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Category Archive: News

2020: Translations from Southeast, South and West Asia

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A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Pali, Bengali, Tamil, Farsi, Armenian and Arabic: classics, contemporary fiction, short stories and poetry.

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Reports Posted on 3 January 2021

2020: Translations from European languages (Russian, French, Spanish)

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Not only does a good chunk of Russia, most of it in fact, lie in Asia, but Russian-language writers (not all of them Russian) have works set in whole or in part in Asia. 2020 saw new translations of modern classics by Sergei Tretyakov and Alexander Grin, as well as translations of new novels set in the Arctic, Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Reports Posted on 31 December 202031 December 2020

2020: The Year in Translation from Japanese (updated)

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A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Japanese, including fiction and non-fiction, novels, story collections and children’s books.

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Reports Posted on 30 December 202030 December 2020

Closing the Door on 2020: The Year in Translation from Chinese

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A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Chinese, including fiction, story collections, poetry and biographies.

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Reports Posted on 29 December 202029 December 2020

2020: The Year in Translation from Korean

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A round-up of reviews of fiction in translation from Korean, including two graphic novels, short stories and a rare novel from North Korea.

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Reports Posted on 25 December 2020

2020: Round-up of “Best Books” lists

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How did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2020? We like to keep score, but there are also many excellent recommendations and hidden gems in these many lists.

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Reports Posted on 20 December 202022 December 2020

50 Highlights from 2020

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This year’s subjective list of books we thought worthy of particular mention over the past 12 months: fiction (in translation and not), poetry, short stories, graphic novels, history, biography, literature, culture, politics, society and children’s books covering Asia from the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from Siberia to India and Turkey.

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Reports Posted on 16 December 202018 December 2020

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