Is this an adventure novel, war memoir, seven short stories, or one of those new approaches to history through objects? It’s all that and more. The real protagonist is not a person, but a map. Do you know Rembrandt van…
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Women in Translation Month: The Map
Tagged with: books, Kate Webster, Mapa, Poland, Polish, Rembrandt, Terra Librorum, The Map, Translation, Women in Translation Month, Wydawnictwo Nisza
Posted in books, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, translation, Women in Translation Month
The memory police
They took the roses apart themselves, ripping them from their stems and casting the petals on the waters. Silently, purposefully. It was tragic, gardens shaped by decades of love and care destroyed in a moment, yet the people showed little…
Tagged with: International Booker, Japanese, Steven Snyder, The Memory Police, Translation, Women in Translation Month, Yoko Ogawa
Posted in books, Man Booker 2013, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, Man Booker 2013, translation, Women in Translation Month
Beginning to Speak
Diana is from Pontus, now in Georgia, once in Greece. So it’s no surprise she starts with Helen – she isn’t the first poet to do so and she surely won’t be the last: These poems are gloriously sensory and…
Tagged with: books, Diana Anphimiadi, Georgian, Jean Sprackland, Natalia Bukia-Peters, Poetry Translation Centre, Translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
The House in Norway
The artist has her own house, and feels invaded when other people move in – how is she going to work, now? Nordic people need their space, and women need room of their own to create. The forest grows right…
Tagged with: books, Charlotte Barslund, Norwegian, The House in Norway, Translation, Vigdis Hjorth, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, translation, Women in Translation Month
The True Deceiver
To start Women in Translation Month this year, I return to one of my favourite authors, whose birthday is next week. Tove Jansson never fails to make you think. This is about a woman artist who cannot escape her own…
Tagged with: Finland, Finnish Swedish, The True Deceiver, Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation
Posted in books, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation
Women in Translation Month: Marina Tsvetaeva
The age of the Russian Revolution produced some extraordinary poetry, and the women poets deserve better recognition. For spot-on quick-fire dispatches from a period of unprecedented change, try Teffi, but for poetry, try Tsvetaeva, who died 76 years ago today. Glagoslav…
Tagged with: Glasgoslav Publications, Marina Tsvetaeva, Michael Naydan, Poetry, Russian, Russian Revolution, Slava Yastremski, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation
Posted in books, gender, poetry, 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
Finland 100: The Red women
“So then they founded a women’s guard here, and anyhow I’m such an enthusiastic person so of course I went there first […] You can’t believe how enthusiastic I was about going to the front. Now I am going back…
Tagged with: books, Finland 100, Finnish civil war, gender, history, Punaisten naisten tiet, Red guard, Suomi100, Tiina Lintunen, Translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, gender, history, translation
Posted in books, gender, history, translation
Women in Translation Month: Ginczanka
Whenever I am in Warsaw, there are a couple of bookshops near the university that I have to visit. I always come out with something unexpected that keeps me going till I can come back to Poland. This time, the…
Tagged with: Marek Kamiński, Mądrość jak rozkosz, Poetry, Polish, Translation, Women in Translation Month, Zusanna Ginczanka
Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation
Posted in books, gender, poetry, translation
We need more Akhmatova
With some books, you have to be ready.This poet is one of Russia’s best, but it took me this long to sit down and read her. It’s time you did, too. Anna Akhmatova’s Selected Poems in Richard McKane’s English translation…
Tagged with: Anna Akhmatova, Bloodaxe Books, Poetry, Richard McKane, Russian, Translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, faith, history, literature, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, faith, history, literature, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
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