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The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the world’s most prestigious literary honours, awarded each year by the Swedish Academy. It usually honours an author’s entire body of work. Winners include Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, Annie Ernaux, Albert Camus and Peter Handke.

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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

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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

October 17, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
We’re relaunching Our Top 5 Books of the Month from around the world for curious readers looking for something a little different. We recommend a selection of books new in translation, listed alphabetically by author, […]
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A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare Book Club News

November 25, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare Book Club News
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson, was longlisted for the 2024 Man Booker International Prize. “History is usually reticent regarding what happens between poets and tyrants. The truth gives way to […]
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The Years Annie Ernaux BookBlast® Book Club News

June 26, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on The Years Annie Ernaux BookBlast® Book Club News
Greetings readers, book clubbers and friends of BookBlast! Come and join our intimate and growing group of translation book club enthusiasts keen to explore different cultures and perspectives through literature on Monday 8 Julyat Hatchards, […]
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Andrey Kurkov, Naguib Mahfouz, Annie Ernaux BookBlast® Book Club News

May 21, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Andrey Kurkov, Naguib Mahfouz, Annie Ernaux BookBlast® Book Club News
The just-launched BookBlast® Hatchards Translation Book Club meets on the second Monday of each month to discuss works of fiction in translation from around the world published in the last ten years. The titles chosen […]
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Five Random Reads of the Year Review

December 22, 2023 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Five Random Reads of the Year Review
BookBlast’s Five Random Reads of the Year is a bid to keep it simple and essential, as so much is published and we are deluged with end-of-year round-ups scattered across the Media. The Hundred Years’ […]
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BookBlast 2022 in Review Spotlight, what an odd post-pandemic year this has been, deranged in so many ways, over and beyond the realities of Brexit hitting home, and the depressing normalization of exploitation by the […]

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This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of lit This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of literature from India translated from Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Assamese. These works capture the lived experience and heartbeat of the sub-continent, including numerous languages and regional dialects, ranging from the intimate domestic sphere to great epics. 
Our chosen books feature the 2022 International Booker Prize Winner, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, which is a powerful meditation on gender, age and family conventions recounted from myriad narrative perspectives, Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, a tense and engrossing family drama set over the course of four days, One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, a contemporary Indian novel which scrutinises and subverts patriarchal expectations of marriage, the anthology A Fistful of Moonlight which collates contemporary writing from Assam through fourteen distinct stories, and finally Dog Star by Nabarun Bhattacharya, a chilling, dystopian allegory that reimagines a city’s relationship with its abandoned animals. 
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This week, BookBlast highlights modernist prose fr This week, BookBlast highlights modernist prose from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Literature from the German-speaking world navigates a tumultuous century of war, division and reunification. From the symbolism and culture of the Danube region to the tricky realities of life in Berlin, memory, identity and family legacies are explored.
Ranging from the international bestseller Lázár by Nelio Biedermann, a multigenerational family saga with a gothic twist, the confrontational complicity of wartime legacy in Ludwig's Room by Alois Hotschnig, to the indulgent humour of Christian Kracht’s tragicomic, International Booker Prize nominee Eurotrash, these novels scrutinise the search for identity in the shadow of history. 
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