I toss away the diary. While, in the street, leaves fly like pages. By Jaume Subirana Translated by Christopher Whyte From The Silent Letter (Fum d’Estampa Press, 2020) Jaume Subirana (Barcelona, 1963) is a writer, translator, and professor of Literature at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He h
The Dwarves’ Market They say that there’s a secluded place in Sicily where, on Christmas Eve, an enchanted fair takes place and that it lasts from the stroke of midnight to the first reading of the Gospel. The problem is finding out where this wonderful market takes place, which is a sha
A publisher I once tried to interest in translating Italian fairy-tales said to me, “We don’t think of Italy when we talk of fairy-tales. We think of Russia, of forests, of wolves and bears.” I did protest that there were forests in Italy – I had been there. And that I had s
Pop Up Projects has invested £2m in children’s literature over the last ten years: they’ve spent £270,000 providing 57,000 books to schools and over £750,000 commissioning 7,000 hours of author-led classroom workshops, inspiring and motivating over 90,000 children and young people in disadvan
7th December, 2020 Our resident ELNet blogger ROSIE EYRE shares her observations of the panel discussions through the day. Each blog includes a link to the video of each panel. The goal of this, the first ever UK-Swiss Publishing Day, was to promote and support the translation and publishing of Swis
7th December, 2020 Our resident ELNet blogger ROSIE EYRE shares her observations of the panel discussions through the day. Each blog includes a link to the video of each panel. The goal of this, the first ever UK-Swiss Publishing Day, was to promote and support the translation and publishing of Swis
