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Memory Salt: A Translator’s Afterword
The factual, the concrete, only deserves its place in the text as a means of supplying atmosphere or providing the […]
Rays From Another Star: A Translator’s Afterword
The novel Star 111 takes its title from an iconic East German transistor radio, a device that awakened the protagonist […]
And Other Stories x #WITMonth x Spanish women authors awaiting translation into English
My experience as an intern this summer at And Other Stories has been a dream. As part of my work, […]
Martyn Crucefix on In Case of Loss by Lutz Seiler
The poet and translator Martyn Crucefix recently translated the non-fiction pieces of Lutz Seiler. Here are his thoughts on the […]
Charlotte Whittle on Encountering Elisa Victoria’s Oldladyvoice
What do you remember most about being a child? That was the question I asked myself after reading Vozdevieja – […]
Charlotte Whittle on translating Norah Lange’s memoir, Notes from Childhood
After being shortlisted for both the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the Society of Authors first translation prize […]
WIT Month: Ten Minutes with the Translator
We are excited to announce a series of bite-size readings throughout August, #WITMonth. These live events are scheduled for Thursdays […]
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel speaks on lands, conflict and displacement.
Equatorial Guinean writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (author of By Night the Mountain Burns and The Gurugu Pledge) spoke on […]
Julia Sanches on translating Slash and Burn
Q: You’ve done quite a few books with us now, but the first was Susana Moreira Marques’ Now and at […]