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Category Archives: Translation

New Murakami Novel Out in August 2014

Posted on February 22, 2014 by goldcoastbooklovers

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

 

Haruki Murakami

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Now Reading My Brilliant Friend

Posted on October 15, 2013 by goldcoastbooklovers

And it’s quite good

Praise for Elena Ferrante 

ferrante

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What Do You Look for in Modern Translation?

Posted on October 9, 2013 by goldcoastbooklovers

By the fab Daniel Mendelsohn and Dana Stevens

Via NYT

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Found in translation

Posted on September 20, 2013 by goldcoastbooklovers

Now published in the UK, following last year’s American edition courtesy of McSweeney’s, Multiples: 12 stories in 18 languages by 61 authors is a paradox: it is full of copies that are also originals.

Via The Times Lit Supplement

 

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U.Va. Student Redefines Academic Study of Argentinian Author

Posted on June 1, 2012 by goldcoastbooklovers

Ineteresting take on J L Borges, read here

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The Benefits of Being Bilingual

Posted on May 20, 2012 by goldcoastbooklovers

So it’s not all bad to be an immigrant!

Via Wired

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50th Anniversary of a Classic

Posted on April 2, 2012 by goldcoastbooklovers

A little known classic

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Jose Zaramago Serialized – Part1

Posted on March 17, 2012 by goldcoastbooklovers

Via Guernica Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this issue, Guernica serialised Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, whose fable on the rebellion of Things appears in a new collection of stories in English.

Click here to read part1

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Norwegian Wood

Posted on October 16, 2011 by goldcoastbooklovers

Movie based on Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood is now showing at Palace Barracks Brisbane.

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Argentinian Writer César Aira Explodes Novel Myths

Posted on August 15, 2011 by goldcoastbooklovers

Click on pic to read, Via The Wheeler Centre

 

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