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Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 November 2020

A translated novel: a team effort

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  Nicky Harman reads Zhang Ling’s latest historical novel, A Single Swallow (Amazon Crossing, 2020 .) One of the best-written novels I’ve...
Wednesday, 21 October 2020

The Girl who did a Strip-Dance, by Wang Bang, translated by Nicky Harman

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  In this post, Nicky Harman translates an article by Wang Bang, a writer, film-maker and translator based in the UK and featured here in Se...
Friday, 25 September 2020

Translation goes in both directions

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Nicky Harman writes: It seems obvious that there is literary translation from English into Chinese, as well as from Chinese into English, ...
Friday, 11 September 2020

New Japanese short fiction: One Love Chigusa

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Soji Shimada is one of Japan’s best selling mystery writers. His latest work One Love Chigusa has been published in English as part of the R...
Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Bookworm

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Countries across the globe are currently enforcing various types of social restrictions to help reduce the infection rate of Covid-19. Under...
Wednesday, 27 May 2020

How Paper Republic ended up leading what is possibly the world’s biggest collaborative translation

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Nicky Harman writes about translating Chinese authors' reflections on Covid19, post-lockdown. At the risk of blowing my (or at least, ...
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Nicky Harman interviews Avery Fischer Udagawa translator extraordinaire of children's and young adult fiction, and much more besides

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NH: I'm delighted to be interviewing Avery Fischer Udagawa , because I have a huge admiration for translators who focus on young readers...
Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Translating literary works from the Malay world, Nazry Bahrawi in conversation with Nicky Harman

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Dr Nazry Bahrawi, Singapore University of Technology & Design What aroused your interest in translation, and what was the first...
Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Reading (and writing) about someplace else: Mishi Saran

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Nicky Harman interviews Mishi Saran, writer of fiction and non-fiction, and long-time resident of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Mishi Saran, pho...
Wednesday, 26 February 2020

In Homage to the first Buddhist translators, and Martha Cheung

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Nicky Harman on “ Buddhism ” a wonderful exhibition in London’s British Library displaying Buddhist art and literature from all over Ea...
Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Prizes and parties...

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Some end-of-year thoughts from Nicky Harman In my more pessimistic moments, I feel Chinese novels translated into English are a hard s...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019

My Travels in Ding Yi. Nicky Harman looks at the latest translated novel from Shi Tiesheng

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One of the most interesting novels to come out in translation this year is My Travels in Ding Yi (ACA Publishing, 2019) by Shi Tiesheng (...
Wednesday, 25 September 2019

The History of a Place in a Single Object, with Multiple Variations

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Nicky Harman looks at translating tools, and it's more fascinating than you'd think. It’s not often that I, as a translator, get...
Wednesday, 24 July 2019

PEN TRANSLATES' WILL FORRESTER: IN CONVERSATION WITH NICKY HARMAN

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  NICKY HARMAN interviews WILL FORRESTER, International and Translation Manager at English PEN, where he runs PEN TRANSLATES, the major...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

A New Kid on the Block for Literary Nonprofits

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Paper Republic is proud to announce that it is now a UK-registered charity no. 1182259 . Paper Republic was set up by Eric Abra...
Friday, 15 March 2019

Asian titles on the Man Booker International Prize longlist

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The Man Booker International Prize celebrates the finest works of fiction from around the world, if they have been translated into English. ...

China Dispatches: the best creative non-fiction available now

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Paper Republic promotes Chinese literature in English translation. It highlights new writing from contemporary Chinese writers. Along with...
Friday, 8 March 2019

Indonesia as London Book Fair Market Focus 2019

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The London Book Fair is one of the global marketplaces for publishers. This year's fair takes place next week. Each year, the fair cho...
Friday, 8 February 2019

米兔. 米兔 / rice rabbit Chinese word of the year

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Following on from last week's post about the Oxford Dictionaries Hindi word of 2018 , Paper Republic have nominated their Chinese wor...
Friday, 1 February 2019

Paper Republic 2018 roll call of translations

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Paper Republic promotes Chinese literature in English translation. It focusses on new writing from contemporary Chinese writers. Balanced ...