Blog: April 2011
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Elephants, mackerel and twisted knickers: the joys of translating...
Posted 27 April 2011 Imagine one day you're talking to an Italian woman and you say something insensitive. All of a sudden she turns on you, shouting 'I've got the devil for hair!' What... Read 'Elephants, mackerel and twisted knickers: the...' -
Five books about Russia
Posted 19 April 2011 With the upcoming Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announcement next month, we thought it ample opportunity to draw your attention to other books in translation. When we talk about 'State-of-the-nation'... Read 'Five books about Russia ' -
Five great Holocaust books
Posted 14 April 2011 How do you define 'Holocaust literature'? The idea itself seems absurd, if not obscene; but the efforts of writers and philosophers to understand one of the most incomprehensible events in... Read 'Five great Holocaust books ' -
Robert Burdock on the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist
Posted 13 April 2011 In celebration of this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, we thought it'd be nice to hear from the best bloggers and twitterers of literature in translation (aside from our own... Read 'Robert Burdock on the Independent Foreign...' -
Emma Langley: All the better to translate you with...
Posted 1 April 2011 Little Red Hood arrived on my desk about this time last year. From a scribbled mass of graffiti-esque red crayon and black ink, out walked the protagonist of our first... Read 'Emma Langley: All the better to...'
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