Adam Thirlwell takes us through the utopian goals and surprising results of Multiples, an experiment in translation
Read MoreRecommended Summer Reading in Translation from PEN Atlas
Need a good book to go with the good weather? In the lead-up to this evening’s English PEN Summer Party, Marina Warner, James Meek, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Blake Morrision, and many more offer their tips for what to read in translation this summer D.J. Taylor I’d like to recommend Stefan Chwin’s Death in Danzig, translated…
Read MoreThe Art of the Novella
In this week’s second PEN Atlas dispatch, Meike Ziervogel from Peirene Press makes the case for the novella, charting the history of the form, and reflecting on her experience publishing great novellas in translation from around Europe
Read MoreNew frontiers for translated fiction
Jonathan Ruppin writes for PEN Atlas about the shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, what it can tell us about the context of translated fiction in the present and which names to keep an eye out for in the future
Read MorePEN Atlas – Editor’s Round Up February 2013
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis reviews the first few months of 2013 for the Atlas; offering up a few personal highlights so far and drawing our attention to upcoming translation Prizes and literary events and festivals.
Read MorePEN Atlas – Editor's Round Up February 2013
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis reviews the first few months of 2013 for the Atlas; offering up a few personal highlights so far and drawing our attention to upcoming translation Prizes and literary events and festivals.
Read MorePublishers’ highlights in 2013: part 2
In part 2 of our Publishers’ Highlights for PEN Atlas, we find out about Japanese crime fiction from Little Brown, Balkan stories from Istros Books, Iranian memoirs from Oneworld Publications, and many more
Read MorePublishers' highlights in 2013: part 2
In part 2 of our Publishers’ Highlights for PEN Atlas, we find out about Japanese crime fiction from Little Brown, Balkan stories from Istros Books, Iranian memoirs from Oneworld Publications, and many more
Read MorePublishers’ highlights for 2013
This week PEN Atlas asks UK publishers about the translated books they are excited about publishing in 2013
Read MorePublishers' highlights for 2013
This week PEN Atlas asks UK publishers about the translated books they are excited about publishing in 2013
Read MoreYule love these books in translation
Writers, scouts, literary festival directors, translators & publishers recommend great literature in translation
Read MoreFiction Uncovered writers and their favourite books in translation
Fiction Uncovered, is the annual promotion that celebrates the best of contemporary British fiction by selecting eight contemporary writers and promoting their books through its website, promotions in bookshops, author events, and its pop-up radio station, Fiction Uncovered FM. The PEN Atlas asked the selected writers to choose their favourite books in translation.
Read MorePEN Atlas recommends: ITD2012 speakers on their favourite translated books
To celebrate the annual International Translation Day symposium, taking place tomorrow at King’s Place, London, Tasja Dorkofikis asks speakers to recommend their favourite writers in translation
Read MorePEN Atlas – Editor's Round Up
In the first of a monthly series, PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis rounds up some of the highlights so far, and suggests some great further reading for our literary travellers
Read MorePEN Atlas – Editor’s Round Up
In the first of a monthly series, PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis rounds up some of the highlights so far, and suggests some great further reading for our literary travellers
Read MoreScottish Translation
Sold-out translation duels, ninjas versus saints… Daniel Hahn reports from Edinburgh for PEN Atlas
Read MoreGrammar and Glamour: On Translating Diego Marani’s New Finnish Grammar
Following our previous PEN Atlas piece by Diego Marani, his English translator Judith Landry talks us through the strange music of Finnish and translation as walking a tight-rope
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