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AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATOR: Straumanis, photographed in a self-portrait above, helps bring world literature to English language readers as editorial director of Open Letter Books and an award-winning translator of Latvian literature. (Photo: Courtesy of Kaija Straumanis ’12 (MA) )
“A person lives in his language like a fish in water,” says Latvian writer Inga Ābele. “That’s why authors don’t know that much about their own work because they live inside it. If an author wants to test the strength of her work be it a novel, story, or play it should be translated.”
Ābele’s 2008 novel,
High Tide, has been tested multiple times. First translated into Italian and Swedish, it was translated into English in 2013 by Kaija Straumanis ’12 (MA), a graduate of Rochester’s literary translation program and editorial director at Open Letter Books. Housed in Dewey Hall, Open Letter is one of only a few publishers in the English-speaking