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Crime in translation
'Few crime readers can have failed to notice the avalanche of foreign crime novels flooding into the bookshops'
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Alastair Reid
Pablo Neruda said to me once, with a twinkle, ‘Don’t just translate my poems, I want you to improve them!’
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Comma Press
Translated short stories from around the world.
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Women's stories from around the world
Telegram Books is raising our awareness of women's lives and writing from other cultures.
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Preface to Les Misérables
"Some of Hugo’s finest writing is in the discursive bits and these are tethered to the narrative of moral struggle by many threads."
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CWA International Dagger
The Crime Writers Association International Dagger is awarded to the best translated crime, thriller, suspense or spy novel.
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Bloomsbury's Good Reading Guide to World Fiction
The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to World Fiction highlights the best modern novels that reflect the culture of a particular location.
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Sleuthing around the world
Jonathan Gibbs tracks down the best sleuths to escape with this summer.
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Andrea Pisac
Exiled writers can sometimes end up downplaying their culture in order to please their new audience. Andrea Pisac explains why.
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Ann Cleeves
'I remember two elderly ladies almost coming to blows as they fought over the last Andrea Camilleri in stock at one of our events.'
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Rossica Prize
Amanda Love Darragh is the winner of the 2009 Rossica Prize.
Find out about the Rossica Prize
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There's a lot going on in the world of translated fiction. Find out about some of it here.
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