Translating Ulysses for Iran
Iranian-Canadian novelist and translator Akram Pedramnia writes on translating James Joyce into Persian, evading the censors, and imperial co-option of resistance.
PEN Transmissions
Articles
With this Novel, I Return: An Interview with Rafik Schami
Syrian-German novelist Rafik Schami discusses liberty, storytelling, language and exile.
Always Against the Idols: A Conversation with Chus Pato and Erín Moure
Galician poet Chus Pato and Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure discuss collaboration, Francoism, language rights and iconoclasm.
With Care
Indonesian writer and artist Khairani Barokka writes on ableism in literature and translation.
Editorial: PEN Transmissions x Granta
Out of the Ashes
The last in our series with Granta magazine on writers and their translators, Geovani Martins writes new short fiction, and Julia Sanches writes on translating it.
Connecting Worlds, Inventing Worlds
The second in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, José Eduardo Agualusa and Daniel Hahn share an embrace.
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
The first in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, Peter Stamm pens new short fiction and Michael Hofmann writes on translating Stamm.
What We Have to Build Next
Tanaka Mhishi discusses appearing on a BBC documentary as a male survivor of rape, and what writers can do to tackle sexual harm.
All These Write, Not I Alone: A Conversation with Vikram Kolmannskog
A year after the decriminalisation of gay sex in India, we speak to Norwegian-Indian writer Vikram Kolmannskog about writing self, place and queerness.
Against the Current: An Interview with Gwen Davies
Welsh-English translator and editor of New Welsh Review, Gwen Davies, speaks to us about indigeneity, place, migration and translating contemporary Wales.
Turkey’s Endless War on Books
Can Bahadır Yüce writes on self-censorship and the destruction on books in Turkey.