era."
Ariel Resnikiff and Divya Victor publish epistolary collaboration in the Brooklyn Rail
June 25, 2023
Ariel Resnikoff (COML, PhD, 2019) and Divya Victor have an epistolary collaboration out in the June issue of the Brooklyn Rail.
https://brooklynrail.org/2023/06/poetry/Interdiasporic-Frequencies-Divya-Victor-Ariel-Resnikoff
Liz Rose has article published in Transgender Studies Quarterly
June 05, 2023
Liz's article "Trans* Poetics in Translation:
Liz Rose has article published in Transgender Studies Quarterly
June 05, 2023
Liz's article "Trans* Poetics in Translation:
Zain Mian, PhD, Comparative Literature, co-winner of the Stallybrass Prize in the History of Material Texts
April 27, 2023
The Stallybrass Prize is awarded to the best essays in the study of material texts, one by an undergraduate and one by a graduate student. The committee received many excellent essays this year in both categories. The submissions this year demonstrated more than ever the huge range of the study of material texts at Penn.
Graduate category: