Albert Camus’s notebooks did not arrive as a single, unified work for English readers. They appeared slowly and unevenly, in separate volumes published across six decades. Each was shaped by the translator who carried it into English and by the…
PEN America has announced the winners of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants 2026, selecting ten translators whose projects will bring new and underrepresented voices into English. Alongside them, the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature has recognised…
David Bellos, the British-born translator, scholar and biographer who became the first translator to share the Man Booker International Prize with an author, has died at his home in Doussard in the French Alps, aged eighty. Widely regarded as one…