Everyone here at Biblioasis was thrilled to hear the news that Mia Couto was awarded the 2014 Neustadt Prize for Literature last Friday. The prize, which carries a $50,000 purse, is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, and was made possible in perpetuity by a generous endowment from the...
A Singer From Ferghana by Marius Kociejowski
Monâjât
Yultchieva has duende. She has more of it than any
singer I have seen or heard in recent times. She sings into being whole landscapes.
She is Uzbekistan incarnate, or, rather, Uzbekistan’s sweeter side, an
Uzbekistan without its Tamerlane. One day, perhaps, I will be wafted there upon
a woman’s...
An Excerpt of Birth of a Bridge by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore
SITE MEETING – SOMETIME AFTER SEVEN o’clock in the morning
and Diderot is talking, standing mountainous at the end of the oval table. Bare
room, thin partitions, thin carpet hastily placed, smell of glue, smell of new,
freeze-dried coffee, classroom chairs dragged in. These accommodate some fifty
individuals,...
