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Literary success stories can have strange beginnings. After Eugen Chirovici came to England from his native Romania, it took only…
Author of more than fifty books, including novels, collections of essays, as well as quite a few volumes of poetry,…
Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when…
Captives deserves to stand on the same shelf with Joyce’s Ulysses, Döblin’s Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury,…
This is a daring book not only because it skilfully combines three different genres (crime, fantasy and historical non-fiction), but…
A mix of memoir and fiction, Mircea Cărtărescu’s three-part epic – seamlessly translated by Sean Cotter – is the first…
The Nobel prize-winner’s most recent novel to be published in English translation is a book of details. From the opening…
On belatedly discovering this slim but stunning bilingual selection of verse by the Romanian writer Magda Cârneci, my first thought…
In their persuasive introduction to the English edition of Ana Blandiana’s The Sun of Hereafter and Ebb of the Senses,…
Over the past year, there have been some great new releases of children’s books translated from French. Here are just…
In All Men Want to Know, Nina Bouraoui recounts her own experiences of growing up in Algeria and France. With…
Prize-winning Swiss novelist Roland Buti writes novels that seem at first glance to be charmingly bucolic. Indeed, his most recent…
