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Williams translating Williams

Posted on 27 August 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has a new book of poems out this month, first presented at the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I got my hands on a copy. The Other Mountain, published by Carcanet, includes a couple of…

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Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival, faith, literature, poetry, translation, Uncategorized

keeping the language alive: polari, manx, cornish

Posted on 21 August 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

When I was a teenager in Cardiff, the family next door spoke Welsh, but most people around spoke English. When I went to babysit, the boys were in shock: how could this other person speak their home language too? They…

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as red as blood

Posted on 13 August 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 5 Comments

In preparation for my next Finnish exam, I’ve been devouring teen literature; the action is usually breathless enough to compensate for my slower reading pace. But when I went to take Ilkka Auer’s Ice-Witch ones back and get As Red…

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freedom is the best thing: Tove is 100!

Posted on 9 August 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

Tove Jansson was born 100 years ago today. If you live in Finland, you won’t have missed the anniversary Moomin mugs (with donations to UNICEF), the large and splendid retrospective of her work at the Ateneum national art gallery, or the…

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Posted in books, Illustration, international, literature, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation

stories from home: books for unaccompanied migrant children

Posted on 1 August 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Reading stories in translation opens up the world to places you could never go to. For some people however, the place they can never go to is back home. More and more children are migrating into the US from Latin…

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