Hemon/Krauss on Translation

[Liam]

While I don't think too highly of Hemon as a writer (never read anything by Krauss, so can't comment), I'm glad he's using his social rep to promote translation, translated titles and international literature.

[Rumpelstilzchen]

The Krauss woman is one of the many people who blurb the English edition of Satantango , I haven't read anything by her but I do not really like the works of her husband

[Liam]

I do not really like the works of her husband

Who's he then?

[Rumpelstilzchen]

Who's he then?

Jonathan Safran Foer

[Liam]

Oh. I thought he was gay, .

[Rumpelstilzchen]

Oh. I thought he was gay, .

Sorry to destroy your dreams

[Liam]

Please, he's not that hot, I don't know why I thought what I did.

Not that being married to a woman proves anything, mind you, he could still be a flaming homo.

[Rumpelstilzchen]

he could still be a flaming homo.

haha ....

[Eric]

After all this chat, could someone actually say what Hemon has written about? I think I tried one of his books once but wasn't too keen, like Liam in #1. But I am grateful that he put my translation of an Estonian story by Elo Viiding in Best European Fiction 2010. I'd never heard of Krauss before.