The Puritan Launches Literature in Translation Fall 2018 Supplement

Dear Readers, On this crisp October morning, we are pleased to announce that our second supplementary issue of 2018, Literature in Translation, has now launched! In his introduction, guest editor Derick Mattern notes, “When two languages meet, a conversation begins. All the more so when multiple languages come together.” This supplement converses across eight languages, and asks us to “listen and engage,” to “do the work of gleaning the politics happening on in the background, to take some small historical mention and be inspired by it; to hear the implication, [...] to see ‘similarities,’ both real and projected.” This supplement features translations of the following stories:  “The River” by Markiyan Kamysh, translated from Ukrainian by Hanna Leliv; “Good Fate” and "600 Square Feet" by Virginia Suk-yin Ng, translated from Chinese by Mary King Bradley; an excerpt from Fall Is the Last Season of the Year by Nasim Marashi, translated from Persian by Poupeh Missaghi; and an excerpt from The Barbarian's Laughter by Sema Kaygusuz, translated from Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury. Moving into poetry, check out “Zero Meridian” and “Bárðarbunga” by Marie Silkeberg, translated from Swedish by Kelsi Vanada; five untitled poems from The Mistaken Place of Things by Gabriela Aguirre, translated from Spanish by Laura Cesarco Eglin; five poems by Ahmet Haşim, translated from Turkish by Donny Smith; “A form of listening” by Andra Rotaru, translated from Romanian by Anca Roncea; and “Prayer (or The Apple, 7/28/2013)” by Dimitra Kotoula, translated from Greek by Maria Nazos. Finally, an interview by managing editor and Editor-In-Chief André Forget with Jennifer Croft discusses the act of translation itself and Croft's translation of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights from the original Polish, which won the Man Booker International Prize. As the days get shorter and the leaves get brighter, we hope you’ll take some time to settle in somewhere cozy and enjoy this collection of stories and poems. Don't forget to check out The Town Crier for a month on the books we come back to every October, and stay tuned for news on our seventh annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize and our Black Friday event! Kind regards, The Editors