The Society of Authors’ Translators Association (TA) announces a new prize for debut literary translation, funded by translator Daniel Hahn, with backing from The British Council. The TA First Translation Prize, which will be run alongside the Society of authors’ nine other translation awards. G
Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa has won the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award for his novel A General Theory of Oblivion, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. The Award is organised and sponsored by Dublin City Council and at €100,000 is the world’s largest prize for a sin
I hear a big heavy chain rattle behind my back. A person dressed all in black – black hoody, black combat trousers, black combat boots – is standing in the middle of the office, swinging a long metal chain. I can’t see their face, the hood is covering it. I gasp, stop breathing. I’m totall
Zagreb – Sarajevo – Podgorica – Belgrade So far, thousands of citizens across the territory of the former Yugoslavia have signed the Declaration on the Common Language. This Declaration ruffled a few feathers in all former Yugoslav republics, being perceived almost as a “coup”. For politic
Jānis Tomašs (born 1984) began his love affair with poetry in the confines of a lonely childhood spent living with his grandmother in the Latgale region of Latvia. Further ideas were sparked by listening to early Latvian rap. His debut poetry collection in Latvian, whose title means Black Work Glo
Breathing into Marble was Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė’s first novel, and it won the EU Prize for Literature in 2009. Now it’s the first title from Noir Press, launching their ‘Contemporary Lithuanian Classics’ series. It all begins when Isabel adopts a young orphan named Ilya into her
