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‘Contradictions’ by Yang Gui-ja (Review)
Over the course of my past year’s Korean literature adventures, I’ve discovered lots of great female writers (e.g. O Chong-hui, Ch’oe Yun, Bae Suah), so I was always going to try another one for Women...
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‘Self-Portrait in Green’ by Marie NDiaye (Review)
Today’s stop on our Women in Translation Month tour takes us to France, for a meeting with an old friend and a great publisher. A while back, I read (and enjoyed) Marie NDiaye’s Three Strong Women,...
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‘The Mountain and the Wall’ by Alisa Ganieva (Review)
Today’s Women in Translation Month post is of another book from Deep Vellum Press (the third woman in translation of theirs I’ve tried). There’s a first today, though, as the setting is one very new...
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‘Music & Literature No.6’ (Review)
When I was asked a while back if I wanted to have a look at the latest edition of Music & Literature, I was, of course, happy to oblige. I didn’t hear anything for some time, and by the time it...
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‘Train de nuit avec suspects’ (‘Night Train with Suspects’) by Yoko Tawada...
A while back, when I was looking in the uni library for a Korean book for Women in Translation Month, I stopped by the neighbouring Japanese section (as you do) to see if there was anything...
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‘A Man of His Word’ by Imma Monsó (Review)
One of the writers I saw at last year’s Melbourne Writers Festival was Spanish author Nicolás Casariego, but the discussion about his book Antón Mallick Wants to Be Happy was actually a last-minute...
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‘Happy are the Happy’ by Yasmina Reza (Review)
Having already been to France once this Women in Translation Month, I wasn’t planning on making a return trip. However, when a book I was counting on didn’t arrive, I was forced to bring in a...
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Women in Translation Month – Beyond the Reviews
Well, we’re almost at the end of Women in Translation Month, and here on the blog we’ve seen many reviews this time around (including one from my little assistant Emily!). But that’s not quite all of...
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‘The Story of the Lost Child’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
If you were looking for a figure to spearhead Women in Translation Month, a contemporary female writer whose work has appeal in English, you could do worse than opt for the elusive and enigmatic Elena...
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August 2015 Wrap-Up – Women in Translation Month
August was, of course, Women in Translation Month, and as you’ll see from the list of reviews below, I was a very busy boy all month. There was lots of reading, lots of reviewing – and a couple of...
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