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‘Wasn’t travel the highest form of rebellion?’ Novelist Hanan Al-Shaykh’s wondrous @BanipalMagazine lecture @britishlibrary last night, on her unfettered travels through the worlds of #Arabic and other #literatures. @starbie99 @arablit #writersintranslation #womenintranslation
Wonderful news! 'The Devils' Dance', translated by Donald Rayfield and published by @TiltedAxisPress , makes the shortlist for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize.
Congrats to @ismailov_writer! We loved this book.
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#Uzbekistan
Drum roll, people. We hereby present the finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize . Biggest congratulations @PeirenePress @FitzcarraldoEds @TiltedAxisPress . These are beautiful books, perfectly formed and then midwifed to translation. Read. Tell us what you think.
Excited be working with @brightfest this year! Tickets on sale from next Friday... #Brighton #WritersAtRisk #WritersInTranslation
Only 1 week to go until you can get your hands on tickets for this year's Festival! If you haven't already - pick up a brochure at Brighton Dome.
Tickets on sale: 9am Fri 22 Feb
Victoria de Stefano: An Extract from Lluvia [Rain] / "He runs outside and, in the light of the crescent moon, makes a lap of the patio. He bows his head and begins to strike it repeatedly with the flat of his hand".
https://t.co/2gMXclYW6X
The English translation of Muhammad Abdelnabi's 'In the Spider's Room' - shortlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction - is now out in the UK! Translated by Jonathan Wright.
#WritersInTranslation
https://t.co/9iRAvAFCE3
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Great initiative from @PeirenePress for #WorldRefugeeWeek 👏👏👏
50p from every book sold this week goes to charity to support refugees AND for 1 DAY ONLY for #WorldRefugeeDay ALL BOOKS ARE ON SALE - check out #ShatilaStories and #UnderTheTripoliSky for #WritersInTranslation 👇 https://t.co/3zC4LYy9Ol
Peirene donates 50p from every book to charity to support refugees @RefugeeWeek
So, for #WorldRefugeeDay, since 50p from every single book goes to charity... we've put EVERY SINGLE BOOK on SALE for ONE DAY ONLY including #ShatilaStories!
Get your books: https://t.co/tR4fGkRiDC
New issue out today of @englishpen's fab new online zine! 👏
#writersintranslation https://t.co/Uw0niInzWG
From heroic narratives to fragmented memories, how do we incorporate the past into our writing? PEN Transmissions Issue 3 is LIVE! 'Writing the past' feat. Peter Kimani, Doaa Mohaisen, Norman Erikson Pasaribu & Javier Cercas: https://t.co/snb94ndVe6 #PENTransmissions #Translation
Ondjaki is the pen name of Ndalu de Almeida, an Angolan writer based in #RiodeJaneiro. His magical realist novel, 'Transparent City'- set in Luanda, Angola - is now available in English, published by @biblioasis and translated by @StephenHenighan
#Angola
#WritersInTranslation https://t.co/sbOuyEZtpn
"His shape-shifting prose has a lighter touch than the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but like the Colombian master, Ondjaki uses magic realism as a playful and blistering indictment against the tyrannical state" Ondjaki is finally available in English!
https://t.co/pcuLO2Z07n
Beyond #Borges – the April issue of the online magazine from Words without Borders features some great articles and fiction on and from #Argentina #writersintranslation
https://t.co/0KTdtzkHLH
Ismail Kadare’s first and only collection of essays, trans. into English by @ani_kokobobo, on #worldliterature and canonical literary figures (Shakespeare, Dante, Aeschylus) in the context of Albanian intellectual and mytho-historical imaginaries.
#Albania
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Lydie Salvayre’s 'Cry, Mother Spain' is a novel about the Spanish civil war. Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2014 as 'Pas pleurer' & an English PEN Translates Award in 2015. Translator Ben Faccini discusses translating fragnol:
https://t.co/hUZ9uA0IIe
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Recommended translated fiction from #Argentina: check out Mariana Enriquez's 'thrilling & terrifying' collection of short stories, 'Things We Lost in the Fire' - published by @PortobelloBooks and translated by Megan McDowell.
https://t.co/hKvuVLohnp
#writersintranslation
Check out the new wave of translated Korean fiction following the success of Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian'.
#writersintranslation https://t.co/FjB8fB693s
How exciting! Recent global successes have led to a new wave of Korean fiction in #translation! https://t.co/uSNv5EcQWS
Thanks to all who attended the launch of Lancaster University's Student PEN today! Looking forward to more events and campaigning for freedom of expression.
#literature #humanrights #writersintranslation
Reading through the reviews of One night, Markovitch for an assignment. Boy, am I sold on this novel! #Pushkinpress #writersintranslation
Just finished Life from Elsewhere, wonderful essay collection marking 10th anniversary of @EnglishPEN's #WritersInTranslation @PushkinPress
Getting very interested in writers from the Arabic world. Reading Ahdaf Soueif right now. #writersintranslation
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