The Agla trilogy is over and I am feeling slightly bereft. I’d waited for a long stretch of holiday when there was nothing I HAD to read, for translating or editing, for book clubs, for work… I wanted to have…
Yearly Archives: 2026
Waiting for translation: Agla
Tagged with: Agla, books, Fantasy, Polish, Powergraph, Radek Rak, Translation
Posted in books, Folklore, theatre
Posted in books, Folklore, theatre
Songs from the Arctic Ocean
The far north is cold, and to survive there, people cling together. But sometimes social pressure pushes them apart. That doesn’t stop Priita-Kaisa Seipäjärvi from trying, again and again, to be with the man she loves. There’s so much more…
Tagged with: Aki Räsänen, books, Finnish, Ingeborg Arvola, Norwegian, Ruijan rannalla, Sanger fra Ishavet, Songs from the Arctic Ocean, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Human behaviour: a study
Why has it taken me this long to find Lena Andersson? The way she writes how people – especially women – behave, think and feel is extraordinary. I felt seen, and it was not comfortable. I think I know people…
Tagged with: August Prize, books, Finnish, Lena Andersson, Pan Macmillan, Sanna Manninen, Sarah Death, Saskia Vogel, Siltala, Studie i mänskligt beteende, Swedish, Translation, Tutkielma inhimillisestä käyttäytymisestä
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
found in translation 