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Dahlia de la Cerda blends the myth of Greek tragedy with modern Mexican culture.
Taiwan Travelogue’s hands-on translation makes it a worthy winner of the International Booker 2026
A round up of the best novels of the year.
Translations will expand the reading worlds of children.
English readers can now encounter African novels as they were first imagined, in the rhythms of their own languages.
Translator Deepa Bhashti has delivered a bold and memorable translation of this collection of stories.
A tale of one friendship over 20 years between a narrator and doomed woman.
Fanon’s famous book was translated to isiZulu by South African writer and scholar Makhosazana Xaba.
If you search for translated books all of them won’t come up in a library catalogue search.
A richly wrought tale of love found at the fag end of a republic wins the 2024 International Booker.
Six brilliant novels from around the world but only one can win.
It reads powerfully in the Shona language, and is one of two of her books newly translated into it.
Which version of “The Metamorphosis” or “Crime and Punishment” should you choose? In a particularly well-stocked library or bookshop, you could find many different English translations.
Research on under-catalogued documents in Oxford sheds new light on one of history’s most influential books.
British readers are missing out on a wealth of literature written by non-English women writers.
Much of the recent commentary on Sino-African relations has a negative tone. But genuine cultural exchange holds the promise of mutual enrichment.
One publisher spent over 40 years trying to profit off Hitler’s hateful tome.
Is translating into native languages helping the disenfranchised?
Not every crime novel needs a Jason Bourne. Mishani eschews the obvious world of Mossad agents and terrorist plots you might expect in an Israeli crime novel – and the results are thrilling.
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Associate Professor of French and Translation, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, King's College London
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Westminster
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Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature, King's College London
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Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Monash University
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Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Creative and Cultural Industries, Kingston University
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PhD Researcher in Feminist Futurities, Leeds Beckett University
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University
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Fellow in English Literature, University of Birmingham
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PhD Candidate, Latin American Studies, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in German and Translation, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate, School of Humanities, University of Hull