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In the coming months I plan to read books from three continents. The countries coming up include Peru, Russia, Mauritania and Togo. I’m...
Nina
Mar 4, 20221 min read
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Montenegro
Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knežević was originally written in Croatian and translated into English by Paula Gordon and...
Nina
Feb 27, 20221 min read
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Uruguay
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero was published posthumously in 2005, Annie McDermott’s English translation was published in 2021 by...
Nina
Feb 23, 20221 min read
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Romania
Fem by Magda Carneci, translated by Sean Cotter and published in 2021 by Deep Vellum Publishing. This novel was originally published in...
Nina
Jan 13, 20221 min read
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Brazil
I've started 2022 with Brazilian author Julián Fuks' Occupation. Translated by Daniel Hahn and published in 2021 by Charco Press, this...
Nina
Jan 4, 20221 min read
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Angola
A General Theory of Oblivion was written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published in the original Portuguese in 2012. Translated into...
Nina
Dec 5, 20211 min read
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33/196. Some highlights.
In seeking some commonality in the novels I read I realised that they question our humanity, our relationships to family, friends and the...
Nina
Nov 4, 20212 min read
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Slovenia
Mitja Cander's Blind Man was translated by Rawley Grau and published by Istros Books in 2021. I read a paperback that I found in...
Nina
Nov 3, 20211 min read
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Finland
Inlands by Elin Willows, translated by Duncan J Lewis and published in 2020 by Nordisk Books. Born in Sweden, Elin Willows has lived in...
Nina
Nov 3, 20211 min read
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China
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu. I read a first edition hardback, published by Head of Zeus in 2020. This...
Nina
Oct 19, 20211 min read
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Publishers
This week I've been reading a short novel published by And Other Stories. In the 10 years since they came into being they have published...
Nina
Oct 11, 20212 min read
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Switzerland
Proleterka is a short novel by Swiss author, Fleur Jaeggy. Written in Italian, it was originally published in 2001 and translated into...
Nina
Oct 11, 20211 min read
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Italy
This Italian novel, Almarina by Valeria Parrella, was originally published in 2019. Translated from Italian to English by Alex Valente,...
Nina
Oct 4, 20211 min read
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Guatemala
Severina, written by Guatemalan author Rodrigo Rey Rosa and translated by Chris Andrews. This edition was published by Yale University...
Nina
Sep 16, 20211 min read
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Kazakhstan
A Life At Noon by Talasbek Asemkulov was translated from the original Kazakh into English by Shelley Fairweather-Vega. Published by the...
Nina
Sep 14, 20211 min read
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United Kingdom
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden, published by Canongate Books in 2021. It was hard to pick a book from the #UnitedKingdom but...
Nina
Sep 13, 20211 min read
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Algeria
I chose a novel that was written by a woman who was born and brought up in Algeria but currently lives in France, is in fact both French...
Nina
Aug 30, 20211 min read
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Spain
Published by Pushkin Press in 2020 and originally published in 2018, Learning to Talk to Plants by Marta Orriols was translated from...
Nina
Aug 28, 20211 min read
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Germany
Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands was translated by Jen Calleja and first published in German in 2017. I read a paperback published in...
Nina
Aug 1, 20211 min read
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Denmark
Browsing through my local bookshop I was pleasantly surprised to find The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated into English from the...
Nina
Jul 18, 20211 min read
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