This is one of those books you start reading because you feel you ought to, because everyone tells you you really should, which is actually rather annoying, and you’re pretty sure it’s not your thing, it’s the sort of thing…
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Finland 100: Unknown Soldiers
Tagged with: Finland 100, Finnish, Liesl Yamaguchi, Second World War, Suomi100, Translation, Tuntematon sotilas, Unknown Soldiers, Väinö Linna
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Posted in books, Finland 100, history, Suomi 100, translation
1917
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
Posted in books, history, translation
Posted in books, history, translation
The Coast Road
The first ever Warwick Prize for Women in Translation short list presents tough competition (not least with Memoirs of A Polar Bear and Second Hand Time) but The Coast Road (The Gallery Press, 2016) is extraordinary. A host of translators offer…
Tagged with: Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Alan Gillis, Billy Ramsell, David Wheatley, Ireland, Irish Gaelic, John McAuliffe, Justin Quinn, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Coady, Michelle O’Sullivan, Paul Muldoon, Peter Fallon, Peter Sirr, Poetry, The Coast Road, The Gallery Press, Tom French, Translation, Vona Groarke, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Finland 100: Norma
“The past is the past. No good will come of digging it up.” The story starts with a funeral. Norma Ross’s mother is run over by an underground train in the middle of Kallio, Helsinki’s Kreuzberg. Was it suicide or…
Tagged with: books, Finland 100, Finnish, Norma, Owen Witesman, Penguin, Sofi Oksanen, Suomi100, Translation
Posted in books, Finland 100, gender, translation
Posted in books, Finland 100, gender, translation
Things that Happen
Poems from the heart of the city, written in a language that doesn’t get translated nearly often enough, Bengali. Bhaskar Chakrabarti writes about the ordinary life he sees from his window in Kolkata, and Arunava Sinha’s is the first major…
Tagged with: Arunava Sinha, Bengali, Bhaskar Chakrabarti, books, India, Kolkata, Poetry, Seagull Books, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
The Gurugu Pledge
The stories start long before they even try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Telling them on the mountain takes time and trust. Sometimes it’s better to wait until the lights go out, but then the griots to get going: This…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Barcelona, books, Equatorial Guinea, Jethro Soutar, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Morocco, Spanish, The Gurugu Pledge, Translation
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Posted in books, translation
The private lives of Barcelona
Barcelona is changing. The socialists are on the rise, the ruling class is in decline, and the Catholic Church with it. Modern women are doing things their mothers would never have dreamed of doing, let alone in public. More and…
Tagged with: Archipelago Books, Barcelona, books, Catalan, Josep Maria de Sagarra, La Central, Literature, Mary Ann Newman, Private Life, Spanish, Translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich’s first book is the latest to be (re-)translated into English, in the wake of her Nobel Prize win. It tells a story that stretches back over a century – Russian women fought against Napoleon too, as Alexievich notes…
Tagged with: Belarus, books, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Russian, Soviet Union, Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
The Dove’s Necklace
Last weekend marked the end of Eid al-Adha, when millions of pilgrims gathered in Mecca. In this story, one man makes his way into the Kaaba itself… This story starts with the city: not the pilgrims, but the women and…
Tagged with: Adam Talib, Arabic, International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Katharine Halls, Mecca, Raja Alem, Saudi Arabia, The Dove's Necklace, Translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Women in Translation Month: Recitation
When you’ve lived away from home for a long time, home can be anywhere. If you move around a lot, the places of transit themselves, airports and train stations, can feel the most homelike of all. People may easily mistake…
Tagged with: Bae Suah, Berlin, books, Deborah Smith, Deep Vellum, Korean, Recitation, Translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, international, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, international, translation, Women in Translation Month
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