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  • Andrea Mayo versus Flavia Company

    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.

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  • March of the Mummies

    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

    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.
    I want to fill it with color and ducks,...

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  • International Translation Week. Laura McGloughlin.

    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.
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  • Fiction in translation

    Fiction in translation

    By Bibiana Mas.
    On International Translation Day I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the challenges of publishing books in translation, a piece I wrote for Hopscotch magazine.

    I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful work that translators do. Without them, our imaginary world would be too small and too grey a place.

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  • International Translation Week. Martha Tennent & Maruxa Relaño.

    International Translation Week. Martha Tennent & Maruxa Relaño.

    With International Translation Day coming up tomorrow, we also want to celebrate the contributions translators make to breaking down language barriers by introducing you to Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño, who have beautifully translated Deadlands by Núria Bendicho for 3TimesRebel.
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