Alice Whitmore

Alice Whitmore is a writer and literary translator living on Eastern Maar country. Her translation of Mariana Dimópulos’s Imminence was awarded the 2021 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. She is the translations editor at Cordite Poetry Review and an associate editor at Giramondo.

Works By Alice Whitmore

The Art of De-Composition
In her review of Jennifer Croft’s new novel, Alice Whitmore unearths the hidden correspondences between the fungal kingdom and the world of translation.
3 Mar. 2024
Anonym
While few literary translators are truly ‘anonymous’ these days, many still move like ghosts through the world of publishing, their names omitted not only from the covers of their books but also the reviews and promotional materials that sprout ar...
13 Feb. 2022
Tell Me About A Complicated Woman
What came first: the projection of women’s qualities (wiliness, treachery, dependency) onto translation, or the projection of translation’s qualities (submissiveness, restraint, inferiority) onto women?
13 Aug. 2019
Dirty Realism’s Other Face
‘Here, nothing is sacred; everything is corruptible.’ The term ‘dirty realism’ was coined by critic Bill Buford in 1983, in reference to the short fiction of what he thought of as ‘a new generation of American authors.’ The dirty realist canon, n
15 Mar. 2016

Works Featuring Alice Whitmore

The Curse of Formalism
One of the explanations for minimalism’s success in challenging formalism in the 1960s is that it wasn’t really a challenge at all. Minimalism may well have functioned as a clean critique of abstract expressionism’s perceived excesses, but it wasn...
10 Sept. 2013

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Alice Whitmore

Works By Alice Whitmore

The Art of De-Composition

Anonym

Tell Me About A Complicated Woman

Dirty Realism’s Other Face

Works Featuring Alice Whitmore

The Curse of Formalism