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Women in Translation Month 2019: 10 Books

Posted on August 4, 2019 by forwardtranslations

Looking back through my blog for this, I see that Women in Translation Month is one thing that has prompted a regular post (once a year is regular!) in recent years. This year, it seems to have really taken off … Continue reading →

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February Reads

Posted on March 6, 2019 by forwardtranslations

So I didn’t read as much as I’d have liked in February, but there were some exciting things all the same. I got to read Simone Buchholz’s Mexikoring, on which more later… Watch this space! Likewise, Zugmaus by Uwe Timm, illustrated by … Continue reading →

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January 2019 Reads

Posted on February 3, 2019 by forwardtranslations

I don’t know quite how it got to be 2019 when I wasn’t looking, and I don’t seem to manage regularly reviews any more, but I’m hopeful that semi-regularly round-ups of what I’ve been reading lately might be more doable… … Continue reading →

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Hotel Alpha by Mark Watson

Posted on July 10, 2018 by forwardtranslations

I was fortunate enough to win a signed proof copy of Mark Watson’s novel Hotel Alpha just before it was published by Picador in 2014. For one reason or another, the book languished on a TBR pile (although my husband … Continue reading →

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Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

Posted on April 2, 2018 by forwardtranslations

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society … Continue reading →

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On Reviewing – Translations and Other Things

Posted on March 26, 2018 by forwardtranslations

There are several controversies/discussions/debates swirling around my Twitter at the moment which are at least partly related. There are issues about how to review translations, what to do if you think a translation is flawed or poor, and about whether … Continue reading →

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Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans

Posted on February 19, 2018 by forwardtranslations

The boys had book vouchers to spend over half term, which prompted a whole set of agonising – first Son2 wanted to buy Lego models instead, and then to spend his share on Star Wars encyclopedias, and then Son1 wanted … Continue reading →

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The Taming of the Queen

Posted on February 18, 2018 by forwardtranslations

A lot of energy has been expended by other people in wondering why we remain so fascinated by the Tudor period. It’s one I mainly know through historical fiction and TV documentaries, like many of us, and I’ve enjoyed most … Continue reading →

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On the Improbability of Butterflies

Posted on February 6, 2018 by forwardtranslations

I don’t know whether the similarities between Hanni Münzer’s Solange es Schmetterlinge gibt and Hannah Rothschild’s The Improbability of Love (Bloomsbury, 2015) would have struck me so clearly if I hadn’t read them one after the other. Both feature a … Continue reading →

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This Little Art

Posted on January 9, 2018 by forwardtranslations

Like much of the rest of the (literary) translation world, I have been reading and enjoying Kate Briggs’ essay This Little Art, recently published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. It is her obviously, unambiguously and unashamedly personal and subjective thinking on translation … Continue reading →

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