Dutch TPOTS

[ellenkushner]

Oh, boy! Found the new Dutch edition online: Het Privilege von het Zwaard (Luitingh-Sijthoff - my book is Luitingh, I guess, described on this agent's page as books that are thrilling, imaginative, scary, amazing or addictive - that would be me, then. Here's a link to a long article from PW about Dutch publishing, of interest only to the trade).

I thought it was being published in February, but looks like they moved it to July. That explains why I couldn't find the cover (below) til now. I got it off of this website - for a good time, tell Google to translate the page for you - that's all I'll say for now.


ADDED: The actual publisher's page for Het Privilege is here.

Comments

[redbird]

Machine translation, for the win. Though natural language is amusing even without that: even knowing exactly what it means, I am amused that the combination of what words are and aren't different means that you have written a book whose Dutch title contains the phrase "Het Privilege."

Apologies for comment hijacking

[medievalist.livejournal.com]

Did you see this answer, from Sarah Monette about why she includes gay characters in her novels?

Scroll down to the end of the page:

http://truepenny.livejournal.com/587672.html?mode=reply

It's something I've been thinking about a lot of late, about how what I read in childhood and adolescence shaped me, and helped me realize that I could shape my behavior, and beliefs, and thus shape my life. I've been trying to blog about this for months now, after seeing a panel at Potlatch on "the third wave" in GLBT fiction.

The panel horrified me, depressed me, and mostly, pissed me off--for many reasons, among them the assertion that queer sf should only be written (and read!) by "legitimately queer" people.

So Sarah's post made me feel ever so much better.

[annnimeee.livejournal.com]

It looks very Penguin Classics book-ish; like the kind that is required reading for college lit courses.

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[dewinblaidd.livejournal.com]

Wow. I love Sarah Monette too, so knowing that makes her even cooler!

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

This.

In the vein of the old joke that translates the title of this Palestrina motet (http://www.music44.com/X/product/312-42002-C) as "I am a black person, even though I come from Taiwan" I am retranslating this title as "Het Privilege from the Sword."

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Youse guys is good!

When I first heard about the Dutch translation, I actually wrote a whole post headlined "Het Privilege - but not what you think!" I guess I never did finish it, though. So thanks for taking care of that.

(Still laughing about Taiwan!)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Wow - I never thought of that, but you're right!

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Hey! I know you! I know you from my, like, six-month S_F binge! I always thought you were kind of awesome, and the awesome meter just rose a whole lot. :)

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

...Does that mean "legitimately queer" people can't write any straight characters?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Classy. (Does this mean we have to abbreviate it to HPVHZ now? At least TPOTS is pronounceable...)

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oh, golly! I'd put off clicking on the link because I thought it would be a long essay I'd have to think about & maybe even respond to - but this? Pure candy!! Thank you very much.

Your description of the Potlatch panel is indeed disturbing - and surprising. I thought we were past that, at least as far as queerness went! Gosh, what a good thing I married Delia instead of all those guys I was going out with . . . . Sure would hate to be "illegitimately queer"!

There's a lot more I could say about this, but my back hurts - and you know I Don't Do Essays. However, feel free to hijack - or nudge - me again sometime; it's an interesting topic, and I guess I'm in the hotseat.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yipes - it sounds like a Virus! I could make some lame joke about it being a word in Dutch - but I'm much too enchanted with nicknaming it "Het Privilege." Works for me.

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[medievalist.livejournal.com]

I should add that there was a dissenting voice on the panel--it wasn't a unanimous assertion.

But it troubles me that anyone would still make the assertion, at all.

And the underlying assumptions are even more troubling.

I will nudge you, and thanks for such a gracious reply.