Book Club Report (October 2020)
October Translated Literature Book Club Meeting On the last Saturday of October, we held our third book club meeting at Lowercase to discuss German writer Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone. As with our previous meetings, the cafe was almost full when we arrived....
Book Club Report (September 2020)
September Translated Literature Book Club Meeting We held our second book club meeting on 26 September 2020, Saturday, at The Book Cafe. The cafe was full when we arrived, but thankfully we got seats for five shortly after. The interior was serene and adorned with...
Join us for our book club meeting on 26 September!
We will be organising our second book club meeting on 26 September 2020, Saturday, to discuss Olga Tokarczuk's Flights (translated from Polish), which won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018. Here are the details: Time: 4-6pm Date: 26 September 2020, Saturday...
Book Club Report (August 2020)
Our Inaugural Book Club Meeting We held our first book club meeting in the late afternoon on 29 August 2020, Saturday, at Whisk and Paddle. Over smoothies, tea and an intriguing glass of iced matcha chocolate (in which chocolate milk was poured over a matcha cube),...
Thank you Torque Singapore for the special feature on Dr Hyun-Soon Lee!
We'd like to thank Torque Singapore for the special feature on Dr Hyun-Soon Lee, the author of Buckle Down. You may read Torque's interview (trans. by Hannah Pang) with Dr Lee here: https://www.torque.com.sg/features/alpha-engineer-dr-hyun-soon-lee/. You may also...
Join us for our first book club meeting on 29 August
As restrictions on gatherings have somewhat eased in the second phase of the circuit breaker in Singapore, we'll be launching our book club in August! Harriett Press's Translated Literature Book Club is a monthly book club that meets to exchange thoughts on a...
5 Translated Self-Help E-Books to Read While Staying Home
It’s the second week of ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown in Singapore. The libraries are closed, and online retailers are taking days or even weeks to deliver newly ordered paperbacks. If you will soon run out of reading material, worry not! In the second part of our 5...
5 Translated Pandemic Novels to Read While Social Distancing
From Albert Camus to Orly Castel-Bloom, pandemics have been a muse for non-English writers for decades. The finest non-English writers [note: Albert Camus and Gabriel Garcia Marquez were Nobel Prize winners] have been using diseases and paranoia to connect with...
How to Translate Better (Part 1)
Translators can translate better and produce more accurate translations by reading the original manuscript closely, referring to a source-language dictionary, and setting aside time before deadlines to double-check their work. How to Translate Better It’s difficult...
We have shipped your pre-orders for Grab and Go!
Dear readers, We have shipped the pre-orders for Jim Kim's Grab and Go: A Food Business Millionaire's Secrets to Achieving What He Wants in Life! For readers who have pre-ordered the book, the book will arrive in your mailbox in six to twelve working days. And you'll...