Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg

Mar 25, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg |Chiara Marchelli |Tobias Carroll

There’s a part of Ben Lerner’s 10:04 I think about frequently. The narrator, who teaches creative writing at a university in New York City, is visited by a student during office hours. The student is impassioned but incoherent, rambling about poetry and porousness and molecules. There’s something wrong with his language, his affect; he’s associating too freely—maybe it’s the result of an amphetamine (prescribed or not), maybe problems at home. “Calvin . . .

Jun 14, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Anton Hur |Bora Chung |Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg

For the record, I also didn’t win the International Booker for which I was nominated. But even before 2022, I had been long resigned to the fact that I just wasn’t what prize committees looked for. I apparently didn’t fit the idea of what an award-winning translator should look like, and my work, no matter how well it was received by critics and the public, simply didn’t warrant singling out. I had shrugged and stopped focusing on what I couldn’t control and looked into what I could.

Jun 14, 2023 | thebookerprizes.com | Anton Hur |Bora Chung |Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg

For the record, I also didn’t win the International Booker for which I was nominated. But even before 2022, I had been long resigned to the fact that I just wasn’t what prize committees looked for. I apparently didn’t fit the idea of what an award-winning translator should look like, and my work, no matter how well it was received by critics and the public, simply didn’t warrant singling out. I had shrugged and stopped focusing on what I couldn’t control and looked into what I could.