Lost in Translations

Episode 38 - Interview with Ellen Jones & Robin Myers

I am lucky enough to have translators Ellen Jones and Robin Myers to talk about The Forgery by Ave Barrera

Mentioned in this episode;

• Charco Press
• SouthWest Review
• Movie Marathon by Ave Barrera (Translated by Robin Myers)
• Salt Crystals by Cristina Bendek (Translated by Robin Myers)
• Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes (Translated by Ellen Jones)
• Juan Rulfo

 

Find Ellen Jones online

• Website
• Twitter: @ellen_c_jones

Find Robin Myers online

• Website
• Twitter: @robin_ep_myers

 

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Episode 37 - Homecoming

Join Mary and I as we discuss Homecoming by Anna Enquist (translated by Eileen J. Stevens)

Mentioned in this episode;

• Disoriental by Negar Djavadi (translated by Tina Kover)
• #WITMonth

Read_WIT online

• Twitter: Read_WIT
• Instagram: ReadWIT
• Website: https://www.womenintranslation.org/

Find Mary online

• Twitter: jus_de_fruit
• Instagram: jus_de_fruit

  

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Episode 36 - Interview about 3 Times Rebel

Join me as I interview Bibiana Mas about the new 3 Times Rebel

Podcast Transcript coming soon

I do apologise, my microphone caused a lot of issues in this episode and I did attempt to clean it up as much as possible, thankfully Bibiana Mas came across clearly.

Links for this episode;

• 3 Times Rebel
• Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre (translated from Basque by Kristin Addis)
• Dead Lands by Núria Bendicho (translated from Catala by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent)
• Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz (translated by Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff)
• Charco Press
• Anna Pont
• Open Letter
• Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre (translated from Spanish by Katie Whittemore)

 

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Episode 35 - What Have You Been Reading?

Join Mary and I as we discuss our recent reading highlights 

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Mentioned in this episode;

• The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen (translated by Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman)
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)
• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle)
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel (translated by Ros Schwartz)
• Kulinmaya! Keep Listening, Everybody! by Mumu Mike Williams
• Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent & Jukuna Mona Chuguna (additional writing and translations by Pat Lowe & Eirlys Richards)
• Magabala Books
• Invisible Cities Reading Project
• No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani (translated by Omid Tofighian)
• Who Gets to Be Smart by Bri Lee
• Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
• The Little Girl in the Ice Floe by Adelaïde Bon (translated by Tina A. Kover)
• The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
• An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
• The Homecoming by Anna Enquist (translated by Eileen Stevens)

 

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Episode 34 - Winter in Sokcho

Join Mary, Rachel (Books for Rachel) and I as we discuss Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin (translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

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Mentioned in this episode;

• Book For Rachel's review of Winter in Sokcho
• The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
• Jennifer Croft
• Two Lines Press
• Scribd
• Interview with Elisa Shua Dusapin from Platform
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (translated by Jamie Chang)
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)
• The Little Girl in the Ice Floe by Adelaïde Bon (translated by Tina A. Kover)
• Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (translated by Alison Watts)
• Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)

 
Find Rachel online

• Instagram: booksforrachel
• Blog: Books for Rachel 

 

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Episode 33 - The Disaster Tourist

Join me and Steph (Time to Read!) as we discuss The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun (translated by Lizzie Buehler)

Podcast Transcript coming soon

Mentioned in this episode;

• Out by Natsuo Kirino (translated by Stephen Snyder)
• Episode on Out
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• Indie Press Project
• Invisible Cities Reading Project
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (translated by Jamie Chang)
• Episode on Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
• Scribd
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Stephen King
• Counterpoint Press
• Serpent’s Tail
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
• La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (translated by Lawrence Schimel)
• By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (translated by Jethro Soutar)
• Roberto Bolaño
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
• Savage Detective by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
• Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
• Samantha Schweblin
• Alejandra Zambra
• Deborah Smith
• Tina Kover
• Edith Grossman
• Sophie Hughes
• Dead Girls by Selva Almada (translated by Annie McDermott)
• Amazon Crossing
• The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman)
• Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman)
• Charco Press
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• We Were Not Men by Campbell Mattinson 
• Infidels by Abdellah Taïa (translated by Alison L. Strayer)
• Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra (translated by Megan McDowell)
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

 
Find Steph online

• Booktube: Time to Read!
• Twitter: timetoread___
• Goodreads: Stephanie
    

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Episode 32 - Amora

Join Mary and I as we discuss Amora by Natalia Borges Polesso (translated by Julia Sanches)

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Mentioned in this episode;

• Invisible Cities Reading Project
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neervan
• Baghdad Burning by Toufic El Rassi
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Infidels by Abdellah Taïa (translated by Alison L. Strayer)

 

Find Mary online

• Twitter: jus_de_fruit
• Instagram: jus_de_fruit
    

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Episode 31 - Return to the Enchanted Island

Join Mary and I as we discuss Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson (translated by Allison M. Charette)

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Mentioned in this episode;

• Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo (translated by Allison M. Charette
• Shrill (2019)
• Dodo Vole Publishing
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Deviant Women episode on Ranavalona
• Nancy by Bruno Lloret (translated by Ellen Jones)
• Invisible Cities Reading Project

 

Find Mary online

• Twitter: jus_de_fruit
• Instagram: jus_de_fruit
    

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Episode 30 - International Booker 2021

In this episode we are talking about the International Booker Longlist 2021

Podcast Transcript Coming Soon

Mentioned in this episode;

• The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
• Earthling by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
• I Live in the Slums by Can Xue (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping)
• At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated Anna Moschovakis)
• The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated by Elizabeth Heighway)
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (translated by Adrian Nathan West)
• The Perfect Nine: The Epic Gikuyu and Mumbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (translated by the author)
• The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken)
• Summer Brother by Jaap Robben (translated by David Doherty)
• An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (translated by Jackie Smith)
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
• In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (translated by Sasha Dugdale)
• Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý (translated by Nichola Smalley)
• The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard (translated by Mark Polizzotti)

 

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Episode 29 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Join Mary and I as we discuss Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)

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Mentioned in this episode;

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)
• Cafe Funiculi Funicula (2018)
• BabyMetal
• Bookworm Man
• Invisible Cities Reading Project
• Sex and Lies by Leïla Slimani (translated by Sophie Lewis)
• Zama (2017)
• Neighbuzz Podcast
• Neighbours
• Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarac (translated by Roy Kesey)
• Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra (translated by Megan McDowell)
• Ex-Libris by Anne Fadiman
• The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by Noelle Stevenson
• You Were Made For Me by Jenna Guillaume
• Themystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh

 

Find Mary online

• Twitter: jus_de_fruit
• Instagram: jus_de_fruit
    

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