In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte and guest co-host Shelby Vincent as they virtually sit down with Sean Cotter, Translator and Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology. You will hear about Sean's journey as a translator of the Romanian, his experience translating Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, and his perspective on the Romanian literary translation scene.

Sean, an award-winning translator of the Romanian, has published 11 books in English translation. His most recent is Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu for which he received National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship and for which Cărtărescu won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Some of his other works in translation include T.O. Bobe’s Curl and Nichita Stănescu’s Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems, which won the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry in 2013 by Three Percent.