At the London Book Fair, a Look at Translations from Spain and the Balkans  

Two panels at the LBF's Literary Translation Center last week explored getting languages from two regions into English, and the difficulty of coming from a small yet complex territory.
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𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀: 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 -

Here are the best fiction books I read through 2024. Full reviews at waywordsstudio. com.

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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻 -

Hemon's tight crafting of sentence and omissions is a slow burn opening into history, politics, and identity, obscure and satisfying.

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁” 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻 -

Powerful writing on the history of Jewish immigration, Bosnian war and alienation, and the consequences of identity and truth-telling.

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻 -

On my shelf for some time, a novelized examination of the historical murder of a Jewish teen in Chicago, 1908. Definitely a little outside my typical reads!

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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

The next pile of books to immerse myself in!

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"The world and all that it holds" by
Aleksandar Hemon
is an immense and lyrical novel like no other - a story of love and war. Grab a signed copy from our bookshop before they're gone.

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