The Last Lover by Can Xue – An Extract
Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction In her first UK appearance, Chinese novelist and…
Margellos World Republic of Letters
Yale Summer Reading – Sneak Preview
‘Delectable, utterly brilliant and, in that hackneyed phrase, a must-read.’ – Nigella Lawson on Play All With time…
Translating Karl Kraus & The Last Days of Mankind
Austrian satirist Karl Kraus’s famous Die letzten Tage der Menschheit – or in English The Last Days of Mankind – remains powerfully…
Books on Ireland: A St Patrick’s Day Selection
On 17th March people from around the world will be celebrating St Patrick’s day, the death date of the…
Alan Titley On Translating Cré na Cille
Cré na Cille or The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain was originally published in 1949, but has only recently become available…
Margellos World Republic of Letters: From Tolstoy to Modiano
The Margellos World Republic of Letters brings together canonical works of literature and fiction originally written in languages…
Marian Schwartz on Translating Tolstoy
We had the chance to sit down with prolific translator Marian Schwartz to talk about her latest translation…
Modiano: a scholar’s perspective
We talked to Dr Akane Kawakami, Senior Lecturer in modern French literature at Birkbeck, University of London, about Patrick…
Giacomo Leopardi: Passions, reviewed
Giacomo Leopardi’s Passions is a new volume in Yale’s critically acclaimed Margellos World Republic of Letters series. This…
Quiet Resonance: Translating Patrick Modiano
Notes on Patrick Modiano and Suspended Sentences from the translator, Mark Polizzotti At first blush, the qualities suggested by…
Patrick Modiano: Nobel Prize winner
On 9th October 2014 Patrick Modiano became the 107th winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Peter Englund, the…