Tess Lewis
@tesslewis.bsky.social
Writer and translator from French and German. Walter Benjamin, Montaigne, Lutz Seiler, Maja Haderlap, etc. tesslewis.org
It's an honor to be in such good company on the Helen & Kurt Wolff prize shortlist. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...
Shortlist 2025 - Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize - Goethe-Institut USALogo Goethe-Institut
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May 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It's an honor to be in such good company on the Helen & Kurt Wolff prize shortlist. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...
I'm delighted to be speaking with Christine Smallwood and Cécile Wajsbrot about Virginia Woolf, fiction, translation and recuperation Community Bookstore on Tuesday 22nd at 7 pm www.communitybookstore.net/events/20250...
April 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm delighted to be speaking with Christine Smallwood and Cécile Wajsbrot about Virginia Woolf, fiction, translation and recuperation Community Bookstore on Tuesday 22nd at 7 pm www.communitybookstore.net/events/20250...
Art as a threshold through Agamben’s eyes up at The Arts Fuse
Tess Lewis files a Translation Spotlight column: In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds that have been central to his life and to the life of his mind.
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Translation Spotlight: The Philosopher on the Threshold - The Arts Fuse
In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds that have been central to his life and to the life of his mi...
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April 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Art as a threshold through Agamben’s eyes up at The Arts Fuse
Slightly stretching the bounds of 'bimonthly', my second Translation Spotlight is up @theartsfuse.bsky.social with a three-book look at a mind at work and play. artsfuse.org/308676/trans...
Translation Spotlight: The Philosopher on the Threshold - The Arts Fuse
In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds that have been central to his life and to the life of his mi...
artsfuse.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Slightly stretching the bounds of 'bimonthly', my second Translation Spotlight is up @theartsfuse.bsky.social with a three-book look at a mind at work and play. artsfuse.org/308676/trans...
@roughghosts.bsky.social dives into Woolf's 'ghostly corridor' of Time Passes with Cécile Wajsbrot. Here's his haunting reading of NEVERMORE.
Staying too literal is a dead end: Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social
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Staying too literal is a dead end: Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot
It is the beginning of time. There was a before, of course, there was day, but everything begins, begins again at night. Genesis. The beginning of time. “Time Passes,” the second part of To the Lig…
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March 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@roughghosts.bsky.social dives into Woolf's 'ghostly corridor' of Time Passes with Cécile Wajsbrot. Here's his haunting reading of NEVERMORE.
Another fascinating interview by @ajbwells.bsky.social
I visited the brilliant Cécile Wasjbrot in Paris to talk about her marvelous novel NEVERMORE (trans. @tesslewis.bsky.social), the legacy of Virginia Woolf, Jewish identity in Europe, and more >>>
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Nevermore: Chernobyl, Virginia Woolf and catastrophe - The Berliner
Destruction, loss and time intertwine in Cécile Wajsbrot's novel, Nevermore, which masterfully frames translation as a journey of recovery.
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February 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Another fascinating interview by @ajbwells.bsky.social
In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment
Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations - The Arts Fuse
One of translation’s greatest powers -- its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language and set of conventions and transplant it into another -- is a delicate pro...
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January 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment
Reposted by Tess Lewis
Thrilled to announce that we have not just one but two books longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
January 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thrilled to announce that we have not just one but two books longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
Thrilled that my translation of Lutz Seiler's STAR 111 has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award! Congrats to all the authors and translators on this fabulous list. dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/... @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @andotherstories.bsky.social
2025 - Dublin Literary Award
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January 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thrilled that my translation of Lutz Seiler's STAR 111 has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award! Congrats to all the authors and translators on this fabulous list. dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/... @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @andotherstories.bsky.social
Reposted by Tess Lewis
"Star 111 is a rich and strange novel of Germany’s change."
Lutz Seiler's Star 111, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social, was insightfully reviewed by Tom Connolly at ArtsFuse.
If you have any interest in the Wenderoman, or just great literature, pick up Star 111.
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Lutz Seiler's Star 111, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social, was insightfully reviewed by Tom Connolly at ArtsFuse.
If you have any interest in the Wenderoman, or just great literature, pick up Star 111.
artsfuse.org/302644/book-...
Book Review: Lutz Seiler's Vision of German Reunification, "Star 111" -- Dropping Stars Thick as Stones - The Arts Fuse
Lutz Seiler’s novel is part of the post-reunification literature landscape, in this case a brilliant exploration of the personal and political viewed through the consciousness of a pensively bedeviled...
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December 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
"Star 111 is a rich and strange novel of Germany’s change."
Lutz Seiler's Star 111, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social, was insightfully reviewed by Tom Connolly at ArtsFuse.
If you have any interest in the Wenderoman, or just great literature, pick up Star 111.
artsfuse.org/302644/book-...
Lutz Seiler's Star 111, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social, was insightfully reviewed by Tom Connolly at ArtsFuse.
If you have any interest in the Wenderoman, or just great literature, pick up Star 111.
artsfuse.org/302644/book-...
I wrote about some reading highlights of 2024 for @theartsfuse.bsky.social including Dana Gioia, Becca Rothfeld, Edwin Frank, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, and Mark Haber artsfuse.org/303084/arts-...
Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2024 - The Arts Fuse
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
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December 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I wrote about some reading highlights of 2024 for @theartsfuse.bsky.social including Dana Gioia, Becca Rothfeld, Edwin Frank, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, and Mark Haber artsfuse.org/303084/arts-...
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"These days, it’s hard to envision what [Lutz] Seiler’s translator, Tess Lewis, calls 'the heady atmosphere of hope and disorientation' that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Luckily, Seiler’s STAR 111 brings it all vividly back."
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...
6 New Historical Fiction Books
Curl up with these transporting reads.
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December 12, 2024 at 5:06 PM
"These days, it’s hard to envision what [Lutz] Seiler’s translator, Tess Lewis, calls 'the heady atmosphere of hope and disorientation' that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Luckily, Seiler’s STAR 111 brings it all vividly back."
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...
Lutz Seiler STAR 111 on Best Historical Fiction of 2024.
An autobiographical picaresque that reconstructs the exhilarating yet often terrifying experiences of individual East Germans in that brief period between the collapse of the Communist regime and reunification. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
An autobiographical picaresque that reconstructs the exhilarating yet often terrifying experiences of individual East Germans in that brief period between the collapse of the Communist regime and reunification. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
The Best Historical Fiction Books of 2024
Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.
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December 6, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Lutz Seiler STAR 111 on Best Historical Fiction of 2024.
An autobiographical picaresque that reconstructs the exhilarating yet often terrifying experiences of individual East Germans in that brief period between the collapse of the Communist regime and reunification. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
An autobiographical picaresque that reconstructs the exhilarating yet often terrifying experiences of individual East Germans in that brief period between the collapse of the Communist regime and reunification. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
A fascinating deep dive into Lutz Seiler's work by @ajbwells.bsky.social
"His body keeps the score—a kind of music written down"
I wrote for Poetry magazine on the brilliant radioactive literature of East German poet, novelist, essayist, & underground man Lutz Seiler >>>
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/162...
I wrote for Poetry magazine on the brilliant radioactive literature of East German poet, novelist, essayist, & underground man Lutz Seiler >>>
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/162...
Shock and Ore
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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November 25, 2024 at 8:59 PM
A fascinating deep dive into Lutz Seiler's work by @ajbwells.bsky.social
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A piece by @tesslewis.bsky.social on Bloomsbury's new 'Translated By' series www.toledo-programm.de/talks/7433/t...
TOLEDO — TALKS — Translating Translators on Translation and Protecting Translators’ Intellectual Property
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November 22, 2024 at 10:15 AM
A piece by @tesslewis.bsky.social on Bloomsbury's new 'Translated By' series www.toledo-programm.de/talks/7433/t...
It is an excellent list--as are the other SoA translation prize shortlists. A great end of year reading guide!
December 3, 2023 at 7:19 PM
It is an excellent list--as are the other SoA translation prize shortlists. A great end of year reading guide!
Reposted by Tess Lewis
The wanderer doesn't just wander, he carries that comprehension that grows with understanding over the borders that our time is so bitterly reliant on.
Lutz Seiler Star 111
Tr. @tesslewis.bsky.social
Lutz Seiler Star 111
Tr. @tesslewis.bsky.social
November 26, 2023 at 10:10 PM
The wanderer doesn't just wander, he carries that comprehension that grows with understanding over the borders that our time is so bitterly reliant on.
Lutz Seiler Star 111
Tr. @tesslewis.bsky.social
Lutz Seiler Star 111
Tr. @tesslewis.bsky.social