Tess Lewis

It's an honor to be in such good company on the Helen & Kurt Wolff prize shortlist. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...

I'm delighted to be speaking with Christine Smallwood and Cécile Wajsbrot about Virginia Woolf, fiction, translation and recuperation Community Bookstore on Tuesday 22nd at 7 pm www.communitybookstore.net/events/20250...

Art as a threshold through Agamben’s eyes up at The Arts Fuse

Translation Spotlight: The Philosopher on the Threshold - The Arts Fuse In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds that have been central to his life and to the life of his mi...

Slightly stretching the bounds of 'bimonthly', my second Translation Spotlight is up @theartsfuse.bsky.social with a three-book look at a mind at work and play. artsfuse.org/308676/trans...

@roughghosts.bsky.social dives into Woolf's 'ghostly corridor' of Time Passes with Cécile Wajsbrot. Here's his haunting reading of NEVERMORE.

Another fascinating interview by @ajbwells.bsky.social

Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations - The Arts Fuse One of translation’s greatest powers -- its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language and set of conventions and transplant it into another -- is a delicate pro...

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Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations - The Arts Fuse One of translation’s greatest powers -- its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language and set of conventions and transplant it into another -- is a delicate pro...

In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment

Thrilled to announce that we have not just one but two books longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize!

Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!

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Thrilled that my translation of Lutz Seiler's STAR 111 has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award! Congrats to all the authors and translators on this fabulous list. dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/... @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @andotherstories.bsky.social

oh, I'd love one of those!

Book Review: Lutz Seiler's Vision of German Reunification, "Star 111" -- Dropping Stars Thick as Stones - The Arts Fuse Lutz Seiler’s novel is part of the post-reunification literature landscape, in this case a brilliant exploration of the personal and political viewed through the consciousness of a pensively bedeviled...

"Star 111 is a rich and strange novel of Germany’s change."

Lutz Seiler's Star 111, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social, was insightfully reviewed by Tom Connolly at ArtsFuse.

If you have any interest in the Wenderoman, or just great literature, pick up Star 111.

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Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2024 - The Arts Fuse An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

I wrote about some reading highlights of 2024 for @theartsfuse.bsky.social including Dana Gioia, Becca Rothfeld, Edwin Frank, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, and Mark Haber artsfuse.org/303084/arts-...

It's a heady read!

6 New Historical Fiction Books Curl up with these transporting reads.

"These days, it’s hard to envision what [Lutz] Seiler’s translator, Tess Lewis, calls 'the heady atmosphere of hope and disorientation' that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Luckily, Seiler’s STAR 111 brings it all vividly back."

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The Best Historical Fiction Books of 2024 Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.

Lutz Seiler STAR 111 on Best Historical Fiction of 2024.
An autobiographical picaresque that reconstructs the exhilarating yet often terrifying experiences of individual East Germans in that brief period between the collapse of the Communist regime and reunification. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

A fascinating deep dive into Lutz Seiler's work by @ajbwells.bsky.social

TOLEDO — TALKS — Translating Translators on Translation and Protecting Translators’ Intellectual Property

A piece by @tesslewis.bsky.social on Bloomsbury's new 'Translated By' series www.toledo-programm.de/talks/7433/t...

It is an excellent list--as are the other SoA translation prize shortlists. A great end of year reading guide!

The wanderer doesn't just wander, he carries that comprehension that grows with understanding over the borders that our time is so bitterly reliant on.

Lutz Seiler Star 111

Tr. @tesslewis.bsky.social