Tag Archives: And Other Stories

Tregian’s Ground

Posted on January 21, 2016 by forwardtranslations

I have just got to the end of Tregian’s Ground by Anne Cuneo, tr. Roland Glasser and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (And Other Stories, 2015). I had been wanting to read this since I first heard that And Other Stories were … Continue reading →

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ITD and ITI – a whirlwind weekend, part 1

Posted on October 6, 2015 by forwardtranslations

The past weekend was full of firsts for me – I was on the panel for one of the seminars at this year’s International Translation Day conference at the British Library; I attended the ITI German Network’s annual workshop and … Continue reading →

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Round-up of Random Recent Reads

Posted on July 7, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Just a few musings on books I’ve read but been too distracted to review properly: The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker, tr. David Colmer (Vintage). This won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It’s about a Dutch woman living in Wales … Continue reading →

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Captain of the Steppe by Oleg Pavlov, tr. Ian Appleby

Posted on October 28, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. One Spring, he decides to plant a field … Continue reading →

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Paradises by Iosi Havilio, tr. Beth Fowler

Posted on October 22, 2013 by forwardtranslations

My reading for Summer Reads reviews has so far focussed largely on translated titles, a lot of them from And Other Stories, and that’s not changed here. Paradises by Iosi Havilio, translated by Beth Fowler (And Other Stories, 2013), is … Continue reading →

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Quesadillas – Juan Pablo Villalobos, tr. Rosalind Harvey

Posted on October 7, 2013 by forwardtranslations

After the Writers’ Centre event on Quesadillas, I was longing to read the book so it was my first choice from the long list on offer for next year’s Summer Reads programme. I picked it up, headed for the nearest … 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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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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What Publishers Want

Posted on June 17, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Here’s another write-up of a seminar from the Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair in April. Rather grandly entitled “What Publishers Want”, the panel was made up of Jane Lawson from Doubleday/Transworld, representing large commercial publishing; Chad Post … Continue reading →

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