The Shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Its a refreshing and I find, inspiring shortlist this year. The final eight also include two translated works. My translation of Ariella Kornmehl’s The butterfly month didn’t make the shortlist but then neither did Coetzee, Llosa, Ondaatje, Lessing, McEwan, Rankin, Winterson…. the list goes [...]
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IMPAC Dublin Literary Award update
Posted in awards and prizes, translation, words, tagged Ariella Kornmehl, butterfly month, IMPAC, literary award, translation on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Review – The butterfly month (Sydney Morning Herald)
Posted in reviews, words, tagged Ariella Kornmehl, Claire Scobie, review, SMH, The butterfly month, translation, words on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Kornmehl captures the cruel reality of life in Johannesburg and paints a poignant and believable friendship’
Review – The butterfly month – (Readings Monthly)
Posted in reviews, translation, words, tagged Ariella Kornmehl, review, Scribe, The butterfly month, translation, words on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Butterfly Month has been released (Scribe Publications) and reviewed. The first, in the August Readings Monthly Newsletter, may be lowkey but is also positive.More than that it even acknowledges the existence of a translator! Miracles will never cease! I popped down to Readings to get my copies of the newsletter and couldn’t resist taking [...]
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the butterfly month by Ariella Kornmehl.
Trans. by Faith Hunter
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