ELNet May 2021 Newsletter by Rosie Goldsmith: On With the Show!
Thanks to you and to our riveting #ELNetNeedsYou crowdfunding campaign, the ELNet Show CAN go on – we raised nearly £9,000! Massive thanks everyone. If you claimed ‘rewards’ never fear they will reach...
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LA ESPAÑOLA: Riveting Writing from Spain with Alice Banks. May: Contemporary...
The end of April was a very exciting time for Spanish-language literature, with Granta naming their ‘best of young Spanish-language novelists’, each published in English translation in their latest...
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For centuries women’s faces have observed us from the paintings where they’ve been captured for eternity. Women often not known to us by their names but by those of the men who painted or sculpted...
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LA ESPAÑOLA: Riveting Writing from Spain by Alice Banks. June: The Short Story
The short story has long been a staple in Spanish literature, with renowned Spanish language writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges embracing the short story format. Whilst these...
View ArticlePoetry Travels with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: THE SIEGE by Marcin...
We will not leave this cafe! As a sign of fidelity we put our lips against the multiple imprints of lipstick on the cups. If our fatherland has not come here with us – we have to call this place a...
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I think it was Picasso who said that an artist mustn’t chase after beauty, but run ahead of it (I was sure it was Picasso who said it, but I haven’t been able to find this quotation again anywhere).*...
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LA ESPAÑOLA: Riveting Writing from Spain by Alice Banks. July: Crime and...
When we think of Spanish language literature, perhaps what first comes to mind is the magnificent magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, or the powerful historical fiction of Javier Cercas. Whilst...
View ArticlePoetry Travels with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: *** (I WANT TO FOLD THIS...
I want to fold this day into paper ships and load all my heavy thoughts into them, so it would sink. I want to drive away this whitenessm that pretends to be snow. I want to fold this day into paper...
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FOUR TRANSLATORS DISCUSS THE CHALLENGES AND JOYS OF TRANSLATING ITALIAN LITERATURE – With Howard Curtis, Richard Dixon, Katherine Gregor, Lori Hetherington This month, rather than writing an article...
View ArticleLA ESPAÑOLA: Riveting Writing from Spain by Alice Banks. Las Sinsombrero
Spain’s Generación 27 was a group of experimental artists and writers who pushed boundaries and changed the way Spain saw art and literature. Generación 27 has certainly left its mark on Spanish...
View ArticleInterview with Translator Robert Chandler by Katherine Gregor
Katherine Gregor: First of all, I have to ask: what first drew you to translation? And why Russian? Robert Chandler: My involvement with translation came about gradually. The first story I translated...
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Mention the late Sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri and people in the UK immediately think of Inspector Montalbano. Some have read the novels, translated by Stephen Sartarelli; most have watched the TV...
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LA ESPAÑOLA: Riveting Writing from Spain. September: Children’s Literature....
World Kid Lit Month celebrations are now well underway, with the month of September seeing the celebration of children’s and YA literature from across the world. Launched in 2016 by international...
View ArticlePoetry Travels with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: THIS IS LOVE by Joanna...
This is Klara. In seventh grade she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Today she looks like an old woman. She smiles at me. Says I look like one girl from her primary school that boys locked themselves...
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I have in my hands two tufts of braided spikes: lavender, that still has the faint fragrance of a distant day at Sacra di San Michele, and stiff hedgenettle, the witches’ herb; it comes from Triori,...
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La Española: Riveting Writing from Spain with Alice Banks. October: Basque Focus
Basque is a language with a long and rich literary history; however, with its roots firmly planted in an oral tradition, the first published book dates back to only 1545. Since then, as a result of a...
View ArticlePoetry Travels with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: INTERIOR by Ana Blandiana,...
Flaking silver On the aged back of mirrors, Nymphs and satyrs beneath the falling plaster Held aloft by overweight angels With wings too small to Lift them off the wall. Look closely here and try to...
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This month, it is my pleasure to invite into the Italianist’s chair my talented fellow translator Lori Hetherington, who presents a powerful book that I, for one, definitely want to read. Lori has...
View ArticleLa Española: Riveting Writing from Spain with Alice Banks. November Author...
Elizabeth Duval is a Spanish writer and philosopher. I came across her work fairly recently and was immediately interested by her writing, as like myself, she has close connections with both Spanish...
View ArticlePoetry Travels with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: REPORT FROM ANOTHER CITY by...
I wish the view changed and the grass was greener for if there is a fence there is always some side and the grass is different and the words are different on the other side of the rainbow – burned...
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