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Lesley Blanch A Bohemian Life, Waterstones London News Archive

December 26, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Lesley Blanch’s memoirs, On The Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life, published posthumously by Virago, will now be available in paperback. Join Lennie Goodings, Anne Sebba and others for an evening celebrating Trailblazing Women […]

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A to Z of Literary Translation Words Without Borders Spotlight

December 20, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The A to Z of Literary Translation was posted on the Words without Borders blog in instalments from February to May 2008, and was circulated at the Masters Class in Translation Studies which Alane Mason […]

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Jane Aitken Gallic Books Interview

November 18, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet 1

BookBlast interview with Jane Aitken, Gallic Books co-founder Ebury Street in London’s Belgravia: a quiet, residential, affluent area. The perfect place for a bookshop where readers can enjoy peaceful browsing away from the madding crowd, […]

Lucien d’Azay Author & Translator 4Translation

November 6, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Lucien d’Azay is a novelist, essayist and translator whose work has been published by Éditions Climats, Éditions Les Belles Lettres, Éditions Sortilèges and La Table Ronde. He divides his time between Paris and Venice. An […]

LaDivine Marie NDiaye Review

September 19, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast review of Ladivine by Marie NDiaye translated from the French by Jordan Stump. Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 “She had known from the start, before she could even speak or […]

Landing Laia Fàbregas Review

September 2, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

“When you’re rooted in yourself, you feel settled wherever you go. I guess to feel good we need to find places to adapt to. Except once we’ve adapted we need to move on, to find […]

Laia Fàbregas Author Interview

September 2, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Laia Fàbregas, author Laia Fàbregas, tell us a little bit about yourself. I grew up in Barcelona. When I was twenty-three, I went to the Netherlands for a couple of months and […]

Samantha Schnee Translator Interview

September 2, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interviews Samantha Schnee, translator Samantha Schnee, tell us a little bit about yourself. I was born in Scotland and moved to the U.S. with my family at the age of four. We lived in […]