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Exiled writers have been forced to leave their home country due to political persecution, censorship, war, or other forms of oppression. They continue to produce literature while living in exile, usually addressing themes related to displacement, identity, and the experience of being an outsider

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Bridging the Gender Divide: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Spotlight

August 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
When a reader strolls into a bookshop, they enter a rich universe of literary imagination, yet historically, great swathes of stories from around the world have been missing from the shelves. While translated literature as […]
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Maureen Freely Translator, Novelist & Advocate Interview

August 20, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
BookBlast interview with Maureen Freely, the American novelist, journalist, professor and co-founder of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Georgia de Chamberet (GDC): Your early life bridged distinct worlds, moving from New Jersey to […]
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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

March 22, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
Our Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month come from France and the Congo, Iran, Suriname and the Netherlands, India, Spain. Ève Guerra, Shahnrush Parsipur, Astrid Roemer, Vivek Shanbhag and Sara Torres […]
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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

February 27, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
5 books, 5 countries: Russia, Spain, Algeria, Norway and Iraq (via the UK) set the scene. What links these works is a shared desire for clarity. Stepanova dismantles memory; García Llovet stalks the edges of […]
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Donald Rayfield OBE Author & Translator Interview

April 3, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Donald Rayfield OBE Author & Translator Interview
Donald Rayfield OBE is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers, and won the EBRD literature prize in 2019. […]
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A Country to Call Home (ed) Lucy Popescu Review

June 26, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on A Country to Call Home (ed) Lucy Popescu Review
BookBlast reviews A Country to Call Home edited by Lucy Popescu, focusing on the fate of refugee children and young adults. The anthology features writing by Michael Morpurgo, Eoin Colfer, Kit de Waal and Simon […]
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Christina Pribićević-Zorić Translator Interview

September 18, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Christina Pribićević-Zorić Translator Interview
BookBlast interview with  Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translator Christina Pribićević-Zorić, tell us a little bit about yourself I am from New York. My mother was Irish and my father was from the former Yugoslavia so I had […]
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Yan Ge Author Interview

June 10, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Yan Ge Author Interview
BookBlast interview with Yan Ge, author Yan Ge, where were you born, and where did you grow up? I was born in a small town outside of Chengdu, a major city in the southwest of […]

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