A strange tale indeed, this one. If you’ve seen Pan’s Labyrinth, you’ll know that it’s perfectly possible to mix the brutal history of the Spanish Civil War, magical realism, a tight rural community that blends into the wooded mountains and…
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The Winterlings
Tagged with: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, Samuel Rutter, Spanish, The Winterlings, Translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Posted in books, history, translation
The Transmigration of Bodies
Having a book subscription can be a bit hit and miss. The new book can be fascinating, and just right for you, but does it land on your doormat when you’re ready to read it? This week, the right thing…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Best Translated Book Award, Spanish, The Transmigration of Bodies, Translation, Yuri Herrera
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, translation
Lunatics, lovers and poets in translation
In honour of Shakespeare’s and Cervantes’ 400th anniversaries, twelve authors have written a new story inspired by their work – six each in English and Spanish – with an introduction by Salman Rushdie. As Rushdie points out, since England was still…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Cervantes, Christina MacSweeney, Deborah Levy, English, Kamila Shamsie, Nell Leyshon, Rosalind Harvey, Shakespeare, Soledad Puértolas, Spanish, Valeria Luiselli
Posted in books, literature, short stories, translation
Posted in books, literature, short stories, translation
Black flower
A book that can be turned upside down and read from back to front in another language can be a wonderful thing. Formats like that came through our door in my childhood home, but they were mostly bilingual Welsh-English leaflets…
Tagged with: Black Flower, Clare Sullivan, Irma Pineda, Natalia Toledo, native languages of the Americas, Ploughshares, Poetry, Spanish, Translation, Welsh, Zapotec
Posted in books, language, poetry, translation
Posted in books, language, poetry, translation
books and roses
St George is England’s patron saint – and Catalonia’s. April 23, his day is traditionally when Catalans celebrate all kinds of love, by giving red roses, as St George is supposed to have given one to the princess he saved from the…
Tagged with: books, Catalonia, Cervantes, Edith Grossmann, England, Matias de Velasco y Rojas, roses, Shakespeare, Spanish, Thomas Shelton, Translation, Vicete Clavel
Posted in international, literature
Posted in international, literature
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
Best translation of 2014? Ten days left to vote
What was last year’s best translation? You have a few days left to cast your vote here. This poll is more democratic than most, as the short list is extended by other people’s suggestions. If you were choosing by the author name alone, the…
Tagged with: Best translation of 2014, Guadalupe Nettel, J. T. Lichtenstein, Mexican, Natural Histories, Rosalind Harvey, Spanish, Translation, Typographical Era, Words without Borders
Posted in literature, translation
Posted in literature, translation
stories from home: books for unaccompanied migrant children
Reading stories in translation opens up the world to places you could never go to. For some people however, the place they can never go to is back home. More and more children are migrating into the US from Latin…
moral language?
If you speak a language well enough to get along, but not really well, it’s an effort. You need time to think and process and a lot of energy can go into making sure you get the grammar right. As…
Tagged with: Albert Costa, English, French, international, Korean, language learning, moral language, Spanish, Translation
Posted in international, language, translation
Posted in international, language, translation
time to relax: tina and mouse
Here in Finland, today is the start of ten loooooooooooong sunny weeks of school holidays – and we already have 22 hours of daylight at this time of year. Sadly, if most of your work comes from and goes to different countries, you…
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