Daniel Hahn

Sep 18, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Ruth Kemp |Daniel Hahn |Nina Perrotta

Spanning nine countries from the Caribbean and Mexico down to Chile and Argentina, these books are a vibrant showcase of the diversity in storytelling and illustration styles from authors writing for young people in Spanish and Portuguese. The riches here are testament, too, to the work of independent publishers such as Enchanted Lion, Eerdmans, and HopeRoad in the UK, as well as Tapioca Stories—a young independent house specializing in translations of quirky Latin American picture books.

Mar 22, 2024 | practicesource.com | Annie McDermott |Rodrigo Calderón |Daniel Hahn |Ismail Kadare

The judges’ selection features ‘books that speak of courage and kindness, of the vital importance of community, and of the effects of standing up to tyranny’, according to Fiammetta Rocco, Administrator of the International Booker Prize A quarter of the list is written by South American authors, with books representing Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela The longlisted books are translated from ten original languages: Albanian, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,...

Mar 11, 2024 | brnw.ch | Daniel Hahn |Hwang Sok-yong |Sora Kim-Russell |Andrey Kurkov

From fresh voices to previous winners, here’s everything you need to know about the 13 books in content for this year’s International Booker Prize Written by Paul Davies Publication date and time: Published March 11, 2024Once again, it’s time to add 13 new titles to your to-be-read list, as the International Booker Prize 2024 longlist is announced.   The 13 books chosen by this year’s judges represent the very best in translated fiction, published in the English language in the UK and Ireland.

Mar 11, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Selva Almada |Daniel Hahn |Ia Genberg |Urszula Honek

From fresh voices to previous winners, here’s everything you need to know about the 13 books in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize Written by Paul Davies Publication date and time: Published March 11, 2024Once again, it’s time to add 13 new titles to your to-be-read list, as the International Booker Prize 2024 longlist is announced.  The 13 books chosen by this year’s judges represent the very best in translated fiction, published in the English language in the UK and Ireland.

Jan 8, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Daniel Hahn

When Google Translate was released, in 2006, I was an eighth grader stumbling through introductory Spanish, and my teacher had little reason to worry about her students using it to cheat. It’s almost hard to remember now, but early machine-translation systems were laughably poor. They could give you the general thrust of, say, a Portuguese website, but they often failed at even basic tasks.