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15 Nov

Two Days of Events with Maryse Condé at the marvellous MUCEM in Marseille, France

November 15, 2022
By Karin Wessel

25 and 26 november: two days of meetings, readings, shows and concerts, all dedicated to Maryse Condé's important work at the marvellous MUCEM museum in Marseille, France. Author of some fort...

01 Nov

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Planet of Clay longlisted for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

November 1, 2022
By Lydia Unsworth

We are happy to share that Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek, and translated by the wonderful Leri Price, has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The winner will be announced ...

31 Oct

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Women on the Verge of a Holy Breakdown

October 31, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Books@Hikayat Hikayat and Gerakbudaya Bookshop (Malaysia) present Women on the Verge of a Holy Breakdown Karina Robles Bahrin and Preeta Samarasan with Mohani Niza Authors Karina Robles Bahrin and...

25 Oct

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Preeta Samarasan meets her readers at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Indonesia

October 25, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Preeta Samarasan meets her readers at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Indonesia IN CONVERSATION WITH TASH AW AND PREETA SAMARASAN Oct. 28, Rumah Buku. Taman Baca, 09,00-10.00 Tash ...

25 Oct

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Preeta Samarasan meets her readers at Lit Books in Selangor, Malaysia

October 25, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Malaysian author Preeta Samarasan will be in conversation with Lit Books’ Fong Min Hun about her new novel Tale of the Dreamer's Son (pub date November 1). When: Sunday 5 November, 8 pm Audience...

12 Oct

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Rodaan Al-Galidi at Cheltenham Literature Festival

October 12, 2022
By Ruth Killick

Rodaan Al-Galidi appeared at this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival, speaking about his new book on the experience of an undocumented asylum seeker in The Netherlands, The Leash and the Ball, heav...

29 Sep

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Two translators on forthcoming publication Fowl Eulogies by Lucie Rico

September 29, 2022
By Lydia Unsworth

Sophie Lewis: Le Chant du poulet sous vide came to me by a fairly standard but nonetheless reliably exciting source: Lucie Rico’s publisher, Vibeke Madsen at Editions POL, highly recommended that I...

26 Sep

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Brooklyn Book Festival launch of Cocoon & Meet the Team

September 27, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Come meet us at our booth 527, 2pm, Sunday October 2nd For the launch of Cocoon by Zhang Yueran Meet the Translator Jeremy Tiang Meet Publisher Judith Uyterlinde and US Director Christine Swe...

26 Sep

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Natalia García Freire and Pierre Jarawan at the Vancouver Writers Fest, October 2022

September 27, 2022
By Karin Wessel

Natalia García Freire, author of This World Does Not Belong to Us, and Pierre Jarawan, author of The Storyteller and Song for the Missing, will be appearing at this year's Vancouver Writers Fest in O...

24 Aug

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Ian McEwan praises Zhang Yueran’s upcoming novel Cocoon

August 24, 2022
By Ruth Killick

Thank you to Ian McEwan for this stunning endorsement of Cocoon, to be published in October! “Cocoon is a stupendous novel, a beautiful and formidable achievement on the grandest scale. Its ruthles...