Translating Place and Places of Translation

Ayça Türkoğlu, Filiz Emre, Gitanjali Patel, Harriet Phillips, Jessie Spivey, Katharine Halls, Kavita Bhanot, Khairani Barokka, Naima Rashid, Nariman Youssef, Mohini Gupta and Reem Abou-El-Fadl

—Interviews

32 min read

In Their Minds: An Interview with Samira Sedira

Samira Sedira discusses race, class, resentment and crime.

—Interviews

9 min read

The Words We Choose II: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators

The shortlisted translators of the 2021 International Booker Prize in conversation with Maureen Freely.

—Interviews | International Booker Prize

29 min read

Decolonial Feminisms: An Interview with Françoise Vergès

Françoise Vergès discusses decolonial feminism, free expression, Reunion and white feminism.

—Interviews

20 min read

Lest Writers Become Accountants: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.

—Interviews

9 min read

A Conversation with Andrew Black: A Conversation with Steven Hall

Steven Hall on thirteen years between novels, parent-children relationships, and full stops.

—Interviews

8 min read

A Broken Story: A Conversation with Mia Couto

Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid‑19 and silence.

—Interviews

13 min read

Breaking Lines: An Interview with Tine Høeg

Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.

—Interviews

6 min read

On the Pacific Coast: The English PEN Membership Interview Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman

Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.

—Interviews

13 min read

Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul

Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.

—Interviews

6 min read

Already Bedfellows: A Long Interview with So Mayer

So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.

—Interviews

18 min read

On the Other Side of the Door that Leads to Hell: An Interview with Selva Almada

Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.

—Interviews

12 min read

The Words We Choose: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators

The shortlisted translators of the 2020 International Booker Prize in conversation with Georgina Godwin.

—Interviews | International Booker Prize

22 min read

When I Stop Writing, I Stop Living: An Interview with Maryse Condé

Guadeloupe's Maryse Condé, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, talks about liberation, satire, and her hopes for the world.

—Interviews

6 min read

The Global Desi Story: A Conversation with Kritika Pandey

Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, talks about transgressing cultural norms, protesting, and Hinglish.

—Interviews

18 min read

Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix

Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.

—Interviews

10 min read

Liberating Languages: A Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Damian Le Bas and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Three writers discuss language and power.

—Interviews

19 min read

Poetry’s Democracy: An Interview with Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou - poet, writer, publisher and educator - discusses spoken word after COVID-19, Cyprus, and poetry in the age of social media.

—Interviews

12 min read