Brainchild I did this thing The kind of thing people have thought about for ages So I feel a bit embarrassed calling it mine – Actually it’s yours. from Small […]
‘Small Sovereign’ wins Los Angeles Book Festival award Read More »
When I left my full-time job as a contractor/carpenter nearly ten years ago, I had a lot of motivation to reinvent myself as a writer/translator. But I had little experience.
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I have good news to share. My collection of poetry, Slow Phoenix, which was published last year, has been recognized in the poetry category of the Independent Press Award® (IPA)
‘Slow Phoenix’ recognized by Independent Press Award Read More »
I was recently asked to do something very different; to translate a poem by Tove Ditlevsen for a Danish fashion designer, Cecilie Bahnsen, who is planning to have my translation read
Cecilie Bahnsen to feature Tove Ditlevsen poem at Paris Fashion Week Read More »
An invitation In late summer of 2021, I was contacted out of the blue by PEN. I had been recommended as a judge for their 25th annual award in translated
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In 2016 I translated Tove Ditlevsen’s Gift into English as Dependency. Through a series of coincidences, in 2018 I was able to submit it for consideration to Penguin Classics, who
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In December, 2021, The Los Angeles Review accepted for publication four poems by Tove Ditlevsen that I co-translated with my colleague Cynthia Graae. Fourteen other poems have been accepted for
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Michael recently gave a talk about Tove Ditlevsen, and The Copenhagen Trilogy at UMass Amherst. He spoke about Ditlevsen’s life and how he first came upon her work. He also
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October 9, 2021, my book launch for my new poetry collections, Small Sovereign and Slow Phoenix, filled the Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA) with jazz music and a poetry
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I’m thrilled to announce that a short story by Tove Ditlevsen, titled “The Umbrella,” was published in this week’s edition of The New Yorker (Online and print, October 25, 2021).
The New Yorker Publishes Ditlevsen, Interviews Michael Favala Goldman Read More »
