https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators/8l8z94kzzx8o9shtzdghgwnfo7e915 monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/0fd27f92-eb3c-4565-8adc-c0f928bca3ac/unnamed.jpg Talking with Translators - Talking with Ros Schwartz - Georgia Katakou and Kate McNamara talk with Ros Schwartz, an award-winning translator from French who has translated over 100 works, and has been awarded a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Our conversation explores her recent translation Venice Requiem by Khalid Lyamlahy, and moves into discussions of pitching to publishers, translating across mediums, and the re-translations of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, and Jacquline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men. We also ask her about the notion of hospitality as a translator, in relation to her translation of one of our favourite books on translation: Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel. [Photo credit: Camila Franca] https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators/talking-with-jen-calleja monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/1769524299305-T2FZGLSWLKHHTCQOQG7K/photo_2026-01-27_14-31-02.jpg Talking with Translators - Talking with Jen Calleja - Georgia Katakou and Claudia Marzollo talk to writer and translator Jen Calleja about her translation memoir Fair: The Life-Art of Translation. They discuss experimenting with form, the political aspects of translation as well as the importance of recognising and naming people and texts who helped her become the translator and writer she is today. [Photo Credit: Jorge Antony Stride] https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators/talking-with-nguyn-bnh monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/1763981720952-GENA97YBILKF88THACDV/IMG_5006.jpg Talking with Translators - Talking with Nguyễn Bình - Georgia Katakou and Kate McNamara talk with Nguyễn Bình, a poet, writer and translator native to Vietnam. We discuss their recent translation of the Vietnamese classic, The Tale of Kiều. The resulting lively conversation moves between the colonial history of translation, a critique of the existing versions of The Tale of Kiều and the politics of re-translation, and how to translate epic poetry. https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators/talking-with-kate-briggs monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/ad8b9580-6f21-49c0-a4ff-26bee5e517f1/KB+photo.jpg Talking with Translators - Talking with Kate Briggs - Our conversation with Kate Briggs begins with a discussion of her work on her most recent translation - the novel Lili Is Crying by Hélène Bessette - and explores the notion of the 'poetic novel'. Drawing from Kate Briggs' vital essay on translation 'This Little Art', the conversation moves through ideas of embodied translation, generosity in writing and in translation, doing translations differently, and much more. https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators/talking-with-caroline-waight monthly 0.5 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/1758030028646-NHEEPV1S9G7ZGX3XPDPT/Waight_photo_hires.JPEG Talking with Translators - Talking with Caroline Waight - Georgia Katakou and Claudia Marzollo talk with the translator, Caroline Waight, who translates from Danish, German and Norwegian. In this interview, as well as talking more broadly about the state of literary translation, we focus on her translation of Woman, Idle by the Swiss writer, Laura Vogt. Our conversation explores the intimate, complex female friendships of the novel, and the societal roles that women play, as well as delving into the specifics of translating from German into English. https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators/talking-with-ian-giles monthly 0.5 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/1754126687934-YKH0EVGBK11S7KTBVDLT/Ian%2BGiles%2BPortrait%2B%25C2%25A9Camila%2BFranc%25CC%25A7a%2BPhotography.jpg Talking with Translators - Talking with Ian Giles - Kate McNamara and Sofia Blomqvist Rytters interview translator Ian Giles who works from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian into English. We talk about breaking into literary translation, the value of commercial and genre fiction, and Ian Giles' experience of translating Andrev Walden’s Bloody Awful in Different Ways. https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with-translators/ayca-turkoglu monthly 0.5 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/01e2936b-8aca-4933-a472-a86c17a36148/58fa6c0d-35dc-4a12-bfc6-467bf6a0c364.jpg Talking with Translators - Talking with Ayça Türkoğlu about ‘All Dogs Die’ - We talk to Ayça Türkoğlu about translating Cemile Sahin’s All Dogs Die. 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https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/the-translation-table/mireille-gansel-translation-as-transhumance-trans-ros-schwartz-and-yoko-tawada-scattered-all-over-the-earth-trans-margaret-mitsutani monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/the-translation-table/kate-briggs-this-little-art monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/p/the-villains-dance-a-conversation-with-fiston-mwanza-mujila-and-roland-glasser monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balkan-rhapsody-a-roundtable-on-balkan-languages-in-translation-with-iliyana-nedkova-byrne monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/be7cd681-47b2-4734-b562-cabf2af2a6f1/Balkan+Rhapsody.png Events - Balkan Rhapsody: A roundtable on Balkan languages in translation with Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne Join Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne and In Other Words for a conversation around Balkan women’s writing, exile, and translation, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody. Balkan Rhapsody (Балканска рапсодия) is the debut novel by the Bulgarian-born author Maria Kassimova-Moisset, published by the independent Scottish press Tippermuir Books in Perth. It follows Miriam and her young family during the 1920s and 1930s, as they leave her native Burgas and journey to Istanbul. A historical novel that draws on autofictional narratives from the author’s own family, this is a moving story of everyday life affected by voluntary and forced migrations. Balkan Rhapsody is a feminist work of historical writing that does not shy away from complicated questions around belonging, nationalism, and the violence women suffer under patriarchical state structures. As Nedkova-Byrne has so compellingly shown: “Kassimova-Moisset’s fiction allows us to feel what might have been like growing up and surviving in this multicultural, post-colonial and porous region known as the Balkans. This is a region steeped in history – a condition evidenced through its contemporary literature which often dwells in the past while uncovering its ‘Balkanness’.” Our conversation will center around women’s writing in the Balkans and beyond, the politics of translation in a post-colonial and multicultural region, and the work of translators as curators and advocates. We are so excited to welcome Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne in Tills Bookshop, and look forward to exploring this moving historical novel, and its ties to the Scottish literary scene. Doors will open at 6.45 pm and the event will start at 7.00 pm. Join us! https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/an-evening-with-kate-briggs monthly 0.5 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/9a97a225-c4f2-491d-8940-c11d950781db/Lili+is+CryingIOW+Poster+%284%29.png Events - An Evening With Kate Briggs - Join us at Tills Bookshop for an evening with Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator, Kate Briggs. If you have attended our reading groups and seminars in the past, you will likely know how much we love the work of Kate Briggs. Her long essay, This Little Art (Fitzcarraldo, 2017), is a lively, generous, and fiercely rigorous exploration of literary translation. For the team at In Other Words, it is a key text that we hold dear and keep returning to. So we are thrilled to welcome Kate Briggs to Edinburgh to discuss her most recent translation, the French classic, Lili Is Crying (Fitzcarraldo, 2025), by Hélène Bessette. https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/translation-table-diamela-eltit-never-did-the-fire-trans-by-daniel-hahn-and-daniel-hahn-catching-fire monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/translation-table-sharon-dodua-otoo-adas-realm-trans-by-jon-cho-polizzi-and-ngugi-wa-thiongo-the-language-of-languages monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/translation-table-shushan-avagyan-a-book-untitled-trans-deanna-cachoian-schanz-and-violent-phenomena-ed-kavita-bhanot-and-jeremy-tiang monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/translation-table-mireille-gansel-translation-as-transhumance-trans-ros-schwartz-and-yoko-tawada-scattered-all-over-the-earth-trans-margaret-mitsutani monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/translation-table-kate-briggs-this-little-art monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/the-translation-table-at-the-feminist-library-florence-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/chronicles-of-a-heartache-four-seminars-on-elena-ferrantes-standalone-novels monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/our-brilliant-friends-three-seminars-on-the-neapolitan-novels monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/crossing-terrains-a-discussion-on-translation-the-natural-world-and-colonialism-with-nedra-rodrigo monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/3c55b673-ac42-40ba-a918-33620148f893/photo_2025-06-16_19-18-07.jpg Events - Crossing Terrains: A discussion on translation, the natural world, and colonialism with Nedra Rodrigo. - Join In Other Words for an intimate roundtable with translator Nedra Rodrigo about translation as a decolonial practice focusing on the land. Hosted at Tills Bookshop, Edinburgh EH8 9NA. Tuesday 24th June 7pm - doors at 6.45pm. https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/woman-idle-book-launch monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/capitalists-must-starve monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/667aeeb93d5b422199128622/5eb1187d-a0c7-4cf7-834b-ea6e6eff7cae/Capitalists+Must+Starve.png Events - Capitalists Must Starve - a conversation with Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur - On October 26th, author Park Seolyeon and translator Anton Hur will join In Other Words at Tills Bookshop in a conversation about writing and translating political fiction, explored through their latest novel: Capitalists Must Starve. Capitalists Must Starve (Tilted Axis, 2025) is a moving feminist historical novel inspired by the life story of labour activist Kang Juryoung. Set in 1930s Pyongyang during the Japanese occupation, the novel follows a widowed woman seeking to determine her own life freely. 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