English professor’s cotranslation of poetry wins PEN American Literary Award
Tue, 01 Mar 2022
Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.
Continue ReadingNational Endowment for the Arts grant supports Open Letter’s ‘International Voices’ project
Tue, 11 Jan 2022
Lauded for contributing to Rochester’s creative economy, the nonprofit literary translation press will publish five works of literature with the funding.
Continue ReadingOpen Letter novel wins National Book Award
Fri, 19 Nov 2021
Winter in Sokcho is the first title from the University’s literary translation press to be awarded the prize.
Continue Reading‘Goethe was really an outlier in stressing that love was more important’
Tue, 18 Sep 2018
The first complete English translation of Goethe's original 1776 text of "Stella: A Play for Lovers" reveals greater differences in gender relations.
Continue ReadingA small giant in world literature
Tue, 19 Jun 2018
Based at the University, Open Letter is one of only a handful of publishers to offer literature in translation exclusively. 10 years, 100 titles, and 100,000 books later, Open Letter continues to reinvent the world of literary translation.
Continue ReadingJennifer Grotz receives Guggenheim fellowship for poetry
Mon, 10 Apr 2017
The author of four volumes of poetry, Grotz joins 20 other current Rochester faculty who have received Guggenheim Fellowships, which are among the most coveted academic awards.
Continue ReadingUniversity funds undergraduate research globally
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
Each summer the University allocates thousands of dollars to enable to students to conduct research here or abroad—independently, in a lab, or under the guidance of a professor.
Continue ReadingAnd the winners of this year’s Best Translated Book Awards are…
Thu, 05 May 2016
Chad Post, creator of Three Percent and a founder of the awards program as publisher of the University’s Open Letter Books, announced the winners May 4 during a ceremony in New York City.
Continue Reading2016 Best Translated Book Award finalists announced
Wed, 20 Apr 2016
Ten works of fiction and six poetry collections remain in the running for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards following the announcement of the two shortlists yesterday by Three Percent, the University's translation-centric literary website.
Continue ReadingTranslator, collaborator, editor: Creating an award-winning work of ‘living text’
Mon, 22 Feb 2016
Kaija Straumanis ’12 (MA), a graduate of Rochester’s literary translation program and now editorial director at Open Letter, speaks about her work with Latvian writer Inga Ābele.
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