November 9 is a good date to mark German Literature Month; the day the monarchy ended, the day Hitler’s putsch failed, the night of the pogroms he instigated, the day the Berlin Wall came down… It wasn’t as easy as…
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stories from Abulafia Street
The Short Story Project brings you a new story every week from around the globe, online, for free. The stories are in Hebrew, English and the language of origin, and best of all, you can listen or read, so the app…
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
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
Hunted by the fox
Herta Müller is a Nobelist writing in German. Philip Boehm was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for translating her The Hunger Angel and has also translated Brecht and Hanna Krall. I’d been meaning to read both their work for a while, and…
Tagged with: German, Herta Müller, Nobel Prize, Philip Boehm, Portobello Books, Romania, The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, Translation
Posted in books, Nobel Prize in Literature, translation
Posted in books, Nobel Prize in Literature, translation
Women’s day: translations to last all year
It’s women’s day, and time to look for the women in translation once again, at the Free Word Centre and elsewhere. The statistics are shocking as ever. But there is plenty to read if you look. Rather than lamenting, just go out…
Tagged with: Agnete Friis, Alina Bronsky, Alison Anderson, Annie Holmes, Austrian, Bela Shayevich, Belarusian, Bruce Benderson, Calais, Danish, Elisabeth dyssegaard, Emmanuelle Pagano, Finnish, French, German, Herta Müller, Jamie Bulloch, Jennifer Higgins, Johanna Sinisalo, Jovanka Kalaba, Jovanka Zivanovic, Karen Kovacik, Lene Kaaberbol, Linda Stift, Lola Rogers, Michele Halberstadt, Muriel Barbery, Olumide Popoola, Philip Boehm, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sophie Lewis, Svetlana Alexievich, Tim Mohr, Translation, Women's day
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
A voice from Nowhereland
Mascha Kaléko died 40 years ago this week. Her poems are full of longing, memory and regret, even for things that haven’t happened yet, by someone who always had to move on. She has a gloriously Central European knot of…
Shakespeare 400: Sonnets in translation
Shakespeare died 4 centuries ago this year, and the English celebrations have begun in style. Translations of some of his best loved work show how he has captured the global imagination – and been localised along the way. Shakespeare’s Globe…
Tagged with: Christa Schuenke, German, Globe Theatre, Polish, Shakespeare, Stanisław Barańczak, Translation
Posted in literature, poetry, theatre, translation
Posted in literature, poetry, theatre, translation
Drama in Wrocław: European Capital of Culture 2016
Wake up! Wrocław is the new European capital of culture, and a year of celebrations kicks off this weekend. It is a gorgeous city with a complex cultural history – go if you haven’t yet – which has produced some world-class…
Tagged with: Adam Czerniawski, European Capital of Culture, Gerhart Hauptmann, German, Kafka, Mary Morison, Polish, Tadeusz Różewicz, The Trap, The Weavers, theatre, Translation, Wrocław
Posted in literature, theatre, translation
Posted in literature, theatre, translation
listen! – auf, wrzzz, shhhh…
It isn’t easy to explain a translator’s work to your nephews when they are just learning to read, but when I heard Saara Pääkkönen, who translates the Donald Duck comics into Finnish, explaining that she drops objects to hear what sound they…
Tagged with: Andrew Shields, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Finnish, German, Lyrikline, Maria Lyytinen, Poetry, Polish, Risto Oikarinen, Saara Pääkönen, Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Translation, Ulrike Draesner
Posted in poetry
Posted in poetry
found in translation 