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Secret passages under my hometown

Posted on 25 April 2018 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

When someone writes about the streets where you live, you feel immediately predisposed towards them. You want to like everything they say, and even if you don’t like it, you will certainly have an opinion. The woman who translates many…

Tagged with: books, Finnish, Jyväskylä, Lola Rogers, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Pushkin Press, Secret Passages from a Hillside Town, Translation
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1917

Posted on 1 November 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

It’s a hundred years since the October Revolution. What was it really like at the time, when nobody knew how it would end? Was all the violence worth it? Was a new dawn really breaking? This hugely varied collection of…

Tagged with: 1917, books, Boris Dralyuk, Josh Briggs, Martha Kelly, Poetry, Pushkin Press, Robert Chandler, Russian, Russian Revolution, Translation
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Just ahead of the revolution

Posted on 15 March 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

“Moscow. Autumn. Cold. My Petersburg life has been liquidated.” If Twitter had been invented 100 years ago, perhaps Teffi would have had quite a following. She is certainly concise, doesn’t appear to take herself and her craft too seriously, but shares highly entertaining vignettes,…

Tagged with: 1917, Anne Marie Jackson, Elizabeth Chandler, Irina Steinberg, Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea, Pushkin Press, Robert Chandler, Russian, Russian Revolution, Teffi, Translation
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Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery

Posted on 8 January 2015 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 4 Comments

Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery, was the book I read by the Christmas tree this year; next year you could be doing the same. The splendid Pushkin Press has just bought the English rights. The author, the Swedish Finn…