Category Archives: Translation

Women in Translation Month 2023

Posted on August 31, 2023 by mandywight

It’s the last day of August and Women in Translation Month, like the summer, is drawing to a close. Inevitably, I’m casting my mind back over this month’s reading and wondering what it’s all been about: what did I choose … Continue reading →

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The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists 2- Granta-edited by Valerie Miles.

Posted on March 14, 2022 by mandywight

When I heard Valerie Miles talking with Elizabeth Day on BBC Radio 4 Open Book about the new Granta collection I was intrigued and excited—there’s nothing I love more than a carefully curated anthology as a way of discovering new … Continue reading →

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Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann- Power and Performance- translated by Ross Benjamin.

Posted on April 26, 2020 by mandywight

Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel Tyll, translated into English by Ross Benjamin, has been shortlisted for this year’s 2020 Booker International Prize. This prize acknowledges the skilful and creative art of translation by rewarding the author and translator equally. I read … Continue reading →

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Bogota 39- New Voices from Latin America-a feast of writing and the feat of translation-edited by Juliet Mabey-Hay Festival/ One World

Posted on July 2, 2018 by mandywight

In 2007 the Bogotá39 project identified and promoted 39 promising young writers from Latin America, bringing the works of writers like Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Junot Díaz to a wider readership. This 2018 collection follows on from the original with, … Continue reading →

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Meike Ziervogel and Hamid Ismailov- ‘The Art of Translation’ at Off the Shelf, Sheffield

Posted on November 13, 2015 by mandywight

One of the many treats on offer at this year’s Off the Shelf Festival of Words in Sheffield was an evening with Meike Ziervogel and Hamid Ismailov.  Meike Ziervogel  is the founder  of Peirene Press, a small  independent publishing house in … Continue reading →

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Ulrike Almut Sandig- Poetry reading at University of Sheffield

Posted on February 26, 2015 by mandywight

Thanks very much to the Dept of Germanic Studies at the University of Sheffield for organising this event where the German poet, Ulrike Almut Sandig read from her poetry and prose collections. Ulrike Almut Sandig grew up in the former … Continue reading →

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The Marriage of Figaro in English – Opera North

Posted on January 25, 2015 by mandywight

Do go and see Opera  North’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro this spring, sung in English in this fabulous translation by Jeremy Sams. The pleasures of the characterisation, the intricacies of the plot, the soaring arias and and … Continue reading →

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Lost in translation? Hong Khaou’s film ‘Lilting’

Posted on August 18, 2014 by mandywight

Hong Khaou’s beautiful film ‘Lilting’ deals with loss from different cultural perspectives-see this review from the Phnompenhpost for an interview with the film director Hong Khaou and some background to the film. I was intrigued by the role played by … Continue reading →

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