Five women in love. And then out of it. There aren’t going to be happy endings. Until, the author said, she talked to her daughter, and felt that she had to offer a bit of hope. Because what a lot…
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Tagged with: books, Daniela Krien, Die Liebe im Ernstfall, German, Jamie Bulloch, Love in Five Acts, MacLehose Press, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, 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
Europe on Air: Warsaw, Berlin, Istanbul
Being read to isn’t only for children. If you, like me, work closely with complicated texts all day, however much you love reading, it can feel like an effort on workday evenings. But great world literature is just within earshot.…
Tagged with: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, BBC Radio 4, Berlin, Elif Shafak, Entanglement, Finnish, German, Istanbul, Jamie Bulloch, Look Who's Back, Marja-Leena Jaakkola, Polish, Reading Europe, Svetlana Alexeievich, three percent, Timur Vermes, Warsaw, Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Posted in books, literature, radio, translation
Posted in books, literature, radio, translation
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