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12 August 2009
Alane Salierno Mason (from Words Without Borders) Diagnoses Literature in Translation (in USA)
29 June 2009
Bestseller’s Lists
t’s always hard to get bestsellers lists from different countries. Today I find out that the French Books Magazine has a compilation of links of bestsellers lists from all over the word. Most of them (or at least the ones I checked) are published by newspapers and magazines, thus they are not official. Still it’s [...]
4 May 2009
News from Brazil
I’m in São Paulo right now, preparing to a seminar in Rio de Janeiro next week about Brazilian Publishing History. If you want to know a little bit more, there is some information in English, but everything else is in Portuguese. I was taking a look at the programme and it’s really amazing to see [...]
27 February 2009
Who’s is afraid of the thumb-culture?
eading this article about cell phone novels in Japan I remembered what I read somewhere the other day about how you can tell the age of a person by the way she or he presses the doorbell. If you press it with your index finger (as I do) you are probably over 30, if [...]
29 January 2009
Territorial Copyright
I tend to believe that the development of the new technologies of book’s printing and distribution will be very positive for authors and publishers of ‘peripheral’ languages and countries, specially for English-speaking countries that are not US and UK or any other publisher that publishes in English (either translations or original works, just because there [...]
26 January 2009
Jorge Amado re-launched
“[...] the process of world relauching of Jorge Amado works has started – until 2012, when the his 100th anniversary is celebrated, his books will be back to Spain, France, Germany, and several countries from East Europe.”
“[...] começa o processo de relançamento mundial dos títulos de Jorge Amado – até 2012, quando será celebrado o [...]
22 January 2009
More books about books… or sort of.
Copyright laws seem something that have always been around us. Actually they’re not that old and are little more than hundred years old in the shape we know it (or something similar). Copyright discussions are in today because of the Internet, but we forget that they started to exist mostly because of the printing world, [...]
19 January 2009
II Seminário Brasileiro sobre Livro e História Editorial
Agora vai! De 11 a 15 de maio vai acontecer no Rio de Janeiro o II Seminário Brasileiro sobre Livro e História Editorial. Eu fui no primeiro em 2004 e foi muito bacana! Tive a chance de dar uma olhada no programa desse ano (ainda não oficial) e a coisa promete. Espero muito poder ir, [...]
18 January 2009
Translations in English
One of the motivations for my thesis was that small number of translations are published in English every year. English as ‘lingua-franca’ could promote much more literary exchange if they translated more. Of course this situation is not a simple issue and it has its own complex reasons to be like this. During my research [...]
