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Annie Ernaux: finding the translations

Posted on 15 March 2023 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

When Annie Ernaux received the Nobel Prize in Literature last autumn, I am ashamed to say I had never heard of her. Some French-speaking friends had loved her work for years. Two had learned French outside France, whereas friends who…

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Words of Welsh Women

Posted on 15 February 2023 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 4 Comments

Gwerful Mechain was writing in the 1400s but I only discovered her in 2019, in Zoë Brigley Thompson’s glorious, full-on rendering of I’r Cedor for Modern Poetry in Translation. That poem opens this collection of half a millennium of Welsh…

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Love in…

Posted on 12 January 2023 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

Five women in love. And then out of it. There aren’t going to be happy endings. Until, the author said, she talked to her daughter, and felt that she had to offer a bit of hope. Because what a lot…

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