Women's writing in translation is a HUGE world. We're exploring it one small chat at a time.

In episode 1, Sophie Baggott from Wales Arts Review talks with English PEN's Translation Manager, Theodora Danek.


Books recommended:

‘Abandon’ and ‘Panty’ by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, transl. Arunava Sinha (Tilted Axis Press)

‘Go Went Gone’, ‘Visitation’ and ‘The End of Days’ by Jenny Erpenbeck, transl. Susan Bernofsky (Portobello Books)

‘Arturo’s Island’ (transl. Isabel Quigley, currently out of print) and ‘History’ (transl. William Weaver, Penguin Modern Classics) by Elsa Morante


Music credit: Dee Yan Key


Links:

www.walesartsreview.org

www.englishpen.org    /    www.pentransmissions.com

bookSHElf 1: talking translation with English PEN

Women's writing in translation is a HUGE world. We're exploring it one small chat at a time.

In episode 2, Sophie Baggott from Wales Arts Review talks with the Man Booker International Prize-winning translator Jennifer Croft.

Follow us on Twitter (@WalesArtsReview or @sophieb30) and you can find Jennifer at @jenniferlcroft.

Music credit: Dee Yan Key

bookSHElf 2 with Man Booker Intl. Prize-winning translator Jennifer Croft

Women's writing in translation is a HUGE world. We're exploring it one small chat at a time.

In episode 3, Sophie Baggott from Wales Arts Review talks with Swiss writer Michelle Steinbeck and London-based translator/writer Jen Calleja about their new book, My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water.

Follow us on Twitter, @WalesArtsReview or @sophieb30.

Music credit: Dee Yan Key

bookSHElf 3 with writer Michelle Steinbeck & translator Jen Calleja

Women's writing in translation is a HUGE world. We're exploring it one small chat at a time.

In episode 4, Sophie Baggott from Wales Arts Review talks with Helen Vassallo from Exeter University, who reviews books by women in translation on her excellent blog Translating Women.

Follow us on Twitter, @WalesArtsReview, @sophieb30 and @TranslateWomen.

Music credit: Dee Yan Key