Coming in October: Iman Mersal, Bushra al-Maqtari & more
2022-10-01
This month, we can look forward to new non-fiction, poetry, and novels in translation.Continue Reading
#WiTMonth’s Translate This: Hadiya Hussein’s ‘What Will Come’
2020-08-19
“You’ll find something that looks like a boulder, but it’s not—it’s cork, painted so that it resembles rock. Push it aside and go out. A few meters away you’ll find someone who’ll look after you.”Continue Reading
‘It’s a Shame When a Novel Aspires to be a Glossary’
2010-09-29
I don’t, as a rule, object to “foreign” words in English-language texts. Would Beckman call Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart an ethnic glossary? And yet it’s full of untranslated terms, and not just the Big Three: flora, food, and dress. Many of the italicized terms, in Things Fall Apart, force the reader to try to see Igbo culture on its own terms instead of “in translation.”Continue Reading
