by Harriett Press | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
April 2022 Harriett Book Club It was no doubt a pity that in the end Lizzie, the translator of Korean Teachers, couldn’t join us for our online book club because of technical difficulties on her side. I’m not gonna lie that I’m disappointed the book launch was...
by Harriett Press | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
March 2022 Harriett Book Club Before our book club meeting in March, I asked our members for help via our WhatsApp group chat: how do we define science fiction? I’d started to read a few chapters of Broken Stars, an anthology of 16 Chinese science fiction stories...
by Harriett Press | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
February 2022 Harriett Book Club We were so fortunate to have renowned Marathi writer and film maker Sachin Kundalkar join our February book club to shed more light into his debut novel, Cobalt Blue, which, his own words, has been beautifully translated by Jerry...
by Harriett Press | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
January 2022 Harriett Book Club We were pretty excited about our first book club of 2022 as we were expecting a guest for the first time: Anton Hur, translator of Korean writer Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny! We also all finished reading Cursed Bunny. It had been some time...
by Harriett Press | Jan 8, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
December 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting The last book our book club read for 2021 was Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Jose Saramago’s Blindness, translated by Giovanni Pontiero. While preparing for the book club, I read up a little...
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