Barcelona is changing. The socialists are on the rise, the ruling class is in decline, and the Catholic Church with it. Modern women are doing things their mothers would never have dreamed of doing, let alone in public. More and…
Monthly Archives: September 2017
The private lives of Barcelona
Tagged with: Archipelago Books, Barcelona, books, Catalan, Josep Maria de Sagarra, La Central, Literature, Mary Ann Newman, Private Life, Spanish, Translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich’s first book is the latest to be (re-)translated into English, in the wake of her Nobel Prize win. It tells a story that stretches back over a century – Russian women fought against Napoleon too, as Alexievich notes…
Tagged with: Belarus, books, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Russian, Soviet Union, Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Finland 100: The oak grove
The civil war that followed hot on the heels of independence is both very present and very absent from Finnish consciousness. It tore families and communities apart and is still difficult to talk about. Earlier this year, someone had the…
Tagged with: Asko Sahlberg, civil war, Emily Jeremiah, Finland 100, Finnish, Fleur Jeremiah, Suomi100, Tammilehto, The Brothers
Posted in books, Finland 100, history, translation
Posted in books, Finland 100, history, translation
The Dove’s Necklace
Last weekend marked the end of Eid al-Adha, when millions of pilgrims gathered in Mecca. In this story, one man makes his way into the Kaaba itself… This story starts with the city: not the pilgrims, but the women and…
Tagged with: Adam Talib, Arabic, International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Katharine Halls, Mecca, Raja Alem, Saudi Arabia, The Dove's Necklace, Translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
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