Writing in The New Yorker, and discussing Dante in translation and Dan Brown’s new novel, Joan Acocella cites Robert Pinsky, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky, the U.S. poet who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in  ”WHAT THE HELL: Dante in translation and in Dan Brown’s new novel” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 27.05.13): “By my count there have been something like a hundred English-language translations, and not just by scholars but by blue-chip poets: in the past half century, John Ciardi, Allen Mandelbaum, Robert Pinsky, W. S. Merwin.”

Dante Alighieri

John Ciardi

Allen Mandelbaum

W. S. Merwin

Dan Brown

Joan Acocella

Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Biopic Blonde based on a 700-page imagined memoir written by Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to issue 7 of Interlitq

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, the U.S. author who contributed prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Cannes: Worldview Options Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Biopic Blonde” (Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 18.05.13): “The fictional biopic of Marilyn Monroe is based on a 700-page imaginedmemoir written by Joyce Carol Oates.”

Marilyn Monroe

Nancy Tartaglione

Lydia Davis, a contributor to Issue 1 of Interlitq, shortlisted for Man Booker prize 2013

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis, the U.S. author who contributed fiction to Issue 1 of Interlitq, has been cited in “URA shortlisted for Man Booker prize” (Deccan Herald, 20.05.13):  ”Noted litterateur U R Ananthamurthy has been shortlisted as one of the ten finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013 that is given away in recognition of the winner’s achievement in fiction and comes with a cash reward of £60,000.

The winner will be announced at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Wednesday. Besides Ananthamurthy, other finalists are Aharon Appelfeld (Israel), Lydia Davis (USA), Intizar Husain (Pakistan), Yan Lianke (China), Marie NDiaye (France), Josip Novakovich (Canada), Marilynne Robinson (USA), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), and Peter Stamm (Switzerland).”

U.R. Ananthamurthy

Aharon Appelfeld

Intizar Husain

Yan Lianke

Marie NDiaye

Josip Novakovich

Marilynne Robinson

Vladimir Sorokin

Peter Stamm

Event at London Zoo, chaired by Ruth Padel, a contributor to issue 9 of Interlitq, moves D.J. Taylor to reflect on Charles Dickens’s “Ode to an Expiring Frog”

Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel, the UK poet who was a contributor to Issue 9 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Love against money? It’s no contest” (D.J. Taylor, The Independent, 19.05.13): At an event held last Tuesday night at London Zoo, the poet Jo Shapcott could be heard talking about the loris – a small furry animal native to Sri Lanka – about which she has written a poem. The series of six discussions, chaired by Ruth Padel, also includes Mark Haddon on Galapagos tortoises and Andrew O’Hagan on the Malaysian tapir, each accompanied by a conservation scientist and the animal itself.

This led me to wonder what might be the most recherché specimen to which a poet has ever addressed a poem. Obviously there is Burns on mice (‘Wee sleekit, cowrin,’ tim’rous beastie’). The Georgian rhymers had a thing about parrots, although one of their number, Sir John Squire, wrote some affecting verses to a cabbage white butterfly he once saw fluttering along the Strand.

The Beat Poets have their moments, although Ed Sanders’ “Sheep Fuck Poem” is probably not much anthologised. But the last word was probably spoken by Dickens, in the shape of Mrs Leo Hunter’s “Ode to an Expiring Frog” in Pickwick (“Can I unmoved see thee dying/on a log/Expiring frog?”). You can keep your lorises.

D.J. Taylor

Now 81, Elena Poniatowska, a Vice-President of Interlitq, rules out possibility of writing her autobiography

Elena Poniatowska

In an interview with Noticieros Televisa (20.05.13), Elena Poniatowska, the Mexican journalist and author who is a Vice-President of Interlitq, has, at the age of 81, ruled out the possibility of writing an autobiography.