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The special issue of Studies in the Novel devoted to Translingual Fiction will be published in winter 2016. Articles may deal with the history or theory of translingual fiction; a comparison of translingual novels or novelists; or specific translingual novels or novelists.
Underpass, a new online journal for international literature, is accepting submissions of short fiction and narrative nonfiction from established and new writers from around the world. For the launch edition, we’re accepting submissions of short stories, narrative nonfiction pieces, and excerpts from longer work that has been translated into English….
Kenyan born and internationally acclaimed, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is the author of more major works of fiction, nonfiction, and drama than any African writer. His groundbreaking first novel Weep Not, Child recently celebrated fifty years, and he has since published over thirty works in English and his native language, Gikuyu….
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayaka In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Professor Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthcoming issue of Postcolonial Text dedicated to Prof….
From the Paris Review’s conversation with Elena Ferrante, the first in-person interview the writer has granted. At fifteen I began to write stories about brave girls who were in serious trouble. But the idea remained — indeed, it grew stronger — that the greatest narrators were men and that one…