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Introducing Iolanda Batallé
Today we would like to introduce you to lolanda Batallé, the Catalan writer of our new upcoming publication I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT, translated from Catalan by the amazing mother and daughter team Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño.There are so many things I love about Iolanda. Her energy and vitality, her smile and the way she laughs. I deeply admire the way she sees the world, and how she always dares to do things in her own way, even if it sometimes goes against the tide. But it is how she writes that made me fall in love with her:...
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I´ll Do Anything You Want Sneak Peek
WHO COULD BEHOLD AND LOVE ALL PEOPLE, ALL FACES, AT THE SAME TIME? A LOVE WHORE.0 comments
After 25 years of a picture-perfect marriage and life, an unplanned affair pushes Nora into a murky world of abuse and luxury prostitution. From there, she will have to face her deepest fears, in a journey that turns her world upside down. -
Andrea Mayo versus Flavia Company
There's an enviable complicity between the two of them. So much so that you can't tell who's who.
For a long time, Flavia Company lived more or less identified with the real person who signed her books. It is clear that an author is not a flesh and blood person but the entity or body created to take public responsibility for the work they produce. -
March of the Mummies
By Bibiana Mas
Last Saturday there were marches in 11 cities across the UK calling on the government - and directly challenging the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - on childcare reform: The March Of The Mummies.
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this dark ceiling without a star
By Bibiana Mas
My beloved poet Sylvia Plath was born 90 years ago today. I find it almost imperative to remember her with one of her poems, called Child:
‘Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
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International Translation Week. Laura McGloughlin.
Laura McGloughlin has been a freelance translator from Catalan and Spanish since completing a Masters in literary translation at the University of East Anglia. She was awarded the inaugural British Centre for Literary Translation Catalan-English Translation Mentorship in 2011.0 comments