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Women in Translation month 2021: a belated round-up

Posted on 9th Sep, 20218th Sep, 2021 by Helen Vassallo

August has come and gone, and with it another Women in Translation month. Instigated by Meytal Radzinski in 2014 to encourage more people to read…

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Review: ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro

Posted on 20th Aug, 202120th Aug, 2021 by Helen Vassallo

Translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Frances Riddle (Charco Press, 2021) This is the Charco book I was most looking forward to this year (and, if…

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Humanity in the face of atrocity: Nayrouz Qarmout, The Sea Cloak

Posted on 20th Aug, 201920th Aug, 2019 by Helen Vassallo

Translated from Arabic by Perween Richards (Comma Press, 2019) It’s fair to say that The Sea Cloak is one of my most anticipated books… ever.…

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20 books to inspire your summer reading

Posted on 19th Jul, 2019 by Helen Vassallo

I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks, and by the time I return Women in Translation Month will be in full swing. This…

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A delightfully subversive feast: Margarita García Robayo, Fish Soup

Posted on 28th Aug, 201825th Mar, 2019 by Helen Vassallo

Translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Coombe (Charco Press, 2018) Fish Soup is one of my favourite discoveries of 2018: in it, Charco Press brings…

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“Since I’d been born I’d been trying to get my mother to connect to life”: Nora Ikstena, Soviet Milk

Posted on 13th Aug, 2018 by Helen Vassallo

Translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis (Peirene, 2018) I’ve read a number of books published by Peirene (you can see them all in my…

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official_fozWill Forrester@official_foz·
3 Jan

Translators anywhere in the world: @englishpen's #PENPresents is now open for proposals to create sample translations of previously untranslated works

🔵 in any language
🔴 of any form & genre
🟠 from any region
🟣 of any era.

w/ @translatewomen.

https://t.co/oxLPV3mnz7

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GlobalLitinGlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative@GlobalLitin·
3 Jan

Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo, tr. by Charlotte Coombe – an entertaining story collection... probes corners of society that remain largely impenetrable. It’s unapologetic – as well as humorous & devastating in turn. A review:

https://t.co/RZkzDgP0D3

#ColombianLit #WIT

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ifru_londonInstitut français UK@ifru_london·
14 Dec

#BookOfTheWeek
Nina Bouraoui's Satisfaction is an intimate glimpse into Mme Akli's life, her thoughts, feelings & impressions in 1970s Algeria, exploring closure, desire & love gone astray

Satisfation, edited by @HeloisePress translated by @aneesa50abbas

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LLCatEdinburghLLCatEdinburgh@LLCatEdinburgh·
12 Dec

Earlier this year, we spoke to graduate @rosie_hedger who came to university after @LEAPS1996, fell in love with Norwegian, and became a literary translator. Rosie works almost exclusively with female writers, inc. @marieau and @HelgaFlatland. https://t.co/JyuoQah5nf #LuciaFest

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translatewomenTranslating Women@translatewomen·
9 Dec

Another Tilted triumph... just read Monique Ilboudo's SO DISTANT FROM MY LIFE, a pulsing yet sobering story of emigration attempts, family bonds, unexpected generosity & global indifference in a vibrant translation by Yarri Kamara. @TiltedAxisPress blazing a trail once again.

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