by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Publishers around the world are reporting booming sales of "The Plague" (La Peste), an allegorical tale set in a town at the mercy of an epidemic, written by French Nobel prize writer Albert Camus in 1947. Penguin is rushing through a ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In 1983 Italian academic, historian, semiologist, journalist and author Umberto Eco published his first novel, Il nome della rosa (The name of the rose). The book became a literary event almost overnight and was on the best-seller list practically everywhere ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The French film Les traducteurs (The Translators) premiered last year in November at the French Film Festival in Prague. The plot follows a group of nine talented polyglots charged with translating the third installment of a fictitious Daedalus trilogy, a ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Neologisms related to the coronavirus pandemic are spreading so fast that it is hard to keep up and our article on this topic of March 25 is already out of date! We have picked up some new terms here and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "Multiples", is an anthology of multiple translations edited by world-acclaimed British novelist Adam Thirlwell and published in 2013. Thirlwell chose 12 stories, written in Danish, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, German, Arabic, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Italian, Hungarian and English, and asked the sixty-one ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), was a writer, journalist, art critic, art dealer and publisher who "shook up the world of literature" in the early 1900s by inventing a new literary genre: the "news in three lines." (1) Fénéon was employed by ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "It is sometimes said that in order to convey atmosphere a translation must be redone for each generation". Is this really the case? asks author and journalist Sara Wheeler in a recent article for Literary Hub. (1) Wheeler ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Nobel prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk has been a bestselling author in Poland for three decades. In a recent interview for "The Guardian" she says she wonders how her life would have worked out if her books had been ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A new translation of the internationally acclaimed anti-totalitarian novel "Darkness at Noon" will allow the English reading public to read it for the first time as Arthur Koestler wrote it. A recent article in for "The Literary Hub" recounts ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In an article for the NYR Daily, author/translator Tim Parks explores what he calls a "perplexing" dilemma. Most readers are only familiar with texts translated in their own languages, and if they enjoy the translation they will rightly thank ... Read more >