Crossing the Wine Dark Sea by Emily Wilson review – a masterclass in translation | Classics

Crossing the Wine Dark Sea by Emily Wilson review – a masterclass in translation | Classics

Emily Wilson’s translations of the Odyssey in 2017 and the Iliad in 2023 are now the standard English-language versions, acclaimed for their conciseness and fluency. Her infatuation with Homer began at the... Read more »
Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’ | Palestine

Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’ | Palestine

Intermezzo, the most recent book by Irish novelist Sally Rooney, will be published in Hebrew this month by the Israeli publisher November Books, in collaboration with +972 Magazine and Local Call. The... Read more »
Sally Rooney to publish Hebrew translation of novel with BDS-compliant publisher | Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney to publish Hebrew translation of novel with BDS-compliant publisher | Sally Rooney

The Irish novelist Sally Rooney is releasing a Hebrew translation of her latest novel more than four years after she turned down a translation of an earlier novel, citing her support for... Read more »
‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

A few weeks after the German publication of his debut novel in 2024, author Matthias Jügler received a call from an employee at the German government agency tasked with investigating the human rights... Read more »
Shahrnush Parsipur: ‘The women of Iran will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic’ | Fiction in translation

Shahrnush Parsipur: ‘The women of Iran will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic’ | Fiction in translation

As I write this, Iranians around the world are holding their breath for the end of the murderous Islamic Republic. More than three years after the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement began, amid renewed... Read more »
Hooked by Asako Yuzuki review – follow-up to global hit Butter | Fiction in translation

Hooked by Asako Yuzuki review – follow-up to global hit Butter | Fiction in translation

Asako Yuzuki’s international bestseller Butter was a taste sensation based on the true story of a Japanese female serial killer and gourmet chef who scammed and poisoned male victims with her culinary... Read more »
‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’ | Fiction in translation

The next time Japanese novelist Asako Yuzuki comes to the UK, she would like to bake some traditional Japanese muffins for Paul Hollywood on The Great British Bake Off, she says when we... Read more »
On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle review – how to make a timeloop endlessly interesting | Fiction in translation

On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle review – how to make a timeloop endlessly interesting | Fiction in translation

The time loop story, in which characters repeatedly relive the same span of time, has become synonymous with the 1993 film Groundhog Day, but the idea has much older roots. In PD... Read more »
Five of the best translated fiction of 2025 | Fiction in translation

Five of the best translated fiction of 2025 | Fiction in translation

We Do Not PartHan Kang, translated by e yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton)The Korean 2024 Nobel laureate combines the strangeness of The Vegetarian and the political history in Human Acts... Read more »
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