Translated from French by Willard Wood (Les Fugitives, 2020) Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is a work of non-fiction that delves into the life of Marie…
Category: Review
It was a great honour last week to chair the virtual launch of Holiday Heart, interviewing author Margarita García Robayo and translator Charlotte Coombe for…
Edited by Dai Congrong and Jin Li (Comma Press, 2020) Featuring Wang Anyi, Xiao Bai, Shen Dacheng, Chen Danyan, Cai Jun, Chen Qiufan, Xia Shang,…
Translated from Spanish (Colombia) by Charlotte Coombe (Charco Press, 2020) *Details of the virtual launch of Holiday Heart at the end of this post (or…
Translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul (Tilted Axis Press, 2020) Arid Dreams is the latest offering from Tilted Axis Press, and part of a very strong…
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,…
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…
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…