A compilation of reviews in the past twelve months for Women in Translation month (August 2024), including non-fiction and poetry and well as novels, short stories and children’s books. These include translations from Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Hebrew, Malayalam, Swedish and Vietnamese.
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A 2023 round-up of reviews of works in translation from Japanese, Korean and Chinese through Turkic and Spanish: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, classics and folk-tales.
Another bumper year of podcasts. Here is a selection of a dozen highlights from short stories and pop-classics in translation to biography, history, society and the arts.
Translations remained strong in this year’s (as always, subjective) list of books we thought worthy of particular mention, ranging from Chinese, Korean and Japanese, through Tagalog, Hindi, Turkish, French and Spanish and including autobiography, poetry and graphic novels as well as fiction. Non-fiction ranges from history and biography to art and culture.
How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2023? A bit better than 2022, possibly. As before, this list takes a broad view of what constitutes an “Asian” book.
A compilation of reviews in the past twelve months for Women in Translation month (August 2023), including non-fiction and poetry and well as novels and short stories. These list not just women authors who have been translated, but also women who are translators.
A 2022 round-up of reviews of works in translation from Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Kazakh, Russian, French and Spanish.