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Elsa on the Longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! And what an extraordinary list of amazing books in translation it is! Let’s read them all!

Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante Translated by Jenny McPhee #NameTheTranslator Longlist 2025 The 14 longlisted titles are: Johanna Ekstrรถm and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Dรฉsirรฉe Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Fatma Aydemir, Djinns, translated …

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In Praise of Wisdom…and Another Shortlist and a Prize for Elsa!

The oldest known wild bird laid an egg Researchers have been tracking an albatross named Wisdom since 1956, when she was 5 and Dwight Eisenhower was president. Her longevity has for decades amazed scientists, who expect birds like her to live closer to 30 years. Then, last week, she stunned them again byย laying an egg …

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A Shortlist Nomination! We love Prizes! Especially when they showcase literature in translation!

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to announce the 2024 shortlists for the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA), and ALTA First Translation Prize! The winners of these awards will be announced at ALTAโ€™s annual awards ceremony, which will take place on …

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My Take On Sally Rooney’s Latest @ Air Mail

โ€œThe hardest disappointment is in feeling that Iโ€™ve failed to do justice to my characters.โ€ Intermezzo byย Sally Rooney Reviewed by Jenny McPhee Reading this novel,โ€ Sally Rooney wrote in her introduction to Natalia Ginzburgโ€™sย All Our Yesterdays,ย โ€œwe get to know its characters as if they were our own friends, or even ourselves. Many of them are …

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My Latest Book Review @ Air Mail

Halfway through Claire Messudโ€™s sprawling new novel, the 31-year-old Franรงois reflects on his grand aspirations: โ€œHe wanted to experience everything, from the rocky iguana-covered outcrops of the Galรกpagos to the sumptuous palaces of Jaipur, from a gelatinous platter of steamed sea cucumber in a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur or a tear-inducing curry in Macao to …

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