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…
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Now and at the Hour of our Death
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
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival
“born of love, not hatred”: Anne Carson’s Antigone
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
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival, Illustration, theatre
Women in Translation Month: Trafika Europe and Aurélia Lassaque
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
Posted in Edinburgh Festival, poetry, translation
Williams translating Williams
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…
Tagged with: books, Edinburgh Book Festival, Literature, Poetry, Rowan Williams, The Other Mountain, Translation, Waldo Williams, Wales, Welsh
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival, faith, literature, poetry, translation, Uncategorized
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival, faith, literature, poetry, translation, Uncategorized
found in translation 