At Read Paper Republic, you can find a new Chinese writing every week for a year. The editors want to introduce Chinese short stories, essays and poems for free, to people who don’t know where to start. And they start…
Monthly Archives: June 2015
New Chinese writing: A Yi
Tagged with: A Yi, Anna Holmwood, Chinese, Literature, Michelle Deeter, Read Paper Republic, Translation
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Posted in Uncategorized
The little black fish swims back out to sea
Tiny Owl is a new children’s book publisher with a noble aim: to “introduce the cream of the crop of global children’s literature, contemporary and old, to the English speaking audience.” Their 2015 catalogue focuses on Persian treasures, and it’s moving,…
Tagged with: Azita Rassi, Farshid Meshgali, Farsi, Iran, Little Black Fish, Persian, Samad Behrangi, Tiny Owl, Translation
Posted in literature, translation
Posted in literature, translation
Women’s World Cup of Literature: Cameroon vs. Switzerland
The Women’s World Cup of Literature kicks off today, with a Francophone first fixture. I wasn’t the only one to be both delighted by a world cup I really wanted to follow last year, but complain about the lack of female…
Tagged with: Cameroon, French, Leonora Miano, Literature, Noelle Revaz, Switzerland, Tamsin Black, Translation, W. Donald Wilson, World Cup of Literature
Posted in literature, translation, World Cup of Literature
Posted in literature, translation, World Cup of Literature
The Ladyman
The 6th Queer Issue of Words Without Borders is out this month, with a strong showing from Central and Eastern Europe. The Serbian piece by Dragoslava Barzut is heart breaking, the opening of Zuzana Kepplová’s Slovak piece made me laugh,…
Tagged with: Czech, Dragoslava Barzut, Literature, Peter and Julia Sherwood, Polish, Queer, Sean Gasper Bye, Serbian, Slovak, Sylwia Chutnik, Translation, Warsaw, Women, Words without Borders, Zusana Kepplova, Zuzana Brabcova
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Posted in books, literature
found in translation 