What a treat to be in conversation with MILTON HATOUM 🇧🇷 & LILIANA COLANZI 🇧🇴 at @hayfestival.bsky.social @hayfestivalesp.bsky.social #Hay2026 #Translation

“I enjoy sitting at my desk like a child playing with his toys. It’s work, essentially, but it’s fun and games also.” Can’t believe it’s been over 20 yrs since my @parisreview.bsky.social interview with Pamuk was published. He got the @nobelprize.org the following year. Still a highlight for me.

“Literature is pleasure and knowledge, like sex.” This excellent @parisreview.bsky.social interview by Andrés Barba reminded me of the time I interviewed Cercas at the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (FLIP). That’s me in the photo (R) with Cercas (L) & Colombia’s Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

Dorothy Tse’s CITY LIKE WATER, beautifully translated by Natascha Bruce, shows how easily the language of dreams can become the language of nightmares. My review in today’s @ftweekend.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social #HongKong www.ft.com/content/49cd...

"...a nation that has long been considered Latin America’s cinema laggard"? @economist.com is a fine publication, but sometimes, out of ignorance or laziness or both, it spews absolute nonsense. #Brazil #Brasil #CinemaBrasileiro

Saturday’s post brought this beautiful copy of BLUE, by Shutter Hub Editions, which includes my #cyanotype made from a photo taken at the Museum of Classical Archaeology @cam.ac.uk #blue #altphoto

‘As rich and heady as some of the dishes that Chi-chan prepares for Aoyama, Taiwan Travelogue is a multi-layered meditation on language and longing, and on the many ways in which we travel only to arrive where we started.’ @angelgurriaq.bsky.social reviews Taiwan Travelogue for @financialtimes.com✨

“A multi-layered meditation on language & longing & the many ways in which we travel only to arrive where we started.” My review of #InternationalBooker2026 long-listed TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE byYáng Shuāng-zǐ’s @ftweekend.com @andotherstories.bsky.social @thebookerprizes.com www.ft.com/content/0164...

Good piece @richlusc.bsky.social … but do you mean…”imperial”? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So glad to see my #translation of Sandro William Junqueira’s THE ARCHITECTURE OF FEAR now out in #paperback @mountainleopard.bsky.social #Portugal

And here’s what it looks like in print… Delighted, as ever, to share the page with the @ftweekend.com’s very own Undercover Economist @timharford.ft.com

Christmas book season is upon us (it comes earlier every year!). So here's my end-of-year list of fiction in #translation for this weekend's @ftweekend.com. Some excellent reads from #Argentina, #Brazil, #Cuba, #Denmark, #Georgia, #Germany, #Japan, #Norway, #Poland & #Spain.

Hard to believe it's been so long since I reviewed David Szalay's debut novel, London and the Southeast, for @ftweekend.com. This week he won the #Booker Prize for Fiction for his latest novel, Flesh. @thebookerprizes.com #Flesh #Szalay

“Time is compressed and stretched in this novel, which seems more determined to explore the disjointedness of expatriation than to pursue the conventions of linear storytelling.” My review of False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez @ftweekend.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7356...

Here’s what the Fiction in #Translation Summer Roundup looked like in print… @ftweekend.com

"Sit with discomfort... listen deeply... and stay soft in hard times." A hugely moving valediction from Yurong Jiang, of @harvard.edu's class of 2025.

A masterclass in the art of #translation. In 2013 I joined MJC on the jury of the Harvill Secker Young Translator's Award. Later that year we went toe-to-toe in a Translation Duel at Cheltenham Lit Fest, chaired by Danny Hahn. Heady & humbling times, learning from the best. @parisreview.bsky.social

Temperature is rising 🥵... Time to share my Summer recommendations of some of the best fiction in #translation published so far this year. @ftweekend.com 🌎 📖 www.ft.com/content/5720...

Two huge losses to the world of letters: Kenya's Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o passed away on 28 May. American novelist & memoirist Edmund White died on 3 June. I met and interviewed them both at the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, in Brazil. Ed was also a generous mentor and teacher.

Great to see @economist.com including Han Kang in its list of best books of 2025 so far but… would it have been so difficult to name her translators Emily Yae Won and Paige Aniyah Morris, too? #namethetranslator