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Now and at the Hour of our Death

Posted on 9 September 2015 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

This beautiful book is published by And Other Stories this week. It isn’t easy to write about the dying and their loved ones without falling into clichés and platitudes, especially in such a beautiful setting as rural northern Portugal: “Grass…

Tagged with: And Other Stories, books, Edinburgh Festival, Julia Sanches, Now and at the Hour of our Death, Portuguese, Susana Moreira Marques, Translation
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival

“born of love, not hatred”: Anne Carson’s Antigone

Posted on 2 September 2015 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

Yes, I did go to see Antigone at the Edinburgh Festival because Juliette Binoche was in the title role (I loved her work with Kieslowski, though unfortunately this time, images from Chocolat kept surfacing in my mind). And I made a discovery: Anne Carson’s new…

Tagged with: Anne Carson, Antigone, Antigonick, Bianca Stone, Bloodaxe, Edinburgh Festival, Greek, Oberon Classics, Sophokles, Translation
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival, Illustration, theatre

Women in Translation Month: Trafika Europe and Aurélia Lassaque

Posted on 18 August 2015 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

The Edinburgh festivals are full of wonderful translation events, but this one may have sold out faster than most. Trafika Europe is celebrating their first anniversary with two poets: a Saami man and an Occitan woman. Trafika is a gorgeous online…

Tagged with: Aurelia Lassaque, Edinburgh Festival, James Thomas, Occitan, Poetry, Trafika Europe, Translation
Posted in Edinburgh Festival, poetry, translation

Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai: 100 Japanese ghost stories

Posted on 31 October 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Tonight the old year ends; the day of the dead is coming. Halloween is not just All Hallows’ Eve, it’s also the eve of winter in the Celtic calendar; the gate of the darker half of the year. It’s time…

Tagged with: folklore, ghost stories, Halloween, Hanna Liden, Japanese, kaidan, Mabinogion, Translation, Welsh, Zack Davisson
Posted in Edinburgh Festival, Folklore, international, short stories, translation

Williams translating Williams

Posted on 27 August 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has a new book of poems out this month, first presented at the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I got my hands on a copy. The Other Mountain, published by Carcanet, includes a couple of…