Sant Jordi USA - Chicago: New Takes on Exile Literature: Transcending Bodies and Borders

Izidora Angel in conversation with Alta Price - SEPTEMBER 25, 2022 at AT EXILE IN BOOKVILLE
Two Chicago-based translators invite you to contribute to expanding our definitions of translation and what it can or cannot do. Riffing on the historic notion of German-language Exilliteratur and how language itself can both destroy as well as establish new forms of exile, Izidora Angel will present Bulgarian writer Nataliya Deleva’s Four Minutes (Open Letter, 2021) and Alta Price will introduce Mithu Sanyal’s Identitti (Astra House, July 2022). Both books are by journalists-turned-novelists, so we’ll explore the blurring of fact and fiction across language and culture.
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Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born writer and literary translator in Chicago. She is the author of two translations from Bulgarian, Hristo Karastoyanov’s The Same Night Awaits Us All and Nataliya Deleva’s Four Minutes. Her work has been featured in Astra Magazine, Electric Literature, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Izidora is at work on a memoir about growing up under communism, the made and lost fortunes of a mercurial father, and escaping into anonymity in America.
Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. Alta translates from German and Italian, and was a 2022 finalist for both the PEN America Translation Prize and the Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize with Juli Zeh’s novel New Year.