“Even the simplest words have secrets”
I want to start my series of occasional articles focusing on translators by giving an insight into the work of American translator and author Jennifer Croft.
NP
Written in the nineties, this book's matter of fact approach to difficult moral issues will still not appeal to all, perhaps even more so now in the era of #MeToo, but the characters of Sui and Kazami especially are compelling, and the writing has a meditative quality...
You Have Me To Love
This book will stay with you, whether you want it to or not, long after you’ve turned the last page. If you haven’t previously read any Dutch fiction this would be an ideal starting point, especially given that David Doherty’s translation is always excellent and often breathtakingly so.
International Booker Prize 2021
Complementing The Booker Prize for Fiction, this is a prestigious annual award for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. It aims to encourage more publishing and reading of quality works of imagination from all over the...
Marina
Did you know that before beginning his acclaimed Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, Ruiz Zafón wrote several books for young adults? As he writes in his preface, Marina is the final one he completed before embarking on The Shadow of the Wind, and it is a book that...