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#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed the latest fiction in translation from Akoya, Spanish writer Marta Sanz's wonderfully titled My Clavicle & Other Massive Misalignments (translated by Katie King)

The author deals with middle age & bodily changes in a realistic, but often humorous manner many will recognise. Are these aches and pains serious? They're serious, right? Or are they in her head?

Some medical professionals are helpful, others dismissive, and we realise this is about the way our bodies change in middle age - the aches, the pains, the worry that they signifiy something more, even menopause itself, but tackled in a way that is sympathetic but often humorous.

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Bookseller Joe holding up a copy of My Clavicle and Other Massive Misalignments, to recommend it in the Edinburgh Bookshop

The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård review – can this sprawling epic deliver on its promise? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/25/the-school-of-night-by-karl-ove-knausgard-review #Fictionintranslation #KarlOveKnausgård #Fiction #Culture #Books

#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed Yasuhiko Nishizawa's The Man Who Died Seven Times (pub Pushkin Press), translated by Jesse Kirkwood (who also translated Matsumoto's Tokyo Express, which we loved).

A family murder mystery with a dash of time-loop; think Knives Out meets Groundhog Day!

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Bookseller Joe holding up a copy of The Man Who Died Seven Times, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed the Japanese bestseller, Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada, translated by Philip Gabriel.

Otaha starts working in the library, which archives the literary collection of deceased authors, and where the live-in chef prepares meals based on those in novels.

Ideal for those who enjoyed Before the Coffee Gets Cold, or Days at the Morasaki Bookshop. Out now from Scriber Books

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Bookseller Joe holding up a copy of Harada's Dinners in the Night Library, to recommend it in the Edinburgh Bookshop

Air miles be damned. I say the best way to find out about the joy and complexity of our world is through novels | Pushpinder Khaneka https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/15/air-miles-novels-books-colombia-gabriel-garcia-marquez-news #Fictionintranslation #Worldnews #Fiction #Culture #Reading #UKnews #Books

‘It’s another form of imperialism’: how anglophone literature lost its universal appeal https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/08/its-another-form-of-imperialism-how-anglophone-literature-lost-its-universal-appeal #Fictionintranslation #JonathanFranzen #ElenaFerrante #RobertoBolaño #AnnieErnaux #Culture #HanKang #Books

#LunchtimeReading : You Glow in the Dark, a collection of short stories by Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi , coming October in the UK from Akoya Publishing

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A plain, white advance proof copy of You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi

AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators

UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced work can only be produced by…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/08/globescribe-ai-translation-service-fiction-writers-publishers-prompts-dismay-among-translators

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‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/23/international-booker-prize-winner-banu-mushtaq-deepa-bhasthi-heart-lamp #InternationalBookerprize #Fictionintranslation #Awardsandprizes #Culture #Fiction #Books #India

‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/20/radical-translation-of-heart-lamp-by-banu-mushtaq-wins-international-booker-prize #InternationalBookerprize #Fictionintranslation #Awardsandprizes #Shortstories #Culture #Fiction #Books #India

Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom

Co-organised by translator Polly Barton, Translated By, Bristol will feature conversations between writers and their translators, plus a ‘translation duel’ A new festival of…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/09/translated-by-bristol-festival-literature-translation-translators

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