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‘animalinside’ and ‘Diplomat, Actor, Translator, Spy’ (Review)
One of the perks of blogging is that sometimes people send you stuff unexpectedly, and that’s especially good when it’s books in your area of interest. Recently, Daniel Medin, from the Center for...
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‘Shades of the Other Shore’ and ‘Ballade Nocturne’ (Review)
It’s been a while, but I’ve finally found a few hours to devote to the other two beautiful Cahiers I received from Daniel Medin at the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of...
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‘The Tilted Cup: Noh Stories’ by Paul Griffiths (Review)
While Bellezza’s Japanese Literature Challenge 8 has been running for almost two months now, thus far I haven’t really been able to contribute much. Today’s post, though, is an attempt to rectify...
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‘Angry in Piraeus’ by Maureen Freely (Review)
In addition to reading fiction in translation, I quite enjoy hearing from the people involved in the field, and The Cahiers Series, the collection of beautiful coffee-table works published by Sylph...
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‘The Swan Whisperer’ by Marlene Van Niekerk / ‘Translator’s Blues’ by Franco...
One of my resolutions for the blog this year was to post at least once a month on a work that *wasn’t* translated into English (see my annual awards post for more on my own version of the 3% problem…),...
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‘To Begin at the Beginning’ by Javier Marías &‘The Story Smuggler’ by Georgi...
It’s always a pleasure to see the latest review copies from The Cahiers Series drop through my letterbox, but the most recent additions to the collection took that emotion up a notch. As well as a...
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‘QWERTY Invectives’ by Éric Chevillard (Review)
After reading (and rereading) a number of longish, dense works recently, I felt the need for something a little lighter, and when it comes to short, entertaining works (often in translation), you can’t...
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‘Going Where’ by Olga Medvedkova &‘Loss Sings’ by James E. Montgomery (Review)
I usually enjoy the short books from the Cahiers Series (a joint venture between Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris), so I’ve been meaning...
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‘A General Practice’ by Anna-Louise Milne &‘Quarry’ by Rachel Cusk (Review)
I recently received copies of the latest additions to the Cahiers Series (a joint venture between Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris), a...
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‘Temporale’ by Marina Warner (Review)
Those of you with long memories may recall that I’ve posted a number of times on books from the Cahiers Series (a joint venture between Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers & Translators at...
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