They say patience can turn a stone into a jewel. Hafez No ! It didn't turn into a jewel It isn't a jewel, not at all It never will be No ! It was a stone : patience A stone through
Romanian literature is very rich, and rich also in translation: this bibliography is only partial, but I hope it gives some idea of, and access to, these rich and fluid trends in c
While Timişoara may not have produced its own ‘school’ of poetry or a defined body of works, some of the energies necessary for a rethinking of Romanian culture as a whole, bo
Below is a partial, though fairly thorough, list of modern Swiss poetry and prose published in English translation since 2010. I’ve not included straightforward reprints of earli
Since 1960 at least 320 individual translations into English from the three Baltic countries have been published. In other words, a minimum of 320 books of poetry and prose, by ind
Dalkey Archive has published Alex Zucker’s translation of Jáchym Topol’s Angel Station (‘Anděl’, 1995), thus rounding off the English versions of Topol’s Prague trilog
Acclaimed poet, editor and translator, Stephen Watts, shares his views on the art and power of co-translation. I began co-translating in the early to mid-1990s, partly from an impe
Panorama by Dušan Šarotar Afterword by Stephen Watts Panorama is Dušan Šarotar’s fourth novel, following on from Island of the Dead, Billiards at Hotel Dobray and Stay with
