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Absinthe: New European Writing

http://www.absinthenew.com

A print journal that transports Americans to Europe (in a literary way) by bringing the Continent to the United States in the form of contemporary poetry, prose, essays, interviews, reviews, graphics and author photos.

booklit

http://booklit.com/blog/

Stewart McAbney of World Literature Forum and GoodReads writes about contemporary, world and classic fiction, with the odd bit of non-fiction thrown in.

Dalkey Archive Press at the University of Illinois

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com

Dalkey maintains a formidable list while publishing The Review of Contemporary Fiction and CONTEXT. The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly in book format with a taste for the innovative and an international slant. CONTEXT is a newspaper style tri-quarterly that creates an international/historical context for reading modern and contemporary literature.

eXchanges blog

http://exchangesjournal.wordpress.com

eXchanges is the blog of the University of Iowa’s journal of literary translation

Exquisite Corpse

http://www.corpse.org

An online literary journal of virtual rubber and light with a stubborn aesthetic that cops to all things cool.

INTranslation

http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org

INTranslation, a project of The Brooklyn Rail, serves readers by exposing them to writers from around the world while it aids translators by making samples of their work accessible to those who may wish to publish it. Featured translations are accompanied by biographies of the original author and the translator, and contributor contact information is included with
permission. All previously featured work is available in a full-text archive.

Guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Keeping an eye on world literature, the Guardian online features news, sport, comment, etc. plus culture>books, and literary blogs.

LabforCulture.org

http://www.labforculture.org/

LabforCulture.org is an online platform for European arts and culture, with edited information in five languages and a growing social networking space covering content that crosses physical, cultural and imaginative borders. LabforCulture.org is a partnership initiative of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam.

Panorama Kultur - The Europe Less Known

http://www.pk.org.pl/

Polish web magazine about life and culture in Central-Eastern Europe. English language option. Online since 2003.

ScrittoriRomeni

http://scrittoriromeni.it

Maggio 2009 - Nasce ScrittoriRomeni.it, il portale dedicato agli autori romeni contemporanei. Con questo progetto Anita Bernacchia e Maria Luisa Lombardo, traduttrici OTP, intendono dare una visibilità italiana ad alcuni tra i maggiori scrittori romeni contemporanei, tuttora non tradotti nel nostro Paese.

Per ogni autore si propone un profilo biografico, una sinossi delle opere presentate, brani tradotti in italiano e ricezione critica dell'autore in Romania e all'estero.

Una sezione particolare è dedicata ai volumi antologici di stampo narrativo e memorialistico, che offrono un quadro storico e sociale della Romania di ieri e di oggi.

The Complete Review

http://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html

A book lover’s whole world catalog, the Complete Reviewis “a electively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey” of new books, old books and everything in between. The site includes links to international literary sites, book review sites, literary weblogs, general literary sites and publishers.

three percent

http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/

a key destination for readers, editors and translators interested in finding out about modern and contemporary international literature. The site provides information about goings-on in the world of international literature, it publishes reviews and fragments of books in translation, it offers samples of books worthy of full-length translation and it hosts a terrific books-translated-into-English prize.

Transcript: the European internet review of books and writing

http://www.transcript-review.org

a bi-monthly review of writing from around Europe, Transcript promotes quality written in languages of smaller circulation via English, French and German translation. Transcript is published by Literature Across Frontiers, the European programme for literary exchange and policy debate, with the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union.

Twisted Spoon Press

http://www.Traktor.cz/twisted/

A Prague-based independent publisher dedicated to English translation of writing from Central and Eastern Europe, Twisted Spoon features a terrific list and provides a set of really useful links.

Words Without Borders

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org

a translation leader on line and in print, Words Without Borders opens doors to international exchange through translation, publication and promotion of the world’s best writing.

About this issue

This July, The Observer Translation Project leaves its usual format to present a special CRISIS ISSUE. Things are tough all over. Hard Times suddenly feels like the book of the moment. The global economic crisis impacts life as we know it, and viewed from Bucharest the effects reverberate in domains that include geo-politics and publishing in Romania and abroad, with the crisis at The Observer Translation Project as an instance of a universal phenomenon. read more...

Translator's Choice

Author: Stelian Tănase
Translated by: Jean Harris

From Maestro: A Melodrama. Episode 7

Emiluţa has an unfortunate thought. She’ll throw herself off the top of the building. Why? What the fuck? Let’s say for the cause of PeaceonEarth, for the slumdogs, Europe, for the lonely. Which is to say she doesn’t have a ghost of a reason. Viva Walachia! The way things stand, if ...

Translator’s Note
Translator’s Note: a synopsis

Author: Ştefan Agopian
Translated by: Ileana Orlich

How I Learned to Read (from Tache de Catifea / The Velvet Man)

The bearded man was the owner of an apothecary shop where he worked with two apprentices. Nobody paid me any mind, so I spent all day in what was supposed to be the shop. I say this because it was a large, dark room full of odors—a mix of smells from everywhere. The room hadn’t been cleaned ...

Translator’s Note
Re: Learning to Read, from Tache de catifea / The Velvet Man

Author: Gabriela Adameşteanu
Translated by: Patrick Camiller

Wasted Morning - Napoleon in Bucharest

“What you’ve got here is heaven on earth,” Vica says as she drops onto the kitchen chair. “But where’s your mother?” “At work,” Gelu lazily replies, leaning sideways against the door. “She’s doing mornings this week, didn’t you know?” He is tall and thin, with unset ...

Author: Petre Ispirescu
Translated by: Jean Harris

Youth Without Age and Life Without Death

It happened once as never before-y, ‘cause if it couldn’t be true, it wouldn’t make a story about the time when the poplar tree made berries and the willow tree broke out in cherries, when bears began to brawl with their tails, and wolf and lamb, unfurling their sails, threw arms around each ...

Translator’s Note
On Petre Ispirescu