Moore’s published translations range from 20th-century classics to contemporary novels. He is the former chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and has a doctorate in Italian from New York University.

When it comes to African literature, translation has mostly meant translating work from European languages into African ones. Translation from African languages into English has been long overdue. Now ...

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In 1948, the Irish-language writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain received the kind of rejection letter a novelist might dream of getting. He had submitted his foul-mouthed first novel, “Cré na Cille” (“Churchyard ...