https://www.pintbookclub.com/programme
The next meeting of the Portuguese in Translation book club is at 7 pm (BST) on 18 July. The book this time is Abdulai Sila's brilliant The Ultimate Tragedy, translated by Jethro Soutar.
#Portuguese #LiteratureInTranslation #BookClub #translation

Aww, sad to hear #DubravkaUgrešić died a couple weeks ago. She's one of those authors where after reading just one book I add all their other work to my TBR list. #bookstodon #LiteratureInTranslation #TranslatedFiction

I'm #NowReading Tomb of Sand by #GeetanjaliShree and had to stop to google a bunch of names/titles of Partition authors. Now I have books from #KrishnaSobti and #Manto on the way. That's how #TranslatedFiction gets ya! #bookstodon #LiteratureInTranslation

Currently reading. #juantomasavilalaurel #thegurugupledge #jethrosoutar #andotherstories #bookstadon #andotherstoriesbooks #equatoguineanliterature #amreading #literatureintranslation

“In red pencil on the unfinished wooden door had been written ‘Rikard Goldberger, Engineer.’ In case the postman came with a letter from Vienna.” —Kin by Miljenko Jergović #books #literature #LiteratureInTranslation #ArchipelagoBooks

I'm disabled enough to make travel massively difficult and I can't afford it anyway, so #LiteratureInTranslation and occasionally in the original language (very slowly) are how I see the world.

Cheers to the translators!

My friend Rachel Cordasco, who literally wrote the book on speculative fiction in translation, posted her stats on books she read in translation this year and it made me wonder about my own!

Of the 201 books & comics ) I read this year, 52 of them were translated into English from:

Portuguese 11 (all comics by Léo)
Japanese 1
Spanish 6
French 3 prose 22 comics
Cantonese 1
Russian 1
Danish 3
Norwegian 1
Polish 1
Korean 1
Italian 1

#Booktotodon #LiteratureInTranslation

Today the much, much beloved Hong Kong writer Xi Xi has passed away and we in HK feel her departure very deeply. I had written about her in this piece for #zolimacitymag so more people know about her work. Her poetry is translated by the wonderful Jennifer Feeley:
https://zolimacitymag.com/xi-xi-playful-seriousness-quintessential-hong-kong-writer-teddy-bear/
#xixi #Hongong #hongkongwriter #literature #hongkongliterature #literatureintranslation #chineseliterature #goodbyedearXiXi

Bookish Advent Day 5
Before The Feast by Saša Stanišić
A mix of myth, folklore and history in a tale of a fictional East German village on the night before a festival
#bookstodon #BookishAdvent #Folklore #History #LiteratureInTranslation

"Opapa would supervise our care of his garden, pleased and tranquil at the prospect that everything was growing, sprouting, blossoming, and yielding fruit according to some natural order, free from history and from the lead that seeps out of newspaper headlines, ready for those who would refashion it into bullets, artillery ordinance, bombs."

—Kin by Miljenko Jergović

#books, #bookstadon #LiteratureInTranslation