Translation – Sabotage

Vivarium yellow book cover with black and white illustration of plants

Pamphlets Poetry Translation

Vivarium by Maarja Partna, translated by Jayde Will

March 1, 2021March 17, 2021 Karen Goodwin Maarja Partna, Simon Zonenblick, The Emma Press

–Reviewed by Simon Zonenblick- Weaving in and out of remembered places, the poems seem to inhabit dream-like landscapes and dreams,

Poetry Translation

Embrace by Najwan Darwish

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Karen Goodwin Atef Alshaer, Najwan Darwish, Paul Batchelor, Poetry Translation Centre

-Reviewed by Helen Calcutt- ‘Confused, wet through, My hands, torn reaching to embrace mountains’ This is the opening of the title

Anthology Short Stories Translation

Palestine + 100 edited by Bhasma Ghalayini

March 20, 2020April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Abdalmuti, Bhasma Ghalayini, Comma Press, Dipika Mummery, Emad El-Din Aysha, Mazen Maarouf, Saleem Haddad, science fiction, Selma Dabbagh, translation

-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- Those of us who love science fiction are probably well used to stories imagining what many

Novella Translation

The President’s Room by Ricardo Romero

December 9, 2019April 16, 2020 Phil Olsen Absurdist, Argentina, Argentinian, Calvino, Charco Press, Charlotte Coombe, Cortázar, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Joshua Lambert, Julio Cortázar, Kafka, President, Ricardo Romero

-Reviewed by Joshua Lambert- The President’s Room (Charco Press) is the tenth book by Argentinian writer Ricardo Romero, but there’s a

Chapbook Poetry Translation

the hammer and other poems by Adelaide Ivanova, translated by Rachel Long and Francisco Vilhena

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Karen Goodwin Adelaide Ivanova, Afric McGlinchey, Francisco Vilhena, Poetry Translation Centre, Rachel Long

-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey- In Vilhena’s introduction to this chapbook, Adelaide Ivánova’s poetry is put in context for English-speaking readers.

Anthology Short Stories Translation

Refugee Tales III as told to Monica Ali, Patrick Gale, Bernardine Evaristo and more

August 20, 2019April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Abdulrazak Gurnah, asylum seekers, Bernardine Evaristo, Comma Press, David Constantine, David Herd, Dipika Mummery, Emma Parsons, Gillian Slovo, Ian Sansom, Jonathan Skinner, Jonathan Wittenberg, Lisa Appignanesi, Lytton Smith, Monica Ali, Patrick Gale, Refugee Tales, Refugees, Roma Tearne

-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- It may no longer dominate the headlines, but the refugee crisis is still very much real

Memoir Novella Translation

You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke

July 24, 2019April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Birgit Vanderbeke, Dipika Mummery, German, Jamie Bulloch, Refugee

– Reviewed by Dipika Mummery – Birgit Vanderbeke’s You Would Have Missed Me (Peirene Press), translated from the original German by

Collection Short Stories Translation

Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun

July 1, 2019 Phil Olsen banthology, Comma Press, Elisabeth Jacquette, Jenny Booth, Rania Mamoun, Sudan, Sudanese

– Reviewed by Jenny Booth – Rania Mamoun is a journalist and writer, author of two novels, Green Flash and

Anthology Short Stories Translation

The Book of Tehran edited by Fereshteh Ahmadi

June 17, 2019 Phil Olsen Caroline Croskery, Comma Press, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Fereshteh Ahmandi, Hamed Habibi, Payam Nasser, Sara Khalili, Shahab Vaezzadeh

– Reviewed by Rhys Knapman – The Book of Tehran is a Comma Press anthology of short stories written by

Pamphlets Short Stories Translation

The Secret Box by Daina Tabūna

April 23, 2019 Phil Olsen Daina Tabuna, Latvia, Scott Manley Hadley, short stories, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Scott Manley Hadley – The Secret Box by Daina Tabūna is a pamphlet of short stories published