A round-up of reviews of fiction and short story collections in translation from Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia and eight different South Asian languages, classical and modern.
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A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Korean, including fiction, story collections, poetry and non-fiction. Click on the title for the review.
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Japanese, including fiction, story collections, poetry and non-fiction.
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Chinese, including fiction, story collections, poetry, classics and essays.
Another bumper year of podcasts. Here is a selection of a fifteen highlights. Click on the speaker to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.
2022 seems to have a been a good year for translations: fully one-half of this year’s (as always, subjective) list of books we thought worthy of particular mention were in translation in languages from Persian and Turkish to Bahasa Indonesia and Korean. The balance is shared between English fiction, poetry and non-fiction: memoir, history and art.
How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2022?