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Nina

Mar 4, 20221 min read

To Be Read...

In the coming months I plan to read books from three continents. The countries coming up include Peru, Russia, Mauritania and Togo. I’m...

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Nina

Feb 27, 20221 min read

Montenegro

Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knežević was originally written in Croatian and translated into English by Paula Gordon and...

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Nina

Feb 23, 20221 min read

Uruguay

The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero was published posthumously in 2005, Annie McDermott’s English translation was published in 2021 by...

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Nina

Jan 13, 20221 min read

Romania

Fem by Magda Carneci, translated by Sean Cotter and published in 2021 by Deep Vellum Publishing. This novel was originally published in...

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Nina

Jan 4, 20221 min read

Brazil

I've started 2022 with Brazilian author Julián Fuks' Occupation. Translated by Daniel Hahn and published in 2021 by Charco Press, this...

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Nina

Dec 5, 20211 min read

Angola

A General Theory of Oblivion was written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published in the original Portuguese in 2012. Translated into...

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Nina

Nov 4, 20212 min read

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...

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Nina

Nov 3, 20211 min read

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...

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Nina

Nov 3, 20211 min read

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...

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Nina

Oct 19, 20211 min read

China

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu. I read a first edition hardback, published by Head of Zeus in 2020. This...

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Nina

Oct 11, 20212 min read

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...

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Nina

Oct 11, 20211 min read

Switzerland

Proleterka is a short novel by Swiss author, Fleur Jaeggy. Written in Italian, it was originally published in 2001 and translated into...

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Nina

Oct 4, 20211 min read

Italy

This Italian novel, Almarina by Valeria Parrella, was originally published in 2019. Translated from Italian to English by Alex Valente,...

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Nina

Sep 16, 20211 min read

Guatemala

Severina, written by Guatemalan author Rodrigo Rey Rosa and translated by Chris Andrews. This edition was published by Yale University...

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Nina

Sep 14, 20211 min read

Kazakhstan

A Life At Noon by Talasbek Asemkulov was translated from the original Kazakh into English by Shelley Fairweather-Vega. Published by the...

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Nina

Sep 13, 20211 min read

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...

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Nina

Aug 30, 20211 min read

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...

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Nina

Aug 28, 20211 min read

Spain

Published by Pushkin Press in 2020 and originally published in 2018, Learning to Talk to Plants by Marta Orriols was translated from...

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Nina

Aug 1, 20211 min read

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...

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Nina

Jul 18, 20211 min read

Denmark

Browsing through my local bookshop I was pleasantly surprised to find The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated into English from the...

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