Dear friends, I hope you and your loved ones are all safe and well. The past week has seen an upheaval of life as we…
Category: Opinion post
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day, “Each for Equal”, ties in with the emphasis on intersectionality that is key to any kind of progressive…
2020 looks set to be an exciting year for women in translation: if, like me, you’re thinking about what your reading year will hold in…
For some time now, I’ve been lucky to work with feminist translation studies scholar Olga Castro on projects close to both our hearts: the most…
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…
Women in Translation month is in full swing, and following on from the individual book recommendations I gave in an earlier post, today I want…
Tonight the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize will be announced, and it’s something of a landmark year for women in translation. I…
The picks Last week saw the announcement of the Man Booker Prize longlist, and with it a remarkable and welcome surge of women in translation:…
I remember the first time I celebrated International Women’s Day: I was an earnest PhD student, my feminist sensibilities just awakening, and I went to…