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Aug 1, 2019
My #WITMonth Recommendations
With the arrival of August comes the beginning of Women in Translation Month, dedicated to celebrating, promoting and reading women in...
Apr 23, 2019
Northern Ireland: the Booker and Beyond
In October of 2018, Anna Burns became the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Man Booker Prize, with her Troubles-set novel...
Jun 29, 2017
Corbyn, Achebe and Orwell
With chants of ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ ringing out around Glastonbury last weekend, the formerly unpopular Labour leader is the man of the...
May 17, 2017
Athletic and the Chocolate Brownie
Following on from the previous post, in this entry I am delighted to present my own translation of an extract from the novel discussed...
May 9, 2017
Football, fiction and fame
Sport and fiction don’t always mix well. The attraction of sport is that the drama is real, truly unscripted and unpredictable;...
Apr 22, 2017
Art, literature and underrated cities
Fish and trees are alike (p7) Recently as part of a module on my masters course we were given an interesting task: we were let loose in...
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