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Tag Archives: translated literature

Book review: Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi (Finland)

Speculative fiction from Finland, with strange finds on a 19th century anthropological mission

Posted byimogenglad28th Jan 202328th Jan 2023Posted inbookTags: Europe, Finland, books, fiction, female writers, translated literature, fantasy, Virve Sammalkorpi, NORDICfinds235 Comments on Book review: Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi (Finland)

Body Kintsugi by Senka Marić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

A Bosnian novel of sickness and recovery informed by personal experience

Posted byimogenglad27th Nov 2022Posted inbookTags: Body Kintsugi, books, bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, female writers, novella, novellasinnovember, Peirene, Senka Maric, translated literature1 Comment on Body Kintsugi by Senka Marić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Germany)

Classic tale of a disturbing, febrile obsession

Posted byimogenglad13th Nov 2022Posted inbookTags: books, classic literature, classics, Death in Venice, Europe, German literature, germany, novnov, Thomas Mann, translated literature9 Comments on Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Germany)

We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)

A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation

Posted byimogenglad21st Aug 2022Posted inbookTags: 20booksofsummer, 20booksofsummer22, books, dystopia, Europe, female writers, fiction, Netherlands, translated literature4 Comments on We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)

Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)

Contemporary short stories from Ukraine

Posted byimogenglad23rd Jul 202223rd Jul 2022Posted inbookTags: 20booksofsummer22, books, Europe, female writers, fiction, Oksana Zabuzhko, short stories, translated literature, ukraine1 Comment on Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)

Claudine’s House by Colette (France)

Colette’s evocative memoir of a rural, animal-laden and loving French childhood

Posted byimogenglad16th Jul 202223rd Jul 2022Posted inbookTags: 1922, books, childhood, Claudine's House, Colette, Europe, female writers, France, memoir, translated literature5 Comments on Claudine’s House by Colette (France)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)

Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s

Posted byimogenglad9th Jul 202210th Jul 2022Posted inbookTags: books, dystopia, Europe, fiction, russia, translated literature, Yevgeny Zamyatin1 Comment on We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)

In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)

Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia

Posted byimogenglad3rd Jul 20223rd Jul 2022Posted inbookTags: 20bookofsummer, 20booksofsummer22, biography, books, conflict, Europe, female writers, russia, russian literature, second world war, translated literature, trauma8 Comments on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)

My 20 Books of Summer 2022

I’ve chosen my 20 books of summer.

Posted byimogenglad28th May 20226th Aug 2022Posted inbookTags: 20booksofsummer, book challenge, books, female writers, fiction, non-fiction, translated literature10 Comments on My 20 Books of Summer 2022

I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue (Norway)

A thought-provoking, Barbellion Prize-longlisted memoir on living with disability by Norwegian academic Jan Grue

Posted byimogenglad2nd May 2022Posted inbookTags: Barbellion Prize, books, disability, Europe, life writing, life-writing, memoir, non-fiction, Norway, prize nominees, translated literature2 Comments on I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue (Norway)

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