and other stories

February 24, 2023

A Cake Full of Knives: An Interview with Elisa Victoria

Elisa Victoria on child narrators, comics, and post-Franco Spain. Translated by Charlotte Whittle.
April 8, 2022

When a Country’s Soul Succumbs: Laws, Migration and Culture

The 2022 StAnza Lecture by Mona Arshi.
October 26, 2021

Everyone’s In, Everyone’s Out: A Conversation with Tice Cin

Tice Cin on North London, North Cyprus, and sensitivity reads.
August 6, 2021

Mario Levrero in Conversation with Mario Levrero

An imaginary interview with Mario Levrero and Mario Levrero, translated and introduced by Annie McDermott.
February 26, 2021

Memories of the Fires

El Salvador’s Claudia Hernández on war, women, and burning. Translated by Julia Sanches.
June 9, 2020

Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed

Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience
November 17, 2016

Fragments

The winner of the European Prize for Literature 2009 writes six new short stories for PEN Atlas to mark the publication of her newest book, Trysting.
September 10, 2015

Far from Pompeii

Susana Moreira Marques, author of Now and at the Hour of our Death, writes of obsolescence, loss and remembering in a rural town in northern Portugal.
May 15, 2014

Finding the sworn virgin

Elvira Dones takes PEN Atlas to the mountains of Albania, where the story of an ancient custom, ideas about gender, and the resilient women who subverted both, helped the author to find a connection back to her homeland
February 27, 2014

The translator as literary activist

Jethro Soutar writes for PEN Atlas on the urgent case of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, the PEN-award-winning author whom he translates and is now trying to help protect, as Juan faces persecution from the regime in Equitorial Guinea
October 3, 2013

Three Years Old: the reality of publishing translated fiction

What does the future hold for the publishing of literature in translation? Stefan Tobler from And Other Stories takes us through the independents, small presses and community interest companies using innovative ways to publish work from around the world
January 10, 2013

Publishers’ highlights for 2013

This week PEN Atlas asks UK publishers about the translated books they are excited about publishing in 2013
January 10, 2013

Publishers' highlights for 2013

This week PEN Atlas asks UK publishers about the translated books they are excited about publishing in 2013