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Tag: Books in translation

Becoming and Belonging in Claudia Durastanti’s Strangers I Know

29th November 202229th November 2022  Vartika Rastogi

Claudia Durastanti’s luminous novel, Strangers I Know, traverses multiple identities, migrations and languages, and considers how ‘art can free an individual from difference, and difference from solitude’, writes Vartika Rastogi.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: autofiction, Books in translation, Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris, Fitzcarraldo, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Novel, Strangers I Know, translated fiction, Women in Translation

Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth – a rich, compelling and unsettling read

7th November 20227th November 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Vigdis Hjorth’s novel, Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, interrogates the cultural expectations placed on ‘woman’ and ‘mother’, and offers a stark and powerful addition to the growing body of ‘motherhood’ texts, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Charlotte Barslund, french feminism, Is Mother Dead, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Motherhood, translated fiction, Verso, Verso Books, Verso Fiction, Vigdis Hjorth, Women in Translation

The Essay, The Object and The Re-mix: de-centring the human in The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman review

15th May 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Lieke Marsman’s brilliantly ‘cool’ novel, The Opposite of a Person (translated by Sophie Collins), is at once a novel about love and language, people and the individual, nature and the ideas we wield over the natural world, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Daunt Books, Daunt Books Originals, Environment, Lieke Marsman, Novel, Sophie Collins, The Opposite of a Person, translated fiction

Interview with author Loranne Vella: ‘This idea of a room, of a home, is very important, as the body is the first home’

16th February 202217th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie talks to Maltese author and performer Loranne Vella about her collection of short fiction, what will it take for me to leave, the influence of performance on her work, memory as a liberating and imprisoning force, European feminism and her upcoming novel, Marta Marta.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Books, Books in translation, Elizabeth is Missing, Feminism, Jen Calleja, Julia Kristeva, Kat Storace, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Loranne Vella, Malta, Maltese fiction, Maltese Literature, Monique Wittig, My Body's Bodies Editorial, novels, Paul Preciado, Praspar Press, Short Stories, Simone de Beauvoir

Bringing the body to the text in Loranne Vella’s What Will It Take For Me To Leave

14th February 202215th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Bodies traverse histories, tap into memories and are saturated with feelings and experiences in Loranne Vella’s superb short fiction collection, What Will It Take For Me To Leave, translated by Kat Storace.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bodies, Books, Books in translation, Jen Calleja, Kat Storace, Loranne Vella, Maltese fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Praspar Press, short fiction, Short Stories, Translation, What Will It Take For Me To Leave, Zvezdan Reljić

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

12th November 202112th November 2021  Rym Kechacha

Rym Kechacha reviews The Books of Jacob: a wonderful, huge and complex book that asks the reader to “turn our gaze away from the simple”, and instead embrace flux, transformation, and narrative that “sprawls like a great tree’s roots”.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Jennifer Croft, Olga Tokarczuk, Polish literature, The Books of Jacob, translated fiction

The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression – an intellectual exploration of the personal at an arm’s length

21st June 202122nd June 2021  Jennifer Brough

Eva Meijer’s richly referenced musings illustrate the gaps in language when trying to distil the depressive experience.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Antoinette Fawcett, Book Review, Books in translation, depression, Eva Meijer, Language, Mental Health, Pushkin Press

In Memory of Memory: the fragmented story of a family’s century

17th June 202122nd June 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Maria Stepanova’s memoir, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale, weaves together storytelling, culture, art, and philosophy to form a mosaic image of her family’s history.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, family history, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Maria Stepanova, memoir, memory, Russian literature, Sasha Dugdale

Self Portrait in Green: a slippery snapshot of a search for self

7th June 20217th June 2021  Jennifer Brough

Marie NDiaye’s hazy novella, translated by Jordan Stump, unsettles the reader as much as the narrator in a mysterious memoir of strange encounters.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: autofiction, Book Review, Books in translation, Influx Press, Jordan Stump, Marie NDiaye, novella, Self Portrait in Green

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge: surreal and bizarrely beautiful

31st May 202131st May 2021  Yen Ooi

Yan Ge’s novel, translated by Jeremy Tiang, is a fantastical exploration of life, love, relationships, and the beast-like nature of humans.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Fiction, Jeremy Tiang, Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, Yan Ge

Two Latin American detective novels: turning the genre inside out

26th May 202131st May 2021  Selin Genc

Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, and Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro: two new translated books from Charco Press that are quirky, poignant, and very relevant for our times.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Charco Press, Christina Macsweeney, Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle, Karla Suárez, Latin American literature

Preview of Adorable by Ida Marie Hede translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg

28th March 202128th March 2021  Ida Marie Hede

In Ida Marie Hede’s stunningly haunting and humorous novel, Adorable, B and Q’s world changes with the birth of their first child Æ. Here, in a selection of passages from the first section of the novel, the messy birth of Æ and relationship B develops with her are told in gloriously rich detail.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Adorable, Books, Books in translation, Danish Literature, Ida Marie Hede, Lolli, Lolli Editions, maternity, Motherhood, preview, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, Translation

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