Tag Archives: literature

Post-Referendum Reading – Vigilante

Posted on August 3, 2016 by forwardtranslations

I haven’t been reading much lately, or it’s been taking me much longer to get through books than usual. There are all sorts of reasons for this, to do with family life, too much time on social media or playing … Continue reading →

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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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Miss Queenie Hennessey and Mr Harold Fry

Posted on October 21, 2015 by forwardtranslations

I finished reading Rachel Joyce’s The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey (Transworld, 2014) a little while ago. There haven’t been as many book reviews on here as I’d like lately, because of the summer holidays, and trying to move … 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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On being more than a dictionary: translators as poets

Posted on October 4, 2015 by forwardtranslations

I’ve just got back from a weekend of translation events, socialising, networking. There was the annual International Translation Day conference at the British Library, and then there was the ITI German network workshop. They were both great events and I … Continue reading →

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Aufräumen – Angelika Waldis

Posted on August 21, 2015 by forwardtranslations

Aufräumen (Piper Verlag, 2014) means “to tidy up”, and Luisa is having a clear-out. But the first thing that needs to go is her husband Alfred – an “artist”, who despises yet sponges off her – after almost 40 years … Continue reading →

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Very Subtly Worded Indeed

Posted on June 4, 2015 by forwardtranslations

In her day, Teffi was a literary superstar, writes Anne-Marie Jackson in her introduction to Subtly Worded, a beautiful collection of short stories, published last year by Pushkin Press. It’s easy to see why, because these are witty, yet thought-provoking … Continue reading →

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Ramblings around Wolf Hall

Posted on May 14, 2015 by forwardtranslations

There are many reasons why I haven’t been keeping up with the blogging as much as I’d like lately, to do with work, life and one thing and another, but one big one is that it has taken me a … Continue reading →

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London Book Fair Musings

Posted on April 21, 2015 by forwardtranslations

The London Book Fair has been and gone again. It was exhausting, but fun, and I’ll write up some of the individual sessions in the next little while, but first I wanted to put down a few impressions and share … Continue reading →

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Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens by Michael Kampfmüller

Posted on January 26, 2015 by forwardtranslations

One of the pile of new books I got for Christmas was Michael Kampfmüller’s Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens, inspired by a glowing review in New Books in German a few years back. It sums the book up much better than … Continue reading →

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