World Translations Review

Thursday, January 9, 2020

I Stared at the Night of the City
by Bakhtiyar Ali
Translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman

A Fortunate Man
by Henrik Pontoppidan
Translated from the Danish by Paul Larkin

A Life At Noon
by Talasbek Asemkulov
Translated from the Kazakh by Zira Naurzbayeva
Translated from the Russian by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
by Sjón
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

A Head Full of Joy
by Ognjen Spahić
Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth

Three Brothers: Memories of My Family
by Yan Lianke
Translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas

Flight from the USSR
by Dato Turashvili
Translated from the Georgian by Maya Kiasashvili

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