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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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Red River Somnath Batabyal Review

August 25, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
A coming-of-age saga, Red River centres around the fate of three boys whose childhood friendship is strained by political upheaval and violence. Set against the turbulent shifts in power in Assam in the late twentieth […]
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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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How Book Prizes Propel Authors Beyond Their Best Spotlight

June 28, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on How Book Prizes Propel Authors Beyond Their Best Spotlight
Book prizes are the ultimate tastemakers of the literary world, providing welcome cash to authors; boosting sales for publishers and booksellers; helping readers choose high-quality fiction and nonfiction out of the thousands of books being […]
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Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Samar Yazbek Review

May 20, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off on Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Samar Yazbek Review
In early 2024, Samar Yazbek found herself in Doha, where more than 2,500 Palestinian survivors of the genocide in Gaza were living alongside their families and receiving desperately needed medical care. Yazbek is a Syrian […]
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City Like Water Dorothy Tse Review

March 9, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off on City Like Water Dorothy Tse Review
City Like Water by Dorothy Tse out from Fitzcarraldo and translated by Natascha Bruce, is her third book to be translated into English, following the surreal short story collection Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky […]
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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

January 15, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
Greetings readers! Here are Our Top 5 Books of the Month from around the world to kick off the new year, to refresh  perspectives and remind us why cultural literacy isn’t a luxury, but a […]
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Lovers of Franz K Burhan Sönmez Review

June 24, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Lovers of Franz K Burhan Sönmez Review
Lovers of Franz K, translated from the Kurdish by Sami Hêzil, is an unusual, labyrinthine tale. An exploration of truth, deception and the malleability of history, it questions how official and personal narratives are warped […]

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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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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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