Episodes
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Episode 35 - What Have You Been Reading?
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Join Mary and I as we discuss our recent reading highlights
Podcast Transcript coming soon
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)
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Saturday May 15, 2021
Episode 31 - Return to the Enchanted Island
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
Join Mary and I as we discuss Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson (translated by Allison M. Charette)
Podcast Transcript coming soon
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
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Episode 30 - International Booker 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 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)
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Episode 29 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Join Mary and I as we discuss Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)
Podcast Transcript coming soon
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
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Episode 28 - Best Books of 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
My Guest is Derek Maine and Dan from Weird Book Book Club and we are talking about our favourite books of 2020.
This was taken from a live show, if you want to see that.
Podcast Transcript Coming Soon
Mentioned in this episode;
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (translated by Jamie Chang)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (translated by David Raeburn)
- The Time of Year by Marie NDiaye (translated by Jordan Stump)
- Flieshman is in Trouble by by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Free Day by Inès Cagnati (translated by Liesl Schillinger)
- The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
- Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd)
- Life (A User Manual) by Georges Perec (translated by David Bellos)
- The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue (translated by Pablo Strauss)
- Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
- A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti (translated by Fionn Petch)
- Older Brother by Mahir Guven (translated by Tina Kover)
- Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
- EEG by Daša Drndić (translated by Celia Hawkesworth)
Find Derek online
- Twitter: derekmainelives
- YouTube: Derek Maine
Find Dan online
- Twitter: WeirdBBC
- YouTube: Weird Book Book Club
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Episode 27 - Crime and Punishment
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
My Guest is Derek Maine and we are talking about Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Oliver Ready)
Podcast Transcript Coming Soon
Mentioned in this episode;
- The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa (translated by Samantha Schnee)
- Live Show on Satire
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Hugh Aplin)
- Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney)
- William Faulkner
- Candide by Voltaire (translated by Theo Cuffe)
- Vengeance in Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan (translated by Annie Tucker)
- Revenge of a Translator by Brice Matthieussent (translated by Emma Ramadan)
- Revolutions
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati (translated by Antony Shugaar)
- Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan (translated by Annie Tucker)
- Scribd
Find Derek online
- Twitter: derekmainereads
- YouTube: Read The World!
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Episode 26 - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Join Mary and I as we discuss Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (translated by Jamie Chang)
Podcast Transcript coming soon
Mentioned in this episode;
- 2020 Global Pay Gap
- Bombshell (2019)
- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd)
- The Dutchess (2020)
- Mrs America (2020)
- Catastrophe (2015)
- The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
- Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Find Mary online
- Twitter: jus_de_fruit
- Instagram: jus_de_fruit
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Episode 24 - Hurricane Season
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
My Guest is Derek Maine and we are talking about Hurrican Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
** Delay in episode releases due to illness, apologies **
Podcast Transcript Coming Soon
Mentioned in this episode;
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Don DeLillo
- Thomas Pynchon
- Raymond Carver
- John Cheever
- Falconer by John Cheever
- Libra by Don DeLillo
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Rosamund Bartlett)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Aylmer & Louise Maude)
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Hugh Aplin)
- In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (translated by Harry Willets)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (translated by Alison Anderson)
- Submission by Michel Houellebecq (translated by Lorin Stein)
- One Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Chris Andrews)
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
- The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Oliver Ready)
- César Aira
- Enrique Vila-Matas
- Damian Kelleher
- László Krasznahorkai
- Six Minutes to Me
- Weird Book Book Club
- Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (translated by Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff)
- An Orphan World by Giuseppe Caputo (translated by Sophie Hughes & Juana Adcock)
- 2666 review by The Weird Book Book Club
- Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad (translated by Agnes Scott Langeland)
- Review by Derek
- Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins)
- Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
- Shawn the Book Manic
- Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas (translated by Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie Hughes)
- Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette (translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)
- Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury)
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Interview with Sophie Hughes
- City of Gods (2003)
- Dennis Cooper
- The Last Wolf by László Krasznahorkai (translated by John Batki & George Szirtes)
- Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai (translated by Ottilie Mulzet)
- Ducks, Newsburyport by Lucy Ellmann
- Agnese from Beyond the Epilogue
- Charles Bukowski
- International Booker Prize Shortlist 2020
- New Directions
- Fitzcarraldo Press
- Closer by Dennis Cooper
- The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
- Review of The Sluts by CravingBooks
Find Derek online
- Twitter: derekmainereads
- YouTube: Read The World!
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Episode 23 - Interview with Sophie Hughes
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Join me as I interview translator Sophie Hughes about her process and the books she has translated and Europa28.
Podcast Transcript coming soon
Books translated by Sophie Hughes mentioned in this episode;
- Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún
- Umami by Laia Jufresa
- The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse by Iván Repila
- Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas (with Margaret Jull Costa)
- The Hole by José Revueltas (with Amanda Hopkinson)
- Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
- Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe (edited with Sarah Cleave)
- The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Coming soon
- Las homicidas by Alia Trabucco Zerán
- Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro
- Aquí no es Miami by Fernanda Melchor
Other mentions
- Shaun Whiteside
- Javier Marías
- Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
- The Infatuations by Javier Marías (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Ann Morgan
- Charco Press
- The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh)
- The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin)
- Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
- Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins)
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)
- Roberto Bolaño
Follow Sophie Hughes on Twitter
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Bonus Episode: The BTBA Longlist 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
My Guest is Derek Maine and we are talking about the BTBA Longlist 2020
Podcast Transcript Coming Soon
Mentioned in this episode;
- The Wind that Lays Waste by Selva Almada, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews (Argentina, Graywolf)
- The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright (Iraq, Yale University Press)
- Welcome to America by Linda Boström Knausgård, translated from the Swedish by Martin Aitken (Sweden, World Editions)
- Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated from the French by Frank Wynne (France, Grove)
- Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes, translated from the French by Frank Wynne (France, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Italy, Europa Editions)
- EEG by Daša Drndić, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth (Croatia, New Directions)
- Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Chile, Graywolf)
- Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (Russia, New York Review Books)
- Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, translated from the Spanish by Sara Moses and Carolina Orloff (Argentina, Charco Press)
- Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Verso)
- Good Will Come From the Sea by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich (Greece, Archipelago Books)
- Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated from the Spanish by Achy Obejas (Dominican Republic, And Other Stories)
- China Dream by Ma Jian, translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew (China, Counterpoint)
- Parade by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell (Japan, Soft Skull)
- Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (Syria, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Boy by Marcus Malte, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge (France, Restless Books)
- The Cheffe: A Cook’s Novel by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordon Stump (France, Knopf)
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (Japan, Pantheon)
- A Dream Come True by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (Uruguay, Archipelago Books)
- 77 by Guillermo Saccomanno, translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger (Argentina, Open Letter Books)
- Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated from the Italian by Aaron Robertson (Italy, Two Lines Press)
- Labyrinth by Burhan Sönmez, translated from the Turkish by Umit Hussein (Turkey, Other Press)
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Poland, Riverhead)
- Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt (Japan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Find Derek online
- Twitter: derekmainereads
- YouTube: Read The World!
Social Media links
- Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com
- Twitter: @translationspod
- Instagram: translationspod
- Litsy: @translationspod
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/
Produced by Mccauliflower.