Looking back on my first year as an author/translator in Britain
I still haven't posted anything here this year, it's April already and possibly a bit late to look back on 2022, the first whole year I've spent as an author/translator in Britain. But I feel like doing it now, and with the time that has passed some things may appear clearer, not only to myself, but also to anyone who is reading this blog. I came to London in the midst of the pandemic and with two small books for translation in my suitcase, the poetry collection Λοιπόν; ( So? ) by Yiannis Ritsos, 1978, and the essay collection Oeffentlichkeit als Partner ( The public as partner ) by Max Frisch, 1967. I've translated the first one into English (and German). I'm still looking for a publisher. Prototype have recently published another Ritsos collection, this may be a sign that the time is ripe for some kind of a Ritsos revival. He is a poet who was most popular at the high time of the (now traditional) New Left. Since then his work has been sparsely published in Eur