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
waiting for Christmas, Japanese style
Sometimes reading a new book is like meeting a new friend. Chika Sagawa was born over a century ago, and this new volume of her writing is slim, but it was enough to seal the friendship for me. It may…
Tagged with: Chika Sagawa, Collected Poems, Japanese, modernism, PEN, Poetry, Sawako Nakayasu, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
The city of woven streets
Travel to a world like ours, but different. Where you have to work to survive, but if there is the slightest suspicion that you’re not in your right mind, they’ll take you away, isolate you to stop the ‘disease’ spreading,…
Tagged with: Emmi Itäranta, Fantasy, Finnish, Kudottujen kujien kaupunki, The city of woven streets, The Weaver, Translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Searching for Sappho
New poems by a woman who died over two millennia ago – of course I was interested. And this book does get off to a cracking detective-like start, which reminded me of a book I loved, Sisters of Sinai: What happens after…
Tagged with: Anne Carson, Greek, Mary Barnard, Philip Freeman, Sappho, Searching for Sappho, Translation
Posted in books, gender, history, poetry, Uncategorized
Posted in books, gender, history, poetry, Uncategorized
Where do you really come from?
November 9 is a good date to mark German Literature Month; the day the monarchy ended, the day Hitler’s putsch failed, the night of the pogroms he instigated, the day the Berlin Wall came down… It wasn’t as easy as…
Naondel
Good things come to those who wait. I’m not the only one who has been waiting for the next volume of the Red Abbey trilogy to be published. Luckily Marja Kyrö’s Finnish translation of Maria Turtschaninoff’s Naondel came out with…
Tagged with: Annie Prime, Fantasy, Finnish, Maria Turtschaninoff, Marja Kyrö, Naondel, Red Abbey Chronicles, Swedish, Tammi, Translation, Ursula le Guin, YA
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
this woman has the password to your relationship…
“It’s as though you had to know the password for our relationship.” Looks like Emmanuelle Pagano has got everyone’s password! Translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins have done sterling work on the files. And Other Stories has done it again with…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Emmanuelle Pagano, French, Jennifer Higgins, Sophie Lewis, Translation
Posted in books, gender, literature, translation
Posted in books, gender, literature, translation
A prickly translation: The hour of the star
“I write because I’m desperate and I’m tired, I can no longer bear the routine of being me and if not for the always novelty that is writing, I would die symbolically every day. But I am prepared to slip…
Tagged with: Benjamin Moser, Brazil, Brazilian Portuguese, Clarice Lispector, Rio di Janiero, The Hour of the Star, Translation
Posted in books, literature, Uncategorized
Posted in books, literature, Uncategorized
stories from Abulafia Street
The Short Story Project brings you a new story every week from around the globe, online, for free. The stories are in Hebrew, English and the language of origin, and best of all, you can listen or read, so the app…
ITD 2016: Connecting worlds, from your food to your feet
What do translators and interpreters do all day? They connect worlds, so people can understand and learn from each other, to benefit everyone. That’s the theme for International Translation Day 2016, which is this Friday. It’s easy to get involved and help the communities that need…
Tagged with: connecting worlds, International Translation Day, Translation, Words without Borders
Posted in international, translation
Posted in international, translation
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