The Annotated Nightstand: What Katrina Dodson is Reading Now, and Next
Small horn toot for the hundredth Annotated Nightstand! Thrilled to have this incredible guest for this milestone column. For years I have considered Katrina Dodson a high priestess of translation, quietly yet relentlessly exerting herself in her work translating Brazilian
The Annotated Nightstand column marks its 100th edition, featuring Katrina Dodson, a renowned translator of Brazilian literature into English. Dodson is best known for her translations of Clarice Lispector, which she read in two years, comparing the experience to reading Stephen Mitchell's Rilke translations. Dodson has also published a new collection, Covert Joy: Selected Stories, featuring some of Lispector's greatest short stories and new essays by Rachel Kushner and Paulo Gurgel Valente.
On her nightstand, Dodson keeps a clock radio, glasses, a Vietnam coaster, a doily coaster, toddler detritus, and the latest Molasses Quarterly issue. She recently finished W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and started The Emigrants, feeling triumphant after a decade of struggling with the book. Dodson also praises Tom Overton's biography of John Berger and Jen Calleja's book Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, which explores the world of translation.
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