January 2023 Book Club Our book club wasn’t able to meet up the last few months of last year because of our busy schedules, so we decided to combine two books and discuss them in January! It was great seeing each other online again and exchanging views on translated...

July Book Club Originally published in Russian in 2009 and translated into English in 2011, Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov’s Milkman in the Night (tr. Amanda Love Darragh) offers a mixture of everyday ordinary Ukrainian life, absurdism, and magicalism of sorts. Our...

June 2022 Harriett Book Club At Night All Blood is Black by French writer David Diop (tr. Anna Moschovakis) is probably one of the shortest novels our book club has read so far, but man, it packs a punch! Diop’s ability to portray a myriad of men’s emotions and the...

May 2022 Harriett Book Club Bodies, bodies, bodies. If there were a specific theme in Argentinian novelist Claudia Pineiro’s Elena Knows (tr. Frances Riddle), it would be hideous, infirm, malformed bodies, the way they move and feel and think, as well as how religion...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...