The Bridge Series &
PEN American Center Translation Committee

launch their new partnership and invite you to join us
at the Brooklyn Book Festival
with three prominent translators of science fiction

Ross Benjamin (German)
Terry Gallagher (Japanese)
Michael Kandel (Polish)

who will read and discuss their work

@ Singularity & Co. bookstore
18 Bridge St., Brooklyn, NY 11201

September 18, 2014, @ 7 PM

An Official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event

ROSS BENJAMIN is a translator of German literature and a writer living in Nyack, New York. His translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Kevin Vennemann’s Close to Jedenew, Joseph Roth’s Job, Thomas Pletzinger’s Funeral for a Dog, and Wolfgang Jeschke’s The Cusanus Game. He was awarded the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov. His literary criticism has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, The Nation, and other publications. He was a 2003–2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and is a graduate of Vassar College. He is currently at work on a translation of Franz Kafka’s complete Diaries, and his translation of Clemens Setz’s novel Indigo will be published by Liveright/Norton in November 2014.

TERRY GALLAGHER is best known for his translations of Toh EnJoe, 2012 winner of Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Gallagher’s translation of EnJoe’s debut work, Self-Reference ENGINE (Viz Media, 2013), received the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation this year. In the 1990s, Gallagher contributed translations of short stories by Masahiko Shimada and Amy Yamada to Monkey Brain Sushi (Kodansha), a ground-breaking anthology of new Japanese literature. He has translated a total of five book-length works for Viz Media, and short stories for the anthologies Monkey Business 4 (A Public Space, 2014), The Future is Japanese (Viz, 2012), and Speculative Japan 2 (Kurodahan Press, 2011). Gallagher spent 15 years as a journalist for Reuters and Dow Jones, in Tokyo, Bonn and New York. Originally from Brooklyn, he graduated from Brown University, and has now lived for 15 years on Cape Cod (yes, even in winter).

MICHAEL KANDEL is perhaps best known for his translation of major works—including Fiasco, His Master’s Voice, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and The Futurological Congress—of Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. Kandel has also translated works by Jacek Dukaj and Andrzej Sapkoswki, and he is the editor and translator of the anthology A Polish Book of Monsters. He also worked as an editor at Harcourt, where he acquired authors Jonathan Lethem, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Morrow, and others. Kandel was a Fulbright student in Poland, 1966-67; received his PhD in Slavic Literature at Indiana University; taught Russian literature at George Washington University; wrote a few articles on Lem; and has written science fiction, short stories, and a few novels (published by Bantam, St. Martin’s); and is presently an editor at the Modern Language Association. His translation of Marek Huberath’s Nest of Worlds was published by Restless Books last year.