AUP is all over The Quarterly Conversation

The new – and excellent – edition of The Quarterly Conversation is now out. And it is packed with writing from AUP. As well as the interview with Dan Gunn that we featured a couple of days ago, there are reviews by Mona Reiserer (CL, 2012), now Mona Gainer-Salim, and by Madeleine Larue, who graduated with an Art-History major a few years ago, then from the MA in Cultural Translation in 2012. Mona reviews Sjon’s The Whispering Muse, and Madeleine reviews the new translation of Leskov, by AUP’s own Richard Pevear and his wife and translating partner Larissa Volokhonsky.

The AUP connections don’t quite end there. There is also an interview with Ottelie Mulzet, who translated Cahier 14, Animalinside, by Krazhnahorkai, and who spoke to AUP students last year; and there is a review of the new cahier, Her Not All Her, by Nobel-prize winner Elfride Jellinek.

For those of you that don’t know, the Cahier series, in the publication of which Profs Dan Gunn and Daniel Medin are both involved, is an amazing publishing venture, co-published between AUP and Sylph Editions.

“Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts” Welcomes Submissions of Translated Work!

We thought that some of you might be interested in this call for submissions:

Dear Translators and Editors, As the leading literary journal published in Houston, the city recently named the most diverse in the United States, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts always sought to represent the myriad voices of the region in our journal. Please know that we welcome submissions of translated fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry, especially work translated from languages read and spoken widely in the Gulf region: Spanish; Vietnamese; Hindi; Bengali; Chinese; Tagalog; Korean; Portuguese; French and Spanish-based creole languages?.

If you have literary translations previously unpublished in North America, we hope you’ll send them along via post or through our online submissions manager: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/762329be7a/c42cfdc24c/b7b17690a8/n=5. Please do not email any submissions as attachments. We also hope you’ll share this call for literary translations with your colleagues and students!

Sincerely,  Zachary Martin, Editor

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We have set up a facebook page, to act as a meeting place for interested alumni, current students, and all those who are interested in writing, translating, and reading, and have some relation to AUP.

We know that undergraduates are looking for a place where they can draw on the wisdom of our alumni. It would be great if this page could make that easier.

So if you are on facebook, you might like to like us there too.

Young Writers and Translators Reading at AUP, November 8 at 18:00, in the Grand Salon

You are warmly invited to the Young Writers and Translators Reading at  the American University of Paris (click here for a pdf of the flyer).

This semester’s readers will be Sousan Hammad, Alena Mealy, Jackson Connor, Chloe Rash, and Rachel Nielsen.

JOSHUA KRUCHTEN will provide the introductions.

The event will be held November 8 at 6 p.m. in the Grand Salon, 31  avenue Bosquet (7eme).  Refreshments will be served.

It will be a pleasure to see you at this event – students, alumni, and anyone interested in new writers.

President Celeste Schenck blogs from the launch of the Beckett Letters

Celeste Schenck, member of the department and president of the university, blogged recently about the launch of the second volume of Samuel Beckett’s letters, of which Dan Gunn is one of the editors.

You can see pictures and video of the event here.

Young Writers at AUP Reading, 27 October 2011, Grand Salon, at 18:30

On Thursday 27 October, in the  Grand Salon, 31 Avenue Bosquet, Jeffrey Greene‘s Creative Writing Workshop, along with the department, invite you to hear the work of some young AUP writers.

Readings by: Oona Doyle, Akeena Legall, Harriet Lye, Stephanie Papa, and Kevin Vaughn

There will be wine and snacks – faculty will also be there to speak about the courses in the department next semester.

And the winners of the 2011 Best Translated Book Award are…

Daniel Medin reports on the winners of the 2011 best translated book award:

Steger, The Book of Things

Jansson, The True Deceiver

Interning with Shakespeare

Danielle Savage from the career development office reminds students of the possibility of interning, for example at Shakespeare and company:

The Shakespeare and Co website

Legendary?  Mythical?  Unique? These words don’t begin to do justice to Shakespeare and Company, the bookstore and cultural institution that has been serving the international literary community for over 50 years. Many know it as a place where a used book in English can be picked up for as little as 2 euros seven days a week, but it is also an antiquarian bookseller and unofficial cultural center, hosting dozens of author signings, readings, plays, and other happenings a year, along with a literary festival. A recent Friday evening witnessed a free concert by indie-folk band Moriarty which drew crowds out to beyond the courtyard in front of the store, making it impossible to actually go in and buy a book.

Seneca Philosophus, conference at AUP, 16-17 May 2011

Jula Wildberger draws your attention to a major conference, hosted by AUP with the Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie, with the support of les Amis de Ciceron. The event will be held in the Grand Salon, 31 Avenue Bosquet; it starts at 9:00 on Monday 16 May, and ends at 19:00 on Tuesday 17 May.

Click to see the full program for the conference, with abstracts of all the papers.

Harriet Lye at the launch of Jeffrey Greene’s Golden-Bristled Boar

Harriet Lye introduced Jeffrey Greene at the launch of his new book, The Golden-Bristled Boar (U Virginia Press, 2011) at the Village Voice bookstore on April 12.

Here is what she said: