Two More Things
1. Swedes are very well informed about American literature. And they translate tons of American literature - high and low. And even if they don't translate it, Swedes read it in the English original.
2. I do think American lit is changing, but it's not coming from top down, but from trickle up. Thanks to small presses like Burning Deck, Ugly Duckling, Dalkey Archives and Open Letter etc. When I first started translating Aase Berg's work, nobody wanted to publish it. Now I get requests and Black Ocean is publishing her entire first book and several presses have expressed interest in her other books. All kinds of journals have asked me to edit Swedish special features. Etc. This comes directly out of the proliferation of small presses and journals. Certainly U of Iowa Press isn't going to publish translations all of a sudden.
2. I do think American lit is changing, but it's not coming from top down, but from trickle up. Thanks to small presses like Burning Deck, Ugly Duckling, Dalkey Archives and Open Letter etc. When I first started translating Aase Berg's work, nobody wanted to publish it. Now I get requests and Black Ocean is publishing her entire first book and several presses have expressed interest in her other books. All kinds of journals have asked me to edit Swedish special features. Etc. This comes directly out of the proliferation of small presses and journals. Certainly U of Iowa Press isn't going to publish translations all of a sudden.
posted by Johannes at 3:04 PM
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You would think the UI press would, considering the Translation MFA... on the other hand, maybe not...
Well, my example was kind of dumb because U of Iowa press is hardly a major press...
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