When Franz Kafka’s The Stoker appeared in Czech in 1920, the translation marked a quiet milestone: it was the first time his work crossed into another language. The translator was Milena Jesenská, a young journalist from Prague whose life would…
The National Book Foundation’s 2025 longlist for Translated Literature spans nine languages and ten countries, offering readers an extraordinary glimpse into the global imagination. It includes works originally written in Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and, for…
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,…