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What’s New with the Asymptote team

This month, catch Asymptote's editor-in-chief at the London Book Fair and at SUTD's Translation Symposium!

Senior Editor (Chinese) Chenxin Jiang spoke on the panel “I’m Not Dead Yet: Translating Living Authors” with Jason Grunebaum, Anna Rosenwong, and Cole Swensen, at AWP in Los Angeles. An excerpt of her translation of Ji Xianlin’s The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution was featured in The Atlantic.

Assistant Editor K. T. Billey‘s translations of Icelandic poet Bragi Ólafsson have been published in Circumference. Her poetry collection “Vulgar Mechanics” is a finalist for Lincoln Center Fordham’s Poets Out Loud publication prize. Her poem “Self-Portrait, Skull & Ornament” has been shortlisted for Arc Magazine‘s Poem of the Year—vote on the Reader’s Choice Awards here! Her poetry will also be featured in the inaugural Brooklyn Poet’s Anthology forthcoming from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2017.

From 30 December to 4 April, Editor-at-Large for Slovakia Julia Sherwood accompanied Polish writer Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki on a US reading tour with his novella Lullaby for a Hanged Man (translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood and published by Calypso Editions in December 2015). The tour included events at the Word bookstore in Brooklyn, Boston University and UNC Chapel Hill. Next week, on April 12, Julia will be speaking at the London Book Fair on a panel entitled “Non-native Translation: Is It Time to Rethink Where Good Translations Come From?”

Also participating in a London Book Fair panel is Editor-in-Chief Lee Yew Leong, who will talk about “Discovering Stories in Turkey, Asia and Africa” on April 13, and then about “The Politics of Translation” at Singapore University of Technology and Design’s Translation Symposium on April  21.

Romania & Moldova Editor-at-Large MARGENTO saw to the publication in Romanian translation of Ryan Mihaly’s interview with Richard Zenith from our October 2015 issue in Asymptote’s new Romanian partner journal, Observator Cultural.  Also in Romania, after an informal interview with MARGENTO, poet and editor Violeta Savu published in the literary magazine Ateneu a presentation of Asymptote covering the Romanian writers featured so far in our journal and also reviewing our latest issue, a contribution also made available online on the writer’s blog.

New Executive Assistant Theophilus Kwek’s third collection of poetry, Giving Ground, was launched in Singapore by Ethos Books. His review of Seamus Heaney’s new translation of Aeneid VI was published in the Oxford Culture Review, and three of his poems were featured in Coldnoon, the international journal of travel writing.

Last month, Indonesia Editor-at-Large Tiffany Tsao published an essay on Eka Kurniawan’s novels Man Tiger and Beauty is a Wound in the Sydney Review of Books .

What’s New with the Asymptote Team

We've been keeping busy!

Hungary editor-at-large Ágnes Orzóy wrote a review on János Térey’s book Átkelés Budapesten for World Literature Today. She also wrote two blog entries for Literaturhaus Europa on migrants in Hungarian literature, emigrants and immigrants. Ágnes was recently a guest at the Balassi Institute in Bucharest where she talked about the reception of Eastern European literature in English.

Assistant editor Alexis Almeida‘s chapbook, Half-Shine, was accepted for publication at Dancing Girl Press. It will be out in the fall/winter of 2016. Also, her translation of Florencia Castellano’s Propiedades vigiladas / Monitored Properties will be out with Ugly Duckling Presse around the same time.

Brazil editor-at-large Bruna Lobato‘s essay of Juan Goytisolo’s Count Julian appeared in The Millions and her translations into Portuguese of two poems by Pulitzer winner Tracy K. Smith is forthcoming in the next issue of Jornal Rascunho, the literary supplement of Brazilian daily newspaper Gazeta do Povo.

Assistant editor Chris Schaefer had his essay “Who Killed Matoub Lounes?” published in the November 2015 issue of World Literature Today. The essay is about the controversial Kabyle singer who was assassinated in 1998.

Assistant editor Julia Leverone‘s translation of the poem “Body of Crime,” originally by the Argentine Paco Urondo, was recently nominated for The Pushcart Prize by The Brooklyn Rail, which published seven of her translations in May this year.

This week, editor-in-chief Lee Yew Leong introduced Frances Riddle’s translation of Mario Levrero’s “The Abandoned House” for Electric Literature‘s Recommended Reading.

Iran editor-at-large, Poupeh Missaghi, published a piece entitled, “Insects Are Food for Thought,” in Issue 59 of Volta.