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Category: New Translations of Older Works

December 10, 2020

Revolutionary Women from Gallic Books

Reviewed by Karen Langley French literature doesn’t lack a wide range of great women writers; the names which spring most readily to mind are…

September 3, 2020

King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes

Translated by Frank Wynne Reviewed by Annabel I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the…

July 7, 2020

The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories by Joseph Roth

Review by Eleanor Updegraff Translated by Ruth Martin Austrian author Joseph Roth is best known – if indeed he is known at all –…

June 30, 2020

Chitambo by Hagar Olsson

Translated by Sarah Death Reviewed by Karen Langley When we think of Nordic fiction nowadays, we’re probably inevitably aware of the preponderance of Scandi-crime;…

June 30, 2020

Crisis by Karin Boye

Translated by Amanda Doxtater Reviewed by Karen Langley When we think of Nordic fiction nowadays, we’re probably inevitably aware of the preponderance of Scandi-crime;…

June 23, 2020

I Remember by Georges Perec

Introduced, Translated, Annotated, Edited and Indexed by Philip Terry and David Bellos Reviewed by Karen Langley Regular readers of Shiny New Books may recall…

March 24, 2020

Fandango and Other Stories by Alexander Grin

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Karen Langley Recent years have seen a wave of wonderful new translations of ‘lost’ Russian authors of the…

February 20, 2020

Kallocain by Karin Boye

Translated by David McDuff Review by Karen Langley Our modern world often seems to be getting very close to a dystopian nightmare, and most…

February 11, 2020

Abigail by Magda Szabo

Translated by Len Rix Reviewed by Harriet This novel, by the award-winning Hungarian novelist Magda Szabo, was first published in 1970. However, it is…

Stanslaw Lem Tales of Pirx the Pilot Louis Iribarne Penguin
January 23, 2020

Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem

Translated by Louis Iribarne Review by Karen Langley Polish writer Stanislaw Lem was a prolific author of science fiction works, the most well known…

December 10, 2019

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai Reviewed by Harriet This delightful reprint from Pushkin Press is widely viewed as one of Japan’s greatest murder mysteries….

December 3, 2019

The Last Two Maigrets by Georges Simenon

Maigret and the Informer, translated by William HobsonMaigret and Monsieur Charles, translated by Ros Schwarz Review by Basil Ransome-Davies Simenon was a supercharged writing…

November 5, 2019

The Memoir of an Anti-Hero by Kornel Filipowicz

Translated by Anna Zaranko Review by Harriet It could be argued that Anglophone readers are living in a golden age of translated literature; all…

necropolis Vladislav Khodasevich, Sarah Vitali russian lilbrary
August 1, 2019

Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich

Translated by Sarah Vitali Review by Karen Langley, The Russian Library series from Columbia University Press has thrown up some marvellous treasures of literature…

Sentimental tales Mikhail Zoshchenko Boris Dralyuk russian library
August 2, 2018

Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko

Translated by Boris Dralyuk Review by Karen Langley Russian satirical writing has a rich heritage, stretching all the way back to  the  time of…

May 31, 2018

A Dead Rose by Aurora Cáceres

Translation, Foreword & Notes by Laura Kanost Reviewed by Karen Langley The female form is often idealised in art and media, from classical sculptures…

April 10, 2018

The Ropewalker and A People Without a Past by Jaan Kross

Translated by Merike Lepasaar Beecher Reviewed by Gill Davies Thanks to the wonderful Maclehose Press I have discovered another writer in translation who deserves…

Sofia Khvoshchinskaya Nora Favorov city folk country folk russian library
December 7, 2017

City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya

Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov Reviewed by Karen Langley If asked to name any of the great Russian writers of the 19th century, most…

The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe
December 5, 2017

The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe by Franziska zu Reventlow

Translated by  James J. Conway Reviewed by Lizzy Siddal Countess Franziska zu Reventlow was born into the German nobility, and lived in the castle at…

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky edited Bryan Karetnyk
September 19, 2017

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky, edited by Bryan Karetnyk

Reviewed by Karen Langley In the anniversary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution a number of books have been issued which look at that…

rapture iliazd russian library
August 15, 2017

Rapture by Iliazd

Translated by Thomas J. Kitson Reviewed by Karen Langley The early 20th century was a time of great change and upheaval; it produced wars…

June 22, 2017

Letters From Klara and Other Stories by Tove Jansson

Translated by Thomas Teal Reviewed by Kate Gardner This penultimate collection of Finnish literary giant Jansson’s short stories has taken 26 years to be…

June 6, 2017

Maigret Goes to School by Georges Simenon

Translated by Linda Coverdale Reviewed by Harriet What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he’d had the…

August 18, 2016

The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Translated by Dora O’Brien Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky is best known in the west for his novels Crime and Punishment,…

August 10, 2016

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

Translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe Reviewed by Simon Madonna in a Fur Coat, was first published in Turkish in 1943. This translation…

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