In 2018, I launched this blog with my first ever review: I wrote about Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, translated by Deborah Smith, published by the…
Category: Opinion post
On 6th October 2022, iconic French writer Annie Ernaux was announced as the 119th winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the 17th woman laureate…
Last week Geetanjali Shree’s novel Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize. Many media headlines have focused on…
I think this post has been a long time coming… I’m making a big change to the way I do the blog part of Translating…
Women in Translation: how to read the world differently This International Women’s Day I wrote a guest post for the Pan MacMillan publishing house, looking…
Today’s post is a little different from my usual ones, because I want to talk to you about a translated text coming out next week……
When I wrote my round-up of 2020, I had no idea that 2021 would be another year of restrictions and adaptations. I haven’t read as…
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I had intended to post this piece in December, but the end of the year brought some unexpected challenges and I had to delay it…
In my recent open letter, I talked about my belief that literature from other cultures – especially from marginalised voices – can be a crucial…