Don Quixote may be one of the best loved books in the world, but most of its readers have only…
British Library
27 April 2016 – 19 May 2016 Piazza, British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB For four weeks the…
Award-winning poet playwright and broadcaster Roger McGough was approached by Liverpool Playhouse in 2007 to translate a play by Molière…
European Literature Night (ELN), the British annual literary showcase which brings the best of the continent’s writers to the British…
The human story has always been one of migration, journeying across seas and continents to find work, water, food, comfort…
We’re always hearing how the UK publishes a shamefully small number of translations compared with other nations: 3 per cent?…
The Treaty of Amiens which ended the war between Britain, France, The Batavian Republic and Spain, prompted the Dutch to…
When I set up the publishing house OFF_PRESS a few years back, and started focusing on translations from Polish into…
In late February I walked the streets of Manhattan and came across a small shop. A beautiful green jacket hanging…
In his 2007 New Yorker essay, ‘Die Weltliteratur: European novelists and modernism’, Milan Kundera poses the question – would anyone…
Culturetheque has published a blog by one of European Literature Night 2015 authors Yasmina Khadra, ‘The Migrants’ Here is how it…
It will hardly have escaped your notice that we are in the midst of an election campaign in the UK…
