Radio producer Philippe Collin has had a huge cultural impact in France on two counts: firstly as the creator of the hit podcast Facing History, which has had forty million downloa
Manuel Rivas is a celebrated poet, novelist, film-maker and environmental activist from Galicia. The north-western region of Spain is mostly surrounded by sea, and the sea is a for
Valse triste (‘Sad Waltz’) is a haunting but short orchestral piece by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius that comforts two of the characters in Marcello Fois’s crime novel o
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
Walking past Waterstones on Piccadilly in late August, I was struck by their colourful window display for Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City, translated for the fir
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki is a modern classic in Greece, and since it first appeared there in 1946, it has never been out of print. It is now reissued as part of the Peng
French writer Laurent Binet’s new novel, Civilisations is fictional history, turning true events upside down. What if a group of Vikings lands in North America and makes it as fa
To read Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal, is to immerse yourself in rich and sometimes obscure language and deep ideas. You may have to keep a dictionary by your side – but it
What was the floor like in your childhood home? Resi, the narrator of Anke Stelling’s Higher Ground, has a moment in the opening section of the novel when she realises her mother
Delphine de Vigan is that rare phenomenon – a French writer well known to UK readers, especially for her novels Based on a True Story (2019) a psychological thriller blurring mem
