Translated from Welsh by Gwen Davies, Honno Press (2019) When I received The Jeweller, I was shocked to realise it’s the first book I’ve ever…
Month: October 2019
Nicky Smalley is publicist at the pioneering independent publishing house And Other Stories, who champion translated literature and who publicly took up Kamila Shamsie’s “provocation”…
Jen Calleja is a translator from German to English, and a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. She was the inaugural Translator in Residence…
Yesterday Olga Tokarczuk was announced as the winner of the (delayed) 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. I’m not going to linger on the reasons for…
Translated from Croatian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorič (Istros Books, 2019). Wild Woman is set in 1970s Yugoslavia, and we meet the narrator on the third day…
Becca Parkinson and Zoë Turner work at Manchester-based publishing house Comma Press, where Becca is Engagement Manager and Zoë is Publicity and Outreach Officer. Comma…