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Author: ALEXANDRA ALTER

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A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

February 15, 2025ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

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Before He Died in Prison, Aleksei Navalny Wrote a Memoir. It’s Coming This Fall.

April 11, 2024April 11, 2024ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on Before He Died in Prison, Aleksei Navalny Wrote a Memoir. It’s Coming This Fall.

In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.

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An Urgent Mission for Literary Translators: Bringing Ukrainian Voices to the West

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on An Urgent Mission for Literary Translators: Bringing Ukrainian Voices to the West

A wartime effort to quickly translate work by Ukrainian novelists, poets and historians is underway — a project as political as it is cultural, authors and translators say.

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Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation

February 11, 2022ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation

Jennifer Croft, who translates the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, is leading a push for her peers and their work to receive more recognition.

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Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’

The novelist, shortlisted for two of his previous books, received one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for his cutting depiction of a white family in post-apartheid South Africa.

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He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find?

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find?

After Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, he instantly gained a wider international audience, something publishers are now scrambling to accommodate.

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The Polarized Publishing World

August 20, 2021ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on The Polarized Publishing World

Political books can be fraught for big publishing houses, but the rewards often outweigh the risks.

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Prince Harry to Write a Memoir

July 19, 2021ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on Prince Harry to Write a Memoir

Penguin Random House said the book, tentatively coming in 2022, would be “an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time.”

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Booker Prize 2020: Douglas Stuart Wins for ‘Shuggie Bain’

November 19, 2020November 20, 2020ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on Booker Prize 2020: Douglas Stuart Wins for ‘Shuggie Bain’

The autobiographical novel, about the lonely gay son of an alcoholic mother in 1980s Scotland, was one of four debut books in this year’s shortlist.

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The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point.

April 8, 2020ALEXANDRA ALTERComments Off on The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point.

“Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982,” a surprise hit when it was published, ignited what Cho Nam-Joo called “a public debate” around gender and inequality.

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