A light was jammed in the door lock I noticed it and moved aside a river Of pages filled with writing. I wanted to free it with a key But it was faint, almost winter already And nothing and no one was near me And its tiny trace would soon disappear It was caught on […]
The winners of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2022 were announced at a ceremony held at The Shard in London on Thursday 24 November. For the first time in the six-year history of the prize, the judges selected joint winners: Osebol by Marit Kapla, translated from Swedish by Peter Gra
The Peirene Stevns Translation Prize 2023 is now open. This year the prize is aimed at emerging translators from German to English. Entrants are invited to translate a sample from Ein simpler Eingriff by Swiss writer Yael Inokai (Carl Hanser Verlag, 2022) – a haunting novel following a young nur
COMEDY AND CRISIS The European Literature Days are now almost in their fifteenth year, and during that time, many writers have related their personal experiences of despotism, destruction, violence and terrible suffering in wartime. They hailed from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe or the former Y
Festival organised by Romancero Books’ bookshop with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London. The second edition of the Festival of Spanish Queer Literature in London, a project that was born from the London-based online bookstore Romancero Bo
Last year I discovered Basque writer Katixa Agirre thanks to Editorial Tránsito, an independent publisher based in Madrid that publishes Spanish women’s writing, as well as women in translation. My first encounter with Agirre was her self-translation from Basque into Spanish of Las Madres No, whi
