Sant Jordi Festival 2023

The Sant Jordi book festival has been thriving in Barcelona for almost a century. Recently I had the pleasure of taking part in the Chicago offshoot in a conversation with Russian translator Ellen Vayner and Italian and German translator Alta Price, both fellow members of the Third Coast Translator's Collective, at City Lit Books. I also had a great online conversation with Japanese translator Emily Balistrieri about our translations of books by Tomihiko Morimi. Watch the in-person event here and the online event here (around hour 1:38). And check out the wonderful, bountiful offerings of Sant Jordi USA here. I can't think of many other places to find such a rich sampling of literary translators around the world talking about and reading from their work.

Eating Wild Japan...in Japanese!

I am excited to share that Aki Shobo will publish a Japanese version of Eating Wild Japan, translated by Hayato Uesugi, on March 8, 2023!! It has been an honor to work with Uesugi over the past year as he tackled the huge challenge of bringing this work (back) to a Japanese audience. Details here in Japanese: https://www.akishobo.com/book/detail.html?id=1102&st=4

Suzume publication date set

My translation of Suzume, the novel version of Makoto Shinkai's animated film of the same name, will be published on July 18, 2023. The film hits US theaters April 14, but I've always preferred reading the book first!