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Shining a spotlight on the art of translation

From piercing studies of colonialism to powerful domestic sagas and all points in between, our panel of writers share their favourite titles of 2021

Translations longlisted for the National Book Awards have been recognized in stages of the International Booker, the Valle Inclán, and more.

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(Titan Books US 978-1789094343, $15.95, 368pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 9, 2021) Dark gothic fairy tale. Long ago the O’Malley family struck a deal with the mer: safety for their ships in return for a child of each generation. But after years of decline, the family has been unable to keep their side of the bargain.  

Dog Rose in the Wind, the Rain, the Earth , the third title in its Calico series. The collection features writing by eight international authors whose work explores humanitys complex relationship with the natural world. In Farkhondeh Aghaeis story "Dog Rose in the Wind, the Rain, the Earth," which appears below in Michelle Quays translation, a violent rainstorm alters the course of a young womans life. On a languid afternoon in Tehran, we passed through the quiet, leafy backstreets of Shem...

From Fake Facebook Profiles to Cannibal Bunnies, It’s All Strange in “Rabbit Island” Two Lines Press, 2021 With a flair for the uncanny, the wonderfully weird stories in Elvira Navarros new collection feature characters with a borderline grasp of reality and explore the exhilaration of feeling out of place. The unnamed narrator of “Paris Périphérie,” a wisp of a story in Elvira Navarro’s new collection of short fiction, Rabbit Island, has an innate sense of direction. Even in an ...

In her story collection "Rabbit Island," Elvira Navarro picks up where Kafka and Borges left off to expose Europe's creeping (and creepy) anxieties.

2021 reading list: 20 anticipated books to look out for this year The search for voice and identity as well as social and climate issues rule in this list of reads My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh; translated by Aida Bamia. Published by Hoopoe. Courtesy American University in Cairo Press Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri. Courtesy Bloomsbury Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic. Courtesy Bloomsbury The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in ...

Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC : This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sex...