February 2021 Book Club Report: Laurent Binet’s HHhH
February 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting February had been a busy month for most of us, what with the CNY celebrations, the on-goings in our personal lives, and the increasing workload that marks the first quarter of the year. The majority of us didn't...
January 2021 Book Club Report: Khaled Khalifa’s Death is Hard Work
January 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting Our book club met up for our first meeting of the year last Saturday, 30 January 2021, at Food for Thought in the National Museum of Singapore. It was really great meeting over drinks and fries, exchanging thoughts...
December 2020 Book Club Report: Ha Seong-nan’s Flowers of Mold
December Translated Literature Book Club Meeting On the last Saturday afternoon of 2020, we held our fifth book club meeting at Shake Shack along Neil Road to discuss Korean writer Ha Seong-nan's Flowers of Mold, translated by Janet Hong. We'd originally planned to...
November 2020 Book Club Report: Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human
November Translated Literature Book Club Meeting On the last Saturday of November, we held our fourth book club meeting at The Moon Cafe to discuss the late Japanese writer Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel No Longer Human, the second bestselling novel ever in Japan. Seated...
Join us for our book club meeting on 28 November!
We're organising our fourth book club meeting on 28 November 2020, Saturday, to discuss the late Japanese writer Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human. Here are the details: Time: 4-6pm Date: 28 November 2020, Saturday Venue: The Moon, 37 Mosque St, Singapore 059515 Book: No...
October 2020 Book Club Report: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone
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....
September 2020 Book Club Report: Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights
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...
August 2020 Book Club Report: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police
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...