8 Women Writers to Read in Translation for International Women’s Day

March 8 is International Women’s Day, and a perfect occasion to discover some great women writers in translation. While Elena Ferrante‘s name has been on everyone’s lips for a while now, and Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018, there are loads of other talented women writers from abroad who haven’t achieved…

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6 Things I Learned at the Albertine Prize Launch Party

It was wonderful to celebrate the launch of the Albertine Prize last night, a new readers’ prize for French fiction published in English translation in 2016, and to discover the shortlist of 10 books. The event was rescheduled from March 14 due to the blizzard, and although there were still mountains of snow in the streets,…