When you’ve got a Man Booker International winner (Marlon James) on your books, you could sit back and relax. Or you could find the next big thing before it happens. That’s what Oneworld has done, buying the world English rights…
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Oneiron
Tagged with: Finlandia Prize, Finnish, Laura Lindstedt, Literature, Oneiron, Oneworld, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Jamala: Crimean Tatar in translation
Eurovision 2016, almost everyone is singing in English (even the French!!!) and a Crimean Tatar wins, singing the chorus in a language that isn’t even available on Google Translate. Because she sings with passion about her people, who were forcibly…
Tagged with: 1944, Crimean Tatar, Eurovision 2016, Jamala, Meni gamdan azat eyle, The Colour of Pomegranates, Translation, Ukraine
Posted in history, international, language, music
Posted in history, international, language, music
Gathering to scatter the dark
Last weekend I went to a big birthday party. It was a chance to catch up with over a hundred family and friends, and family of family and friends of friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen for some years,…
Tagged with: Bill Johnston, Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, Ewa Lipska, Julia Fiedorczuk, Julia Hartwig, Karen Kovacik, Mira Kuś, Poetry, Polish, Robin Davidson, Scattering the Dark, Translation, White Pine Press
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Do you miss your country?
Do you miss your country? If you do, even if you don’t want to go back, it doesn’t matter where you are, but you will understand Monika Szydłowska’s drawings, and you might want to join 13,000 others to see what…
Tagged with: Centrala, Free Word Centre, Monika Szydłowska, Na emigracji, Polish, Translation
Posted in books, Illustration, international, translation
Posted in books, Illustration, international, translation
found in translation 