Tag: Akram Aylisli

ASP’s 2022 Year in Review

ASP’s 2022 Year in Review

Academic Studies Press would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy New Year! Though we’re already a few days into 2023, what better time to reflect on what a year 2022 was; we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite reviews, noteworthy media mentions, notable 2022 releases, and more. Here’s to 2023!

Read the World 2022: An ASP Reading List

Read the World 2022: An ASP Reading List

As a publisher that’s values efforts to improve the accessibility of works from all over the world through translation, ASP is excited to be joining the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in celebrating works in translation, their translators, and their publishers by participating in Read The World, an online bookfair taking place over social media from September 30 (International Translation Day) to October 7. To celebrate, we’ve compiled a reading list of some of our favorite recently published and forthcoming translations.

Media Roundup: January 2020

Media Roundup: January 2020

Reviews of Film as Embodied Art, Night and Day, A Russian Immigrant, and Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy; an interview with translator Christopher Fort; video of Ola Hnatiuk’s book launch for Courage and Fear; and more

National Translation Month 2019: Featured Literature in Translation from Azerbaijan, France, Russia, and Uzbekistan

National Translation Month 2019: Featured Literature in Translation from Azerbaijan, France, Russia, and Uzbekistan

Happy National Translation Month! We’re celebrating all month on the blog—earlier this week, we published a guest post from translator Christopher Fort on the legacy of Uzbek writer Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon and his unfinished dilogy Night and Day.

Today, we’ve put together a sampler full of excerpts from four novels, a memoir, a book of essays, and a collection of short stories, translated from Russian, French, and Uzbek.

Media Roundup: July 2019

Media Roundup: July 2019

Reviews of Farewell, Aylis, Beyond Tula, Sin•a•gogue, and Broken Heart/Broken Wholeness; an excerpt from A Russian Immigrant; Mark Biederman featured on CBS News; and more

Now in Paperback: Akram Aylisli’s Farewell, Aylis

Now in Paperback: Akram Aylisli’s Farewell, Aylis

Farewell, Aylis: A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works, the English translation of embattled Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli’s novellas, is now available in paperback!

Learn more and order the paperback edition here.