Books
Book of the month: Hemley Boum
This book was given to me by the Cameroonian writer Ernis, who I was lucky to meet in Assam last…
Book of the month: Susana Sanches Arins
I heard about this title from María Reimóndez, a brilliant Galician writer, translator, interpreter, academic and feminist campaigner who I…
Dibrugarh University International Literature Festival 2025
Last week, I got to chair my dream literary festival event panel. It featured Togolese explorer Tété-Michel Kpomassie (my Togolese…
Book of the month: Baqytgul Sarmekova
I love small presses. They are the heroes of the international-literature world, taking risks and bringing into Englishes stories that…
Book of the month: Kim Leine
This novel was a recommendation from leading English-Danish translator Signe Lyng. After we met at the Dublin Book Festival in…
Book of the month: Angèle Rawiri
This was a recommendation from Suroor Alikhan, who kindly invited me to be part of the Hyderabad Literature Festival Online…
Dublin Book Festival
Last weekend, I had the privilege of being part of the line-up at Dublin Book Festival, an annual celebration of…
Book of the month: Hugo Claus
A few weeks ago, I found myself having lunch next to the Belgian author David Van Reybrouck. We were in…
Book of the month: André Maurois
Some years ago, my father-in-law gave me a secondhand boxset of facsimile editions of the first ten Penguins, released in…
#WITMonth Book of the month: Angélica Gorodischer
This #WITMonth, it was the translator who attracted me to my featured title. I often find this is the case:…