Writers Voice » translator http://www.writersvoice.net A national radio show and podcast featuring author interviews, readings, and reviews. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:40:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A radio book show and podcast featuring interviews with authors, poets, playwrights and more Francesca Rheannon clean Francesca Rheannon rheannon05@gmail.com rheannon05@gmail.com (Francesca Rheannon) 2006-2010 A national radio show and podcast featuring author interviews, readings, and reviews. interview, author, editors, publishing, book, literature, tips, fiction,poetry, nonfiction Writers Voice » translator http://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/images/writersvoiceweb-rss.jpg http://www.writersvoice.net H.G. Adler’s THE JOURNEY, Eating Tips for the Holidays, and a Thanksgiving story http://www.writersvoice.net/2008/12/hg-adlers-the-journey-eating-tips-for-the-holidays-and-a-thanksgiving-story/ http://www.writersvoice.net/2008/12/hg-adlers-the-journey-eating-tips-for-the-holidays-and-a-thanksgiving-story/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:40:26 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.writersvoice.net/?p=436 Brian Wansink

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Award-winning translator Peter Filkins talks about THE JOURNEY, a lost masterpiece of Holocaust literature by acclaimed author and survivor H. G. Adler which Filkins translated. Food psychologist Brian Wansink gives us tips on how to keep the pounds off during the Holiday season; and Native American storyteller Marge Bruchac tells us what really happened during the first Thanksgiving.

We talk with translator Peter Filkins about . A survivor of Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, Adler moved to London after World War II and began writing fiction, poetry, philosophy, and history–most of it centered around his experience of the Holocaust. His book about day-to-day life in Theresienstadt was one of the first such survivor accounts to emerge from the war.

But his fiction remained largely unknown, especially outside the German speaking world. Now, Peter Filkins has brought one of his greatest novels, the journey, to English readers. It’s the first-ever English translation of what is being called a lost masterpiece of Holocaust literature.

In addition to translating THE JOURNEY, Peter Filkins has translated the writings of Ingeborg Bachmann, for which he won an award. He’s also a poet. His work has appeared in, among others, the New Republic, the American Poetry Review, the Massachusetts Review, and the New York Times.

Also, food psychologist Brian Wansink gives us tips on how to keep the pounds off during the Holiday season in this excerpt from a 2009 WV interview. His book is . You can find Wansink’s YouTube channel here.

And finally, Native American storyteller Marge Bruchac tells us what really happened during the first Thanksgiving. She also recounts an Indian tale of how humans were given the gift of corn. She’s the co-author of and author of .

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