This book was written on the run. It captures that moment after 9 November 1938 where things got a lot worse for a lot of people, very rapidly. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, then aged 23, had made it out of Germany…
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The Passenger
Tagged with: 9 November 1938, books, Der Reisende, German, Klett-Cotta Verlag, Philip Boehm, Pushkin Press, The Passenger, Translation, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
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
Alarmingly elegant translations: The White Review
If Paris calls London “alarmingly elegant”, it’s worth taking another look. Especially if it’s in translation from all around the globe. This month’s online issue of The White Review is a box of delights. I like to claim my favourites first,…
Tagged with: Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentinian, Bill Johnston, Finnish, German, Herta Müller, Literature, London, Magdalena Tulli, Paris, Philip Boehm, Poetry, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, Translation, White Review, Yvette Siegert
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
