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INTERPRET magazine




James Appleby
Nov 7, 20246 min read
Crime Appears As If By Accident: An Interview With Claudia Piñeiro
An interview with Claudia Piñeiro, one of Latin America's most decorated modern writers.


James Appleby
Nov 7, 20246 min read
Invention Means Sobbing Underwater: Hirondina Joshua Interviews Mia Couto
A conversation between Mozambican Mia Couto, the most decorated living poet in Portuguese, and Hirondina Joshua, a leading Mozambican poet.


James Appleby
Nov 7, 20246 min read
Good Faith in the Reading: An Interview with Sasha Dugdale
An interview with Sasha Dugdale, the author of The Strongbox and a further five award-winning collections of poetry, from Issue 12.


James Appleby
Aug 8, 20246 min read
Translation Is The Language We Read Most: An Interview With Samanta Schweblin
An interview with Samanta Schweblin, the most acclaimed of a new generation of Latin American authors, now in English.


James Appleby
Aug 8, 20247 min read
Weird Dissonant Intervals: An Interview With Angela Rodel
An Interview with Angela Rodel, winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize for her translation of Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter.


James Appleby
Aug 8, 20247 min read
The Right To Our Mother Tongue: An Interview With Burhan Sönmez
An interview with PEN International President, Burhan Sönmez.

James Appleby
Nov 13, 20236 min read
La traducción es el idioma en el que más leemos: entrevista con Samanta Schweblin
The English translation of this interview can be read in Interpret 10. Samanta Schweblin es la autora más condecorada de la nueva...


James Appleby
Nov 10, 20236 min read
The leap that has been taken: an interview with Lee Yew Leong
Lee Yew Leong is the founder and editor-in-chief of Asymptote, among the world’s leading journals of translated literature. Asymptote has...


James Appleby
Oct 18, 20233 min read
Review: Ribwort by Hanna Komar
Ribwort showcases the strength of poetry from a life under violent authoritarianism. Imprisoned for her part in the protests that...


James Appleby
Jul 10, 20236 min read
Expressions of hope: an interview with Thomas Halliday
Dr Thomas Halliday is the author of Otherlands, an exploration of deep time and life on Earth. Each chapter reaches further into the...


James Appleby
Jun 27, 20237 min read
Language can be home: an interview with Hanna Komar
Hanna Komar is Belarus’ leading young poet. Imprisoned in the protests that followed the rigged Belarusian elections of 2020, she now...

James Appleby
Mar 1, 20236 min read
What translations can do: an interview with Jennifer Croft
Jennifer Croft is among the world’s most influential translators. She won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize with Olga Tokarczuk;...


James Appleby
Sep 20, 20227 min read
Now my life is in two parts: interviews with Ukrainian artists at war
James Appleby at the Edinburgh International Culture Summit The interpreters grip their notebooks, terrified someone might speak out of...


James Appleby
Jun 17, 20226 min read
Pieced back together: an interview with David Constantine
Following Auden, Larkin, and Hughes, David Constantine received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2020. He was editor of Modern Poetry...


James Appleby
May 9, 20226 min read
Translation is radical politics: an interview with Max Porter
Max Porter is a bookseller turned acclaimed author. His 2015 debut, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, was an intense hybrid of poetry,...


James Appleby
Apr 13, 20226 min read
Everyone, even the mountain itself: an interview with Irene SolÃ
Interview with Irene Solà , author of 'When I Sing, Mountains Dance'.

James Appleby
Mar 28, 20226 min read
There are lots of ways of being a person: an interview with Bel Olid
Bel Olid is one of the finest storytellers and translators from the flourishing Catalan scene. Una terra solità ria, their debut novel,...


James Appleby
Mar 14, 20223 min read
Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance - Irene Solà , translated by Mara Faye Lethem
When I Sing, Mountains Dance is the sort of work a translator dreams of, then sweats over in the night.
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