Reporters and journalists need to tell stories that are happening in other countries and other languages to their own countries, in their own languages. But what are the challenges of telling someone else’s story when you don’t speak the same language? Does the language we choose to tell
Three books, two seasons, one country Introducing the World Series, an exciting new collaboration between Peter Owen Publishers and Istros Books: Three titles from a selected country translated into English Two seasons each year that showcase the innovative and distinctive work being produced
Antoine Laurain lives in Paris. His novels include The President’s Hat, The Red Notebook and French Rhapsody. The President’s Hat was a Waterstones Book Club and ABA Indies Introduce pick in 2013. Antoine Laurain represented France at European Literature Night 2014. Antoine Laurain is one o
Tim Parks is the author of fourteen novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, Sex Is Forbidden and, most recently, Painting Death, all of them translated into many languages. As well as being a novelist and the author of several works of non-fiction, Tim is the a
Claudiu M. Florian was born in 1969 in Rupea, Braşov County. He received a degree in German Studies at Bucharest University in 1994, an MA in ‘Humanistic Interdisciplinary Studies in the German Language’ at Bucharest University in 1996, and went on to obtain another MA in Contemporary H
Joanna Walsh is the author of Vertigo, Hotel, Grow a Pair, and Fractals. Her writing has also been published by Granta Magazine, The Dalkey Archive Best European Fiction 2015, Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015, The Stinging Fly, gorse journal, and others. She reviews at The N
