Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation, tr. Susan Bernofsky (Portobello Books) Mariana Enriquez, Things We Lost in the Fire, tr. Megan McDowell (Portobello Books) Leonard and Hungry Paul,…
I’m delighted to welcome a new guest contributor to the blog: Julia Sutton-Mattocks won the 2017 Susanna Roth Translation Competition for her translation of Bianca…
Translated from the French by Tanya Leslie, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019 In this short, stark book, Annie Ernaux reconstructs her experience of a clandestine abortion in…
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (OneWorld, forthcoming February 2019) Acclaimed Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin returns with this eerie collection of short stories brimming…
Translated from the Spanish by Achy Obejas (And Other Stories, 2018) Tentacle was the final book released by And Other Stories in the Year of…
I always make new year’s resolutions. Not in a “go to the gym, learn a new skill, tick something off the bucket list” kind of…
End-of-year compilations are abundant at the moment, and after an exciting year – generally, with the Year of Publishing Women, and personally, with the development…
Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha (Tilted Axis Press, 2016 and 2017) When I first started browsing the Tilted Axis catalogue, I was intrigued…
Translated from the Korean by Emily Yae Won (Tilted Axis Press, 2018) I’ll Go On was the final 2018 release in my Tilted Axis subscription,…
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…