INTERPRET magazine
About
Interpret is Scotland's magazine of international literature: open to anyone, anywhere, in any language.
We showcase new writing in English alongside poems, stories, and interviews from around the world. Authors featured in Interpret include winners of the Booker Prize, the International Booker Prize, the King's Gold Medal for Poetry, the US National Book Award, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Publication in multiple languages is key to our work: we always publish in the original and English translation. So far, we've published authors from 53 countries in 38 languages. We receive no funding and rely on a dedicated network of subscribers.
Our latest issue, Interpret 15, features Gökçenur C., winner of Türkiye's prestigious Metin Altıok Poetry Prize, and Andrea Cote Botero, winner of the Premio Casa de América, with new writing in Kurdish, Mandarin, Estonian, and more. Copies of our back issues are available at our 'Buy' page.
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Selected Authors
(see our 'Past Issues' page)
Simon Armitage, Ben Okri (Issue 14)
Claudia Piñeiro, A. C. Grayling (Issue 13)
Mia Couto, Sasha Dugdale (Issue 12)
Burhan Sönmez, Angela Rodel, Najwan Darwish (Issue 11)
Serhiy Zhadan, Samanta Schweblin (Issue 10)
Yves Bonnefoy (Issue 9)
Jennifer Croft, Georgi Gospodinov, Oksana Zabuzkho (Issue 8)
David Constantine (Issue 7)
Max Porter, Irene Solà (Issue 6)
