150 new books are being launched at over 200 events right now in Barcelona – it’s Catalan Book Week. There is much to celebrate, not least the 20th Trajectòria Award going to translator Anna Casassas. You don’t have to go to Barcelona…
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Catalan Book Week: something new, something old
Tagged with: Breviculum, Catalan, Catalan Book Week, Catalonia, Ramon Llull, Translation
Posted in books, Illustration, international, language, translation
Posted in books, Illustration, international, language, translation
We need more Akhmatova
With some books, you have to be ready.This poet is one of Russia’s best, but it took me this long to sit down and read her. It’s time you did, too. Anna Akhmatova’s Selected Poems in Richard McKane’s English translation…
Tagged with: Anna Akhmatova, Bloodaxe Books, Poetry, Richard McKane, Russian, Translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, faith, history, literature, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, faith, history, literature, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Rilke Shake
Two! Brazilian women in English translation on the ALTA national translation award long list. Is it the Olympic effect? Clarice Lispector is a heavyweight contender, but here’s something new, featherlight and deft from the south. It probably weighs less than…
Tagged with: Angélica Freitas, Brazil, BTBA 2016, Hilary Kaplan, NTA long list, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Portuguese, Queer, Rilke Shake, Translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Women in translation month: Lydia Grigorieva
As women in translation month returns, the task is simple – just read! So I went to a new publisher of Slavonic literature, Glagoslav, and found the perfect way to start. Lydia Grigorieva’s Shards from the Polar Ice is out today and…
Tagged with: Glagoslav, John Farndon, Lydia Grigorieva, Olga Nakston, Richard McKane, Russian, Shards from the Polar Ice, Translation, Ukrainian, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Sur’s Ocean
“What poet, hearing the poems Sur has made, would not nod his head in pleasure?” (Nabhadas). Swim in the ocean of his words, or down-river from his source, in this stout annotated volume of just over 400 of the thousands…
Tagged with: Devanagari, India, John Stratton Hawley, Kenneth Bryant, Murty Classical Library, Old Hindi, Poetry, Sur's Ocean, Surdas, Translation
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
reflected in the rainwater butt: Regentonnenvariationen
Thistle stars, quince suns, and a buzzing alphabet of midges: Jan Wagner sees nature upside down and inside out. He will make you see the world in a whole new way. I found the young Hamburg poet on a trip…
Tagged with: German, Jan Wagner, Matthew Sweeney, Poetry, Regentonnenvariationen, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
The Transmigration of Bodies
Having a book subscription can be a bit hit and miss. The new book can be fascinating, and just right for you, but does it land on your doormat when you’re ready to read it? This week, the right thing…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Best Translated Book Award, Spanish, The Transmigration of Bodies, Translation, Yuri Herrera
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, translation
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
This woman can tell a story or two. Or a hundred. Svetlana Alexievich writes so well because she knows who to ask and how to listen. She received last year’s literature Nobel for her ‘polyphonic writings’ – but she’s not a…
Tagged with: Bela Shayevich, Belarus, history, Nobel Prize, Russian, Second Hand Time, Soviet Union, Svetlana Alexievich, Translation
Posted in books, history, Nobel Prize in Literature, translation
Posted in books, history, Nobel Prize in Literature, translation
Lady Midday
It started with an eight-year-old boy left at the train station by his mother, as the Germans flee the Red Army approaching Szczecin/Stettin in 1945. We need to go back more than twenty years to find out how it came…
Tagged with: Anthea Bell, Die Mittagsfrau, German, German Book Prize, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Julia Franck, Lady Midday, The Blind Side of the Heart, Translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Posted in books, history, translation
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