When is a translation not a translation? When it’s a version. Or “poems after.” I like that. They’re definitely after, as Dafydd ap Gwilym was writing poems seven centuries ago. Now Matthew Francis has written those new versions. He compares…
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The Green Month
Tagged with: books, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Faber, Kishan Rajani, Matthew Francis, Poetry, Translation, Welsh
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Glad rags waiting for translation
The Heap has a life of its own. The ground floor is for grandparents, the first floor is for family, but the attic is for the Great Heap of Clothing. It absorbs and hoards, digesting some items like compost, only…
Waiting for translation: Róża!
The whole world is my home. That subtitle sums up Weronika Kostyrko’s biography of Róża Luksemburg. She was the talk of the town. People came up to congratulate her parents in the streets of Warsaw. A woman, with a doctorate!…
Tagged with: books, Marginesy, Polish, Rosa Luxemburg, Translation, Weronika Kostyrko
Posted in books, history
Posted in books, history
Tik tak tock
What if sci-fi was more about how people – or creatures, or beings and machines – relate and connect and less about them killing each other? What if it was more a disquieting little spike of unlikelihood in the middle…
Tagged with: Chineese, Clarkesworld, Joanna Karmasz, Polish, Speculativefiction, Tajfuny, Tick Tock, Tik-tak, Translation, Xia Jia
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Exophony
What does it feel like to be so far away from your own language that you can see it from the outside? What does dwelling in another language do to you, and to that language? What can you create in…
Tagged with: books, Dialogue Books, Exophony, German, Japanese, Lisa Hoffmann-Kuroda, Translation, Yoko Towada
Posted in books, language, translation
Posted in books, language, translation
Waiting for translation: Agla
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…
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
Waiting for translation: Snowsinger
All I want for Christmas is a new translation, a new translation, a new translation. That doesn’t scan quite the same as “my two front teeth,” but if I say it often enough, will it happen? The Snowsinger could sing…
Tagged with: books, Emmi Itäranta, Finnish, Kalevala, Lumenlaulaja, Snowsinger, Translation
Posted in books, Folklore
Posted in books, Folklore
Waiting for translation: Light!
Ah, it’s summer, you’re fourteen and in love… isn’t that perfect? Except it’s 1986, and Chernobyl just exploded. Except the girl you’re in love with is having a hard time. Except you’re a girl too, and your parents are absolutely…
Tagged with: books, Finnish, Light light light, Owen Whitesman, Translation, Valoa valoa valoa, Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen
Posted in books, Queer, translation
Posted in books, Queer, translation
