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Tagged with: Agnar Artúvertin, Asymptote, faroese, Free Word Centre, Literature, Matthew Landrum, Poetry, Translation
Posted in international, literature, translation
Posted in international, literature, translation
Women on the top of the world?: Rauni Magga Lukkari
It is extremely hard to find Sámi literature in English. This could be a deliberate strategy: Sámi author Ellen Marie Vars refused to allow translations of her work into majority languages, because she wanted people to read in Sámi. The…
Tagged with: Finnish, KEnneth Steven, Nordic, Poetry, Rauni Magga Lukkari, Rowan, Sami, Translation, Women
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
The space between: After the Berlin Wall fell
25 years ago, the Berlin Wall came down. 9 November might seem like a good date to celebrate German reunification, but because the same day in 1938 saw the burning of synagogues and destruction of Jewish property across Germany, they…
Tagged with: 9 November 1989, Berlin Wall, books, German, history, Jewish, Literature, Michael Hulse, Russian, Russian Disco, Translation, Wladimir Kaminer
Posted in books, history, international, literature
Posted in books, history, international, literature
Suspended Sentences: New translation of Modiano
A new translation of 2014 Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano’s stories, Suspended Sentences, comes out next month. The translator, Mark Polizotti, also happens to be publisher in chief of MoMa. These novellas are needed: Modiano in English and in print is very hard to…
Tagged with: books, cinema, Flemish, French, history, Literature, Louise Colpijn, Mark Polizotti, Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick Modiano, Second World War, Suspended Sentences, Translation
Posted in books, cinema, history, literature, translation
Posted in books, cinema, history, literature, translation
Finland: Cool or Weird?
Finland is this year’s guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This opens up Finnish literature to a German-speaking and global audience, with lots of great authors and over 60 translators in attendance. Finnland: Cool. I have to say, I DON’T like the…
Tagged with: David Hackston, Finnish, Finnish Weird, Finnland:Cool, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014, German, Johanna Sinisalo, Lola Rogers, Salla Simukka, Timo Parvela, Tove Jansson, Translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Scotland: “If only hitting on the right judgment/were instinctive to humankind!”
Today Scotland votes on independence. As a Welsh neighbour who lived in Scotland for half a decade, I’d love to be voting, but it’s not for me to decide. It’s still a good day to read some Scottish Gaelic poetry, though.…
Tagged with: An Tuil/The Flood, Book of the Dean of Lismore, Gaelic, German, Katherine Whyte Grant, Meg Bateman, Poetry, Ronald Black, Scotland, Scottish Referendum, Translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, Scotland Referendum, translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, Scotland Referendum, translation
25 years – that’s a quarter of a century…
In just a few weeks time, it will be 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That’s a quarter of a century… makes a girl think. If you, too, wear glasses from reading too much small print, you will…
Tagged with: 1989, Art Spiegelman, Arundhati Roy, Atonement, Central Europe, Christina Viragh, Czesław Miłosz, German, God of Small Things, Hungarian, IanMcEwan, Kertész Imre, Literature, Maus, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Polish, quarter of a century, Tim Wilkinson, Wisława Szymborska, World Literature Today
Posted in history, international, literature, poetry, translation
Posted in history, international, literature, 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
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