Monthly Archives: September 2013

Red Squirrels, Robins and Sapir-Whorf

Posted on September 18, 2013 by forwardtranslations

  When fils cadet was smaller, we used to go to a pre-school music group. Once there was a song about a red squirrel, with a beautiful puppet as a prop. “That’s not red, that’s orange!” objected fils cadet, quite … Continue reading →

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On Finding Inspiration in the Unlikeliest Places: Poetry Again

Posted on September 13, 2013 by forwardtranslations

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been trying to read poetry lately. And as the title of this post suggests, I’ve been finding inspiration for that endeavour in the unlikeliest of places. Not so long ago, I re-read Josephine Tey‘s To … Continue reading →

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The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars

Posted on September 11, 2013 by forwardtranslations

A little while ago, I went into the wonderful Book Hive in Norwich for a browse around. Upstairs by their front window, they had the most wonderful display of translated fiction, with books from Peirene, And Other Stories, Alma, Melville … Continue reading →

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Down the Rabbit Hole Again, but this time it’s what Alice found there…

Posted on September 10, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Fils aîné and I have just finished reading Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland together. I was never quite sure what he made of it, or how much he understood, given the old-fashioned language and so on. He never seemed … Continue reading →

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Quesadillas – Juan Pablo Villalobos in Norwich

Posted on September 5, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Excitement abounded on Tuesday evening when my friend Sarah and I headed into Norwich Waterstones to hear Juan Pablo Villalobos and translator Rosalind Harvey reading from Quesadillas, his new novel just published by And Other Stories, at an event put … Continue reading →

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