Literary Journal Editors’ Roundtable, Part 3

Come hear editors from such journals as Guernica (Erica Wright), The Paris Review (Hasan Altaf), and World Literature Today (Daniel Simon) who will provide brief introductions to their journals, discuss the importance they place on translation for their magazines, share their personal tastes regarding what they like in a translation, and then answer questions from the audience.

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Moderator

Neil Blackadder is Translations Editor for Another Chicago Magazine, and a translator of drama and prose from German and French, specializing in contemporary theatre. Neil is a member of the Third Coast Translators Collective, serves on the advisory board of The Mercurian, and cofounded TinT, the Theatre in Translation network.

Presenters

Hasan Altaf was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and studied at New York University and Johns Hopkins University. He joined The Paris Review as managing editor in September 2018, and previously was managing editor at Harper’s Magazine. A poet, translator, and essayist, Daniel Simon is Editor in Chief of World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. His latest edited anthology project, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters, is due out in October 2020. The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Erica Wright is Poetry Editor at Guernica Magazine. Her poetry collections are Instructions for Killing the Jackal and All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned. She is also the author of four novels and the essay collection Snake, which is forthcoming from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series.