I was delighted to talk about the Translating Women project last week at Gŵyl, an online festival of literature in translation hosted by Caitlin Van…
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I’m excited today to bring you the first in a 3-part series of interviews about a new Montegrin book and its journey to publication. Olja…
Dear friends, With apologies for sending you two messages in one day, this is a brief update to today’s post: the video review does not…
A couple of months ago, I wrote about how the lockdown would change the way I provide content on the Translating Women blog. In that…
Earlier this year, Les Fugitives published the final book in a trilogy of studies by Nathalie Léger. The first, Suite for Barbara Loden, translated by…
Translated from French by Adriana Hunter (Harvill Secker, 2020) All About Sarah is Pauline Delabroy-Allard’s powerful debut novel about love: love as an all-consuming force,…
In my recent open letter, I talked about my belief that literature from other cultures – especially from marginalised voices – can be a crucial…
Translated from French by Tina Kover (Snuggly Books, 2018) This is the final instalment in a trilogy of reviews of translations by women I met at…
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…
Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions, 2019) A Girl Returned is an intense and affecting account of how a life can change forever…