Translated from Spanish (Cuba) by Christina MacSweeney (Charco Press, 2021) I’m always excited to receive a new book from Charco Press, and they kick off…
Translated from French by Tina Kover (Europa Editions, 2021) A Beast in Paradise is the English-language debut of Cécile Coulon, and deals with the tragedy…
Translated from French by Frank Wynne (Picador Books, 2021) Alice Zeniter’s multi-generational narrative The Art of Losing deals with the troubled legacy of the Algerian…
Translated from Spanish (Ecuador) by Frances Riddle (Influx Press, 2021) Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero, and comprises…
How much do you know about Maltese literature? My own answer: embarrassingly little (all the more shameful given that I’m part Maltese). But that’s set…
Edited by Maesy Ang and Teddy W. Kusuma (Comma Press, 2020) The Book of Jakarta is the latest addition to the Reading the City series…
I had intended to post this piece in December, but the end of the year brought some unexpected challenges and I had to delay it…
Esther Kinsky, Grove, translated from German by Caroline Schmidt (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) Grove is a story of mourning: the narrator has recently lost her love, and…
Claudia Hernández, Slash and Burn, translated from Spanish (El Salvador) by Julia Sanches (And Other Stories, 2021) Slash and Burn is the first novel in English…
Translated from German (Georgia) by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin (Scribe Books, 2019) The prize ceremony for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation will…