Earlier this year, literary translators Charlie Coombe and Tina Kover set up Translators Aloud, a YouTube channel dedicated to putting translators in the spotlight. The…
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Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein (Seven Stories Press, 2020) This week the new UK imprint of Seven Stories Press releases Nadia Terranova’s English-language debut,…
Translated from German by Sinéad Crowe (V&Q Books, 2020) The new English-language imprint of V&Q Books offers another belter for its launch: following on from…
Translated from German by Katy Derbyshire (V&Q Books, 2020) This week sees the launch of German publisher V&Q’s English-language imprint: spearheaded by Katy Derbyshire, the…
Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions, 2020) I’m going to start this review with a confession: until last month, I had never read…
Translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Annie McDermott (Charco Press, 2020) After the success of Selva Almada’s English-language debut The Wind That Lays Waste (translated by…
Translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador Books, 2020) Breasts and Eggs is a spectacular and delicate exposition of what it is…
Translated from Spanish (Mexico) by Suzanne Jill Levine (Seven Stories Press, 2020) This collection of short stories from acclaimed Mexican author Guadalupe Nettel is the…
Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker (Jantar Publishing, 2017) Three Plastic Rooms is narrated by an ageing prostitute, and is an extended internal monologue that…
Translated from Catalan by Kathleen McNerney and Helena Buffery (Francis Boutle Publishers, 2020) This is a very different kind of novel from those I normally…