Tag Archives: German books

Shoulda, woulda, coulda: On oughts and wants and my taste in books and translation

Posted on May 13, 2014 by forwardtranslations

My note-taking at this year’s London Book Fair wasn’t all that it might have been, so I’m not sure who it was who said there are too many “shoulds” and “oughts” around literature in general, and in translation in particular … Continue reading →

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Snow White Must Die

Posted on February 12, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus, translated from German by Steven T. Murray (Pan Macmillan, 2012), certainly benefits from an eyecatching title and cover as well as “international bestseller status” and inclusion in Richard and Judy’s Book Club. Weirdly, … Continue reading →

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Love Virtually: an epistolary novel for the 21st century

Posted on February 11, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer, translated by Jamie Bulloch and Katharina Bielenberg (MacLehose Press, 2012) is another book I’d been really keen to read for ages, and is the sort of thing I want to see more of in translation: … Continue reading →

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Grimm Tales for Young and Old – Philip Pullman

Posted on January 24, 2014 by forwardtranslations

So, I keep saying that I’ll get back to blogging, and I keep not. If you’re hanging in there, thank you! Life has been unsettling lately, and since Christmas, work has been busy too – I’m not complaining, mark you! … Continue reading →

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Journey into the Past – Stefan Zweig

Posted on August 22, 2013 by forwardtranslations

I took a mountain of books on holiday with me and came back with two I really wanted to write about. Then life got in the way for a bit. Now I need to get on with it before I … Continue reading →

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Zbinden’s Progress

Posted on June 3, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Zbinden’s Progress by Christoph Simon and translated by Donal McLaughlin (And Other Stories, 2012) has been on my radar as something I wanted to read for a long time. Then I won an e-book of it from the nice people … Continue reading →

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An oddly unsettling children’s book

Posted on June 2, 2013 by forwardtranslations

I picked up an odd little book in Foyles a while ago – a German picture book called Kurz nach sechs kommt die Echs by Nadina Budde and published by Peter Hammer Verlag. It stars a rather depresed looking lizard … Continue reading →

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EXCESS – The Art of Treason by Mathias Frey

Posted on May 24, 2013 by forwardtranslations

After six months or so of work my translation of Mathias Frey’s self-published political thriller EXCESS – The Art of Treason has now finally gone live on Kindle. Translating a book by an indie author, with the translation also to … Continue reading →

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The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke

Posted on April 28, 2013 by forwardtranslations

I have been sadly neglecting the blog for the last little while due to an overload of work, but am slowly emerging and hoping to start getting back on top of things again now. Knowing that I had a two-hour … Continue reading →

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Excitements and Excess in Translation

Posted on April 11, 2013 by forwardtranslations

The end is finally in sight with the project I’ve been working on for some time now. My translation of Excess by Mathias Frey – a political/conspiracy thriller, if you were wondering –  is nearly finished. There’s lots of excitement, … Continue reading →

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