Borders are on my mind right now. I live on an island, and so the borders of my homeland are physical; more importantly, they are…
Tag: women in translation
Translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle (Charco Press, 2018) The German Room is the final release of 2018 from Charco Press, and what a…
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (Portobello Books, 2016) Three generations of polar bears talk about their lives in this offbeat gem, winner of the…
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of talking to Nicky Smalley, publicist at And Other Stories, about their commitment to the Year of Publishing…
I’m delighted to welcome to the blog feminist translator Beatriz Regina Guimarães Barboza. You can find out more about Beatriz and her work on the…
On Monday this week, the longlist was announced for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. This is the second year of the prize, which…
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books, 2017) The White Book is a short meditation on mourning, as Han Kang explores through words…
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018 Man Booker International prizewinner Olga Tokarczuk returns with this crime-mystery-noir novel set in rural Poland.…
Translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Coombe (Charco Press, 2018) Fish Soup is one of my favourite discoveries of 2018: in it, Charco Press brings…
“Since I’d been born I’d been trying to get my mother to connect to life”: Nora Ikstena, Soviet Milk
Translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis (Peirene, 2018) I’ve read a number of books published by Peirene (you can see them all in my…