Reading a novel from every nation state (possible) đź“š
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2 Aug 2023
Don't know where to start for #WITMonth? I might have a couple (ok, more than a couple) of recommendations for you... findingtimetowrite.wordpress…
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WorldInTranslation retweeted
2 Aug 2023
his playing has become so transparent, so imbued with what he is interpreting, that one no longer sees the performer himself—he is simply a window opening upon a great work of art
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WorldInTranslation retweeted
2 Aug 2023
One of the 20th century’s great poems, on which Donald Justice played an inspired variation.
1 Aug 2023
César Vallejo from Bob Hass’s talk on translation at Napa Valley Writer’s Conference.
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17 Jul 2023
Fiction from Thailand. Venom by Saneh Sangsuk, translated by Mui Poopoksakul.
A short novel about snakes!
#thaifiction #fiction #novella #reading
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4 Jun 2023
Monique Ilboudo’s So Distant From My Life, translated by Yarri Kamara & published by @tiltedaxisbooks
This story is about a young man who takes his opportunity to move to another country, a story of why that’s difficult. #novel #fiction #booktwt #BurkinaFaso
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WorldInTranslation retweeted
10 May 2023
“My strange, distant feet walked. The child lay like a shadow in the cot as I opened the door.” Fiction by Olga Ravn. nyer.cm/avfqnJ4
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9 May 2023
A little break from translated fiction to read Lucy by The Sea by Elizabeth Strout (published by @VikingBooks). The 3rd pandemic novel I’ve read, more direct than the others, is taking me back to the bewildered disorientation of 2020.
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3 May 2023
This World Does Not Belong To Us by Natalia Garcia Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft and published in 2022 by @OneworldNews.
Characterised by a looming dread, this is a well written horror focused on Lucas, who has returned home. #Ecuador #fiction #novel
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16 Apr 2023
Voices of the Lost by Lebanese author Hoda Bakarat, translated by Marilyn Booth. This edition was published by @OneworldNews in English in 2021.
A quick read with displacement as a central theme. I enjoyed the narrative structure, particularly in the first part of the book.
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26 Mar 2023
The Blunder by Mutt-Lon, translated from French by Amy B Reid and published by Amazon Crossing in 2022.
A short satire, set mainly in the 1920s, about colonialism, racial stereotyping and medicine. Unsettling and unfortunately familiar #Cameroon #fiction #novel #translation
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12 Mar 2023
The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated by Elizabeth Heighway, published by @PeirenePress in 2020.
Quite a violent novel about assault and neglect, centred around Lela, an orphan at a residential school. Grim with a great end. #BookTwitter #novel #fiction
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12 Mar 2023
I’ve been enjoying @realmagicbooks, a great addition to Wendover’s high street.
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26 Feb 2023
What book would you recommend for a discerning 11 year old who loves The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis and Tom’s Midnight Garden?
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WorldInTranslation retweeted
23 Feb 2023
more Lisel Mueller
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WorldInTranslation retweeted
24 Feb 2023
Today is the anniversary of the launch of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—and the birthday of Weldon Kees, a poet keenly sensitive to the catastrophes of his era. The refugee in this poem is, by ironic etymology, “the home of man”; he’s based on Wolfgang Born, emigre artist.
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23 Feb 2023
A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by László Krasznahorkai, translated from #hungarian by Ottile Mulzet. This edition was published by Tuskar Rock Press/ @ProfileBooks
#hungarianfiction #novel #BookTwitter #translationthurs
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WorldInTranslation retweeted
15 Jan 2023
Back on the blog after a long hiatus, with an excerpt from a 2012 North Korean novel depicting deadly bromance between Kim Il Sung and #CheGuevara! #NorthKorea #fiction #literature #Diplomacy dprklit.blogspot.com/2023/01…
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14 Jan 2023
Seasons in Hippoland by Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, an author from Kenya. This book was written in English and published by @seagullbooks.
I liked this book, with a focus on storytelling and it’s power, family, radicalism, action, justice. #fiction #booktwt #novels
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1 Jan 2023
An incomplete summary of 2022. Books from ~24 countries for #readingtheworld, some others by authors I enjoy, a few impulsive purchases, a few I should have read years ago and a few chosen by my book group. #reading2022 #goodbye2022 #fiction #novel #novella #shortstories
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