Where did the idea for Translators Aloud come from? CC: It all started with a little conversation on Twitter… TK: In May 2020, at the height of the first Covid-19 lockdown, the i
Just when Simenon aficionados were adding to their shelves the last couple of volumes of Penguin’s very welcome new translations of all the Maigret novels, there comes a surprisi
I suspect that many, if not most, British readers will be more familiar with Georges Simenon as the author of the detective novels featuring the Parisian police commissaire Jules M
Over the past decade, Max Lobe has emerged as a name to watch in contemporary Swiss literature. Since moving to Switzerland as a student and publishing his first novel in 2011, the
This is a phrase from Camfranglais, a mixture of French, English, Pidgin and borrowings from local languages. How do you translate a phrase that is already partly in
Selfies is an account of women’s way of seeing themselves and of the author’s self-image. Sylvie Weil puts herself in the picture, ‘painting’ with words, using her phone. A
Twice a year, on mountain roads and tracks all over the world, sheep and livestock make their way between alpine summer pastures and lowland winter meadows in a practice known as t
Sitting at his ailing mother’s bedside, Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun finds himself transported back to the world of his own childhood and beyond, into the unknown recesses
‘We’re both ruthless… no tiptoeing around one another’s egos’: Ros Schwarz and Lulu Norman on jointly translating Morocco’s most famous novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun’s A
26 October 2016, 7 pm The Moisaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW FREE, rsvp@mosaicrooms.org Join distinguished French-Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun i
