Fiction in translation

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• Reading group: searching for meaning in Kafka

  21 Oct 2014: Writing so slippery is hard to define - but it also demonstrates a chilling truth about us, the readers, writes Sam Jordison

• Reading group: what if Kafka's books had been burned?

  14 Oct 2014: ‘Kafkaesque’ would have a very different definition if Max Brod had consigned his friend’s unpublished manuscripts to the flames as requested, writes Sam Jordison

• Literary dystopias with Emily St John Mandel and Clemens J Setz – podcast

  Audio (25min 22sec), 10 Oct 2014:

  We look to a troubling future with novels from Emily St John Mandel and Clemens J Setz

• Chasing Lost Time: The Life of CK Scott Moncrieff by Jean Findlay – review

  20 Sep 2014:

  Passionate, risk-taking, aesthetically conservative: a compendious biography of Proust's great interpreter reveals the paradoxes of his varied careers. By DJ Taylor

• Leo Tolstoy: an epic Google doodle for novelist of 'astonishing scope and vigour'

  9 Sep 2014:

  Artist Roman Muradov's gallery represents the major works of the great Russian novelist on his 186th birthday

• Anna Karenina – the devil in the details

  5 Sep 2014: Do we need another translation of Anna Karenina? Rosamund Bartlett explores the challenges of Tolstoy's vivid colloquial language

• Haruki Murakami's first novel to be retranslated and republished in English

  5 Sep 2014: Hear the Wind Sing – currently out of print – gets fresh translation by Ted Goossen, set for release in 2015

• In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González review – a tragedy foretold

  30 Aug 2014: Juan Gabriel Vásquez acclaims the English translation of Colombia's best-kept secret

• British readers lost in translations as foreign literature sales boom

  24 Aug 2014: Popular Scandinavian authors including Jo Nesbø and Stieg Larsson drive growing domestic demand for translated books

• The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe review – Romain Puértolas deserves the plaudits

  17 Aug 2014:

  This French bestseller lives up to its whimsical title without descending into quirkiness, writes Ben East

• The perfect Proust translation – but not for purists

  15 Aug 2014:

  The first translation of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, by CK Scott Moncrieff, may be a personal interpretation, but it's a masterpiece in itself, writes Jean Findlay

• The Dark Meadow review – Andrea Maria Schenkel's murder mystery 'packs a lingering punch'

  27 Jul 2014:

  Schenkel returns with an excellent dark tale set in postwar rural Germany, writes Alison Flood

• Land of No Rain by Amjad Nasser review – an exile returns home

  17 Jul 2014: This irresistible shape-shifting novel harks back to classical Arabic forms. By M Lynx Qualey

• The Dark Road review – Ma Jian's devastating attack on Chinese oppression

  29 Jun 2014:

  Shafts of humour help to illuminate this brilliantly bleak satire on the 'one family, one child' policy, writes Alexander Larman

• Impac prize judge Maya Jaggi: how we chose this year's winner

  12 Jun 2014: Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez is not a lone talent, but part of a rising generation of authors just hitting their stride, writes Maya Jaggi

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