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‘The Orphanage’ – An Extract

Written by Serhiy Zhadan, widely considered to be one of the most important young writers in Ukraine, The…

We are delighted by the news that Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant…

As we near the publication of Journeying, Claudio Magris’s third book in translation with YUP, it seemed timely to…

Presented exclusively by YUP in anticipation of the publication of Adonis’ newest book, Concerto al-Quds, We are delighted to…

Presented exclusively by YUP in anticipation of the publication of Adonis’ newest book, Concerto al-Quds, We are delighted to…

Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction In her first UK appearance, Chinese novelist and…

Austrian satirist Karl Kraus’s famous Die letzten Tage der Menschheit – or in English The Last Days of Mankind – remains powerfully…

Patrick Modiano’s Paris – Article by Mark Polizzotti, translator of Suspended Sentences & After the Circus Patrick Modiano’s…

Cré na Cille or The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain was originally published in 1949, but has only recently become available…

The Margellos World Republic of Letters brings together canonical works of literature and fiction originally written in languages…

We had the chance to sit down with prolific translator Marian Schwartz to talk about her latest translation…

We had the privilege of sitting down to talk with Mark Polizzotti, who, among other things, has recently…

In 2014, French author Patrick Modiano stepped – uncharacteristically – into the limelight by winning the Nobel Prize…

Notes on Patrick Modiano and Suspended Sentences from the translator, Mark Polizzotti – 2014 At first blush, the…