Friday, December 27, 2013

Greek and Turkish Added to the List of Translation Copyright Holders

This is the updated list of foreign translation copyright holders from the page of Curtis Brown agency, Murakami's agent in Europe. It has become quite a long list! Recently Greek and Turkish have been added.
http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/haruki-murakami/colourless-tsukuru-tazaki-and-his-years-of-pilgrimage/



TRANSLATION RIGHTS SOLD
Bulgarian
World
Colibri
Catalan
World
Ediciones Empuries
Czech
World
Euromedia Group
Dutch
World
Uitgeverij Atlas
English
Canada
Doubleday
English
UK & Comm
Harvill Secker
English
US
Knopf
Finnish
World
Tammi
French
World
Editions Belfond
German
World
Dumont Buchverlag
Greek
World
Psichogios Publ Co Greece
Hebrew
World
Kinneret Publishing House
Hungarian
World
Geopen Konyvkiado Kft.
Italian
World
Einaudi Editore
Lithuanian
World
Baltos Lankos
Norwegian
World
Pax
Polish
World
Muza SA
Portuguese
Portugal
Casa das Letras
Romanian
World
Editura Polirom
Serbian
World
Geopoetika Publishing House
Slovak
World
Slovart spol
Slovene
World
Mladinska Knjiga
Spanish
World
Tusquets Editores
Swedish
World
Norstedts
Turkish
World
Dogan Kitapcilik

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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Dull Brown and Indigo Rays: More on People Emanating Colors



I posted on August 19th about the idea of people emanating colors, which appears in Chapter 5 of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki in the story told by one of the characters, called Midorikawa.  But I ran across this theme again last week when reading a vintage mystery by Margery Allingham.  Given Murakami's liking for mysteries and the fact that he was inspired by the American hard-boiled genre when writing his early novels and some short stories, I thought I would post the relevant passage here -- just for fun.

'No,' he said. 'Inspector Oath is not particularly interested in Lisa.'
'Of course he's not,' said Donna Beatrice. 'He's not interested in anyone, I hope. It's perfectly obvious that poor misguided Dacre committed suicide. I told the Inspector there were angry dull brown and indigo rays round the boy's head last night. Read what all the authorities say about dull brown and indigo rays. I don't supposed even the Inspector is going to question the authority of men like Kunst and Higgins. Dull brown and indigo rays mean violence, depression, and a lowering of the cosmic tone. A perfectly simple case of suicide. After all, that's the only charitable way to look at it.'
'You saw the rays? said Max, fixing her with a dark unwavering eye. 'Are you prepared to swear in court that you actually saw colored rays of light encircling young Dacre's head any time in your life?'
Donna Beatrice's gaze wavered for an instant, but not for long. 
'Yes,' she said exasperatingly. 'I can see rays round all your heads now. There are too many dark colors in your own aura, Max.'


From Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost (London: Heinemann, 1934), pp. 58-59.


Photographs from:
http://www.worshiphousemedia.com/motion-backgrounds/36478/Glory-Rays-Indigo
http://www.cjophoto.com/2011/03/brown.html
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

English Translation of Tsukuru Tazaki to Be Released on August 12

It was announced today that the English translation of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Philip Gabriel will be released by Random House on August 12, 2014.  It is already possible to pre-order the book on the publisher's page and on Amazon, but there is no image of the cover yet.

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