My first translation was ten years ago, and I would say there has certainly been a shift in the field since then, in no small part thanks to translator/activists like Anton Hur and Deborah Smith. I’ve been so lucky that I have been able to translate authors like Khaled Khalifa and Samar Yazbek a translator is a reader first of all, and having the chance to engage so deeply and intimately with a text is a privilege when it comes to writing like theirs. Like most people in this industry, literary translation is not my only field of work, so it has been hard at times to maintain-especially when holding down full-time work in a completely different area. Leri Price (LP): It’s genuinely an honour to be counted among such amazing colleagues on the longlist and shortlist. How has your journey as a translator been up to this point? Have you noticed any changes or shifts in the literary translation field? Rose Bialer (RB): Last month, Planet of Clay was announced as a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature-just two years after your translation of Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work was a finalist for the same prize. In the following interview, Price graciously shares her thoughts on the importance of translator visibility, the nuances of translating from Arabic, and the books that have changed her life. Though an unflinching account of war, Planet of Clay is, in many ways, a hopeful novel: a testament to the power of our own imaginations in the alleviation of suffering. To escape from the surrounding horrors, she turns to reading, drawing, and daydreaming-creating her own magical universe à la her favorite book, The Little Prince. At a checkpoint one afternoon in Damascus, Rima’s mother is killed, leaving her and her older brother alone to survive. The novel is a haunting exploration of the Syrian civil war, as seen through the eyes of fourteen-year-old girl named Rima. Furthering Price’s accomplishments as an award-winning translator of contemporary Arabic fiction, her translation of Planet of Clay was recently named as a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Leri Price commands language, and-similar to the narrator in Syrian author Samar Yazbek’s Planet of Clay -does so with a prowess for invention. Translated from the Swedish by Kathy Saranpa
Alvarez, from The Autobiography of the Other Lady Gaga Translated from the Polish by Soren Gauger
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Agnieszka Taborska, from The World Has Gone Mad: A Surrealist Handbook on How to Survive.Translated from the German by Hannah Weber Translated from the Danish by Amy Priestley Theis Ørntoft, Our Days in Paradise are Over.Translated from the Russian by Matthew Hyde Andrii Petrovitch Krasnyashchikh, from As Bombs Fall.Translated from the Ancient Greek by Rebekah Curry Translated from the Spanish by Cristina Pérez Díaz Translated from the French by Ella Bartlett Translated from the Korean by An Seon Jae Gong Ji Young, from A Tall, Blue Ladder.Translated from the Serbian by Luka Pavicic Aljoša Ljubojević, How We Started the War.Translated from the French by Charles Lee
Nina Yargekov, The Obedient Little Girl.Translated from the Persian by Alireza Abiz and Edward Doegar Translated from the French by Marine Cornuet
Anna Gréki, from Algérie, capitale Alger.Translated from the Russian by Margaree Little Osip Mandelstam, Lines on an Unknown Soldier.Translated from the Korean by Cindy Juyoung Ok Kim Hyesoon, from The Hell of That Star.Translated from the Danish by Denise Newman Signe Gjessing, from Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus.Translated from the German by Wally Swist
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