“Why write? It is so much easier to say when I started to write. I fell in love with words, and wordsmiths such as Dylan Thomas… in the ‘fifties, when I was growing up, the Welsh language was still seen…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Women in Translation Month: Menna Elfyn
Tagged with: Catrin Glyndwr, Gillian Clarke, Joseph P. Clancy, Menna Elfyn, Murmur, Poetry, Translation, Welsh, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, language, poetry
Posted in books, language, poetry
Tove Jansson 101: Riviera Memories
Tove Jansson turns 101 this Sunday. She was 61 exactly when I was born, so I will be celebrating at a secret location on the day, hence the advance nature of this post. What is there to celebrate this year? For…
Women in Translation Month: ‘Portuguese Pussy Riot’ turns 40
August is Women in Translation Month, as declared by Biblibio: A whole month to read women in translation, a perfect summer holiday project. The dust is settling around Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to only publish women, with And Other Stories taking up the challenge –…
Books for everyone
We need diverse books has one of the best summer reading campaigns around. Every day they’ll offer you and the children and young people you know a new perspective on a favourite story to expand your world. The campaign links to sources…
Tagged with: Children's Books, Erich Kästner, German, international, Language, Letterbox Press, Lucie Arnoux, Mantra Lingua, Polish, Pushkin Children's Books, Translation, We Need Diverse Books, Young Adult
Posted in books, international
Posted in books, international
Knausgaard: which translation?
Knausgård’s Min Kamp/My Struggle series are a publishing sensation and I had to see what all the fuss was about. Not being able to read them in Norwegian, I had a choice of four translations to choose from: English, Polish, German…
Tagged with: Don Bartlett, Finnish, German, Gombrowicz, Iwona Zimicka, Karl Ove Knausgård, Katriina Huttunen, Norwegian, Paul Berf, Polish, Swedish
Posted in books, international, literature, translation
Posted in books, international, literature, translation
O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau: Patagonia 150
One of my earliest language-learning memories is of hot summer afternoons in the early years of high school, when even our unquenchably enthusiastic Welsh teacher would give up and just tell us stories. Of a land far far away, where children…
Tagged with: Language, Patagonia, Translation, Welsh, Y Wladfa
Posted in history, international, language, translation
Posted in history, international, language, translation
The world through your letterbox: PEN World Bookshelf
English PEN has just announced more support for independent publishers to publish works in translation, which is great news since the independents are the ones producing the really interesting stuff. Their world bookshelf of contemporary writers in supported by the PEN…
Tagged with: Anna Politkovskaya, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Arch Tait, Finnish, German, Jenny Erpenbeck, Johanna Sinisalo, Literature, Lola Rogers, PEN Translates, Polish, Rosa Liksom, Russian, Sarah Bernofsky, Translation, Witold Szabłowski, World Bookshelf
Posted in literature, translation
Posted in literature, translation
New Chinese writing: A Yi
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…
Tagged with: A Yi, Anna Holmwood, Chinese, Literature, Michelle Deeter, Read Paper Republic, Translation
Posted in Uncategorized
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
found in translation 