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…
Tag: And Other Stories
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…
Claudia Hernández, Slash and Burn, translated from Spanish (El Salvador) by Julia Sanches (And Other Stories, 2021) Slash and Burn is the first novel in English…
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…
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”…
As many of you probably know, August is Women in Translation month, an initiative started and championed by Meytal Radzinski. In honour of this year’s…
In the springtime this year, I published a remarkable interview with translator Sophie Hughes. Shortly after Sophie’s interview I received a small grant to travel…
I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks, and by the time I return Women in Translation Month will be in full swing. This…
I’m delighted today to bring you an interview with Sophie Hughes. Sophie is the translator of Alia Trabucco Zerán’s The Remainder, which was published by And…
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:…