Identifying as a Muslim, feminist, and gay writer, Fatima Daas is becoming the new voice of her generation. She will present her novel The Last One which won her the prestigious Prix Les Inrockuptibles at the Institut. Drawn from her experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, her powerful, lyri
Translator Ollie Matthews, a member of the Oxford Georgian Translation Project, offers an insight into a new translation of Goderdzi Chokheli’s novel Human Sadness and short stories “Full-stop and Comma” and “The Communal Crow”. Translating Chokheli’s work was challenging: not only do hi
Have you ever contemplated quitting your day job to pursue your dream career? Do you fancy handing in your notice and becoming a film director, playwright or dancer? Well, the narrator of Marzahn, Mon Amour does the exact opposite. A successful writer whose sales have hit a slump, she retrains as a
Quake is to be applauded for its ambitious approach to exploring our understanding of ourselves as if we were starting with a blank canvas. It’s a novel about how we view life and self-knowledge through memory and what happens when it is wiped and we can no longer rely on it for answers. Memory is
Antoine Laurain is, amongst much else, a master of the ‘time-shift’ novel (The Readers’ Room, Vintage 1954). However, Red Is My Heart is different: time is of the essence here, but it’s a stream-of-consciousness time, a time of emptiness, confusion, angst, bereavement, and of coming to terms
Prosopagnosia is a coming-of-age novel by Sònia Hernández, who was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish Language Novelists in 2010. Samuel Rutter’s beautiful translation into English was published this month by Scribe. ‘Berta says that beautiful things aren’t made
