Translation Is The Language We Read Most: An Interview With Samanta Schweblin
An interview with Samanta Schweblin, the most acclaimed of a new generation of Latin American authors, now in English.
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INTERPRET magazine
James Appleby
- Aug 8
- 7 min
Weird Dissonant Intervals: An Interview With Angela Rodel
An Interview with Angela Rodel, winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize for her translation of Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter.
James Appleby
- Aug 8
- 7 min
The Right To Our Mother Tongue: An Interview With Burhan Sönmez
An interview with PEN International President, Burhan Sönmez.
James Appleby
- Nov 13, 2023
- 6 min
La traducción es el idioma en el que más leemos: entrevista con Samanta Schweblin
The English translation of this interview can be read in Interpret 10. Samanta Schweblin es la autora más condecorada de la nueva...
James Appleby
- Nov 10, 2023
- 6 min
The leap that has been taken: an interview with Lee Yew Leong
Lee Yew Leong is the founder and editor-in-chief of Asymptote, among the world’s leading journals of translated literature. Asymptote has...
James Appleby
- Oct 18, 2023
- 3 min
Review: Ribwort by Hanna Komar
Ribwort showcases the strength of poetry from a life under violent authoritarianism. Imprisoned for her part in the protests that...
James Appleby
- Jul 10, 2023
- 6 min
Expressions of hope: an interview with Thomas Halliday
Dr Thomas Halliday is the author of Otherlands, an exploration of deep time and life on Earth. Each chapter reaches further into the...
James Appleby
- Jun 27, 2023
- 7 min
Language can be home: an interview with Hanna Komar
Hanna Komar is Belarus’ leading young poet. Imprisoned in the protests that followed the rigged Belarusian elections of 2020, she now...
James Appleby
- Mar 1, 2023
- 6 min
What translations can do: an interview with Jennifer Croft
Jennifer Croft is among the world’s most influential translators. She won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize with Olga Tokarczuk;...
James Appleby
- Sep 20, 2022
- 7 min
Now my life is in two parts: interviews with Ukrainian artists at war
James Appleby at the Edinburgh International Culture Summit The interpreters grip their notebooks, terrified someone might speak out of...
James Appleby
- Jun 17, 2022
- 6 min
Pieced back together: an interview with David Constantine
Following Auden, Larkin, and Hughes, David Constantine received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2020. He was editor of Modern Poetry...
James Appleby
- May 9, 2022
- 6 min
Translation is radical politics: an interview with Max Porter
Max Porter is a bookseller turned acclaimed author. His 2015 debut, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, was an intense hybrid of poetry,...
James Appleby
- Apr 13, 2022
- 6 min
Everyone, even the mountain itself: an interview with Irene Solà
Interview with Irene Solà, author of 'When I Sing, Mountains Dance'.
James Appleby
- Mar 28, 2022
- 6 min
There are lots of ways of being a person: an interview with Bel Olid
Bel Olid is one of the finest storytellers and translators from the flourishing Catalan scene. Una terra solitària, their debut novel,...
James Appleby
- Mar 14, 2022
- 3 min
Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance - Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
When I Sing, Mountains Dance is the sort of work a translator dreams of, then sweats over in the night.
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