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...
by Harriett Press | Dec 9, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
November 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting Wait, what? He watched as her head started to twist. No, not just her head. Her entire body was turning. He now realised her body had been facing away from him at first, but her head… And now both head and body had...
by Harriett Press | Nov 4, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
October 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting We were supposed to discuss Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha’s The Wandering in September, but I had to cancel our meeting at the last minute because of my poor health. I guess that gave us more time to explore...
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