Fiction in translation

Charco Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize for ‘gut-punch’ novel

Of Cattle and Men by Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry, is set in a slaughterhouse in an isolated corner of Brazil

Ella Creamer

17, Apr, 2024 @7:30 PM

Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators

While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future income

Ella Creamer

16, Apr, 2024 @5:49 PM

Maryse Condé obituary

Writer whose novels trace the complexities of a globalised world and the fortunes of families across continents and generations

Louise Hardwick

12, Apr, 2024 @5:30 PM

Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists

Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction

Madeleine Feeny

12, Apr, 2024 @3:07 PM

Six ‘implicitly optimistic’ novels make the International Booker prize shortlist

From books about disintegrating relationships and countries to a worker’s-eye view of Korea and a story of farmers in Brazil, the selected titles engage with current realities, say the judging panel

Ella Creamer

09, Apr, 2024 @1:00 PM

Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean 'grand storyteller' dies aged 90

Author of novels drawing on African and Caribbean history enjoyed international acclaim, including the New Academy prize, which stood in for the Nobel in 2018

Sian Cain

02, Apr, 2024 @8:51 AM

The best translated fiction – review roundup

Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, Your Utopia by Bora Chung, The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig and Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes

John Self

29, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

Before the Queen Falls Asleep by Huzama Habayeb review – a memory palace built in exile

The Palestinian author’s second novel in translation is an affecting portrait of one displaced family’s inescapable relationship with the past

Lucy Popescu

24, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM

AI translation: how to train ‘the horses of enlightenment’

Translation algorithms have greatly improved in recent years, but can they work on literature? Human practitioners of the art are not convinced

Anna Aslanyan

15, Mar, 2024 @12:12 PM

Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

Works from the continent make up a quarter of this year’s nominees, which include novels from Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru

Ella Creamer

11, Mar, 2024 @2:06 PM

Butter by Asako Yuzuki review – a tasty exposé of fatphobia and trauma

In this Japanese bestseller based on a real-life case, food unites a journalist and a cook turned murderer in a frequently thrilling tale of fatphobia

Josh Weeks

10, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will

The Colombian Nobel laureate’s children have published Until August a decade after their father’s death, despite the author’s wish that it should be destroyed

Alex Clark

08, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM