Three remarkable, haunting books by Eva Menasse, Mai Ishizawa and Iman Mersal in excellent translations by @cctranslates.bsky.social, @robinmoger.bsky.social and Polly Barton @theartsfuse.bsky.social artsfuse.org/322345/trans...

I’m thrilled that NEVERMORE is in such great company on the shortlist for the inaugural John Calder Award. @seagullbooks.bsky.social

It's an honor to be in such good company on the Helen & Kurt Wolff prize shortlist. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...

I'm delighted to be speaking with Christine Smallwood and Cécile Wajsbrot about Virginia Woolf, fiction, translation and recuperation Community Bookstore on Tuesday 22nd at 7 pm www.communitybookstore.net/events/20250...

Art as a threshold through Agamben’s eyes up at The Arts Fuse

Slightly stretching the bounds of 'bimonthly', my second Translation Spotlight is up @theartsfuse.bsky.social with a three-book look at a mind at work and play. artsfuse.org/308676/trans...

@roughghosts.bsky.social dives into Woolf's 'ghostly corridor' of Time Passes with Cécile Wajsbrot. Here's his haunting reading of NEVERMORE.

Another fascinating interview by @ajbwells.bsky.social

In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment

Thrilled to announce that we have not just one but two books longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize! Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!

Thrilled that my translation of Lutz Seiler's STAR 111 has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award! Congrats to all the authors and translators on this fabulous list. dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/... @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @andotherstories.bsky.social

"Star 111 is a rich and strange novel of Germany’s change." Lutz Seiler's Star 111, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social, was insightfully reviewed by Tom Connolly at ArtsFuse. If you have any interest in the Wenderoman, or just great literature, pick up Star 111. artsfuse.org/302644/book-...

I wrote about some reading highlights of 2024 for @theartsfuse.bsky.social including Dana Gioia, Becca Rothfeld, Edwin Frank, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, and Mark Haber artsfuse.org/303084/arts-...

"These days, it’s hard to envision what [Lutz] Seiler’s translator, Tess Lewis, calls 'the heady atmosphere of hope and disorientation' that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Luckily, Seiler’s STAR 111 brings it all vividly back." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

Lutz Seiler STAR 111 on Best Historical Fiction of 2024. An autobiographical picaresque that reconstructs the exhilarating yet often terrifying experiences of individual East Germans in that brief period between the collapse of the Communist regime and reunification. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

A fascinating deep dive into Lutz Seiler's work by @ajbwells.bsky.social

A piece by @tesslewis.bsky.social on Bloomsbury's new 'Translated By' series www.toledo-programm.de/talks/7433/t...

It is an excellent list--as are the other SoA translation prize shortlists. A great end of year reading guide!

The wanderer doesn't just wander, he carries that comprehension that grows with understanding over the borders that our time is so bitterly reliant on. Lutz Seiler Star 111 Tr. @tesslewis.bsky.social