Blog: May 2011
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Spotlight on the Shortlist: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011
Posted 26 May 2011 Last night I attended a panel discussion on the six titles shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize . With news that volcanic ash had disrupted a number of flights... Read 'Spotlight on the Shortlist: Independent Foreign...' -
Translators make noise at the book fair
Posted 6 May 2011 When I arrived at the London Book Fair last Monday morning and went in search of the Literary Translation Centre, I wondered if its location said something about the place... Read 'Translators make noise at the book...' -
Top four books of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Posted 5 May 2011 The Austro-Hungarian Empire rose out of the Nineteenth Century and barely made it into the Twentieth. Improbable, fragile and ultimately doomed, it brought together a bewildering multiplicity of national, ethnic... Read 'Top four books of the Austro-Hungarian...'
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