The award-winning Japanese writer Hiromi Kawakami first came to prominence with her beautiful, meditative novella Strange Weather in Tokyo (tr. Allison Markin Powell), which was shortlisted for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (now merged with the International Booker). First published in Japanese in 2016 and translated into English in 2024, Under the Eye of the […]| JacquiWine's Journal
Translator Caroline Wazer and author Bénédicte Sère talk about the origins of Inventing the Church & the complexities of translating terms from Church history. The post Bénédicte Sère and Caroline Wazer in Conversation About Inventing the Church first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.| Columbia University Press Blog
After I finished by #10BooksofSummer I thought I would read something for #WomeninTranslation month. Lesson to be drawn from that is – do your research properly before leaping to the download…| Volatile Rune
The critically acclaimed novelist, essayist and screenwriter Eileen Chang was one of the greatest chroniclers of Chinese life in the 20th century. In Love in a Fallen City, an insightful, exquisite…| JacquiWine's Journal
If you follow the International Booker Prize, the name Solvej Balle will be familiar to you. This critically acclaimed Danish writer scored a hit in the 1990s with According to the Law: Four Accoun…| JacquiWine's Journal
Week of July 27-August 2, 2025 Sunday – I hadn’t driven Bugsy since we went to the store on July 7th so I figured I had better see if he was even still running. He started up just fine …| The Intrepid Angeleno
If you’re a fan of Mariana Enriquez’s dark, deeply disturbing stories on the horrors rooted in Argentina’s history, you will love Hungry for What, a ferocious collection of short fiction from Spani…| JacquiWine's Journal
