Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.
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The presentation of an original German-language translation in Berlin is an opportunity to consider the shared history of the United States and Germany.
Ethan Rundell discusses The Camp of the Saints, its Amazon de-listing, and the pretense of free speech. The post Saving Camp of the Saints appeared first on The American Conservative .
Ethan Rundell is a translator, journalist, alumnus of University of California–Berkeley and Paris’s School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He has translated over a dozen books, as well as scores of academic articles. After several years in France, he now lives in North Carolina, where he co-founded Vauban Books, which specializes in French dissident literature. Mr. Rundell and Vauban Books recently earned headlines after Amazon briefly delisted Vauban’s 2025 English translation of Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints. How did you become the face of The Camp of the Saints in America? How did Blowing Rock, NC, of all places, become a hub of dissident French literature? It’s funny. That’s a funny…Open
“Taiwan Travelogue” is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.
The novel is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
Taiwan Travelogue author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, left, and translator Lin King are the first Taiwanese and Taiwanese-American winners of the International Booker Prize. They are pictured above in London on Monday.'/Open
Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world.
A Washington Post reporter’s doctor in Seoul had a question — how to translate “chicken out,” as in “Trump always chickens out,” into Korean?
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The following selections come from Ethan Rundell’s new translation of The Camp of the Saints (Vauban Books, 2025), a 1973 dystopian novel about a mass […] Source