Deep Vellum will bring Iranian novelist and musician Reza Ghassemi’s debut work Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime to English readers for the first time, marking an important moment for Persian literature in translation. Translated by scholar and translator Michelle Quay,…
The first English translation of Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies appeared in 1978, when James R. Abrams tried to capture Nosaka’s long, stream-of-consciousness sentences and the local Kobe dialect. More than forty years later, translator Ginny Tapley Takemori has…
Mizuki Tsujimura is one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary authors, with over forty books and several film adaptations. Translator Yuki Tejima has now brought her bestselling novel Tsunagu into English as Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon. This article…