It reads powerfully in the Shona language, and is one of two of her books newly translated into it.
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Which version of “The Metamorphosis” or “Crime and Punishment” should you choose? In a particularly well-stocked library or bookshop, you could find many different English translations.
Research on under-catalogued documents in Oxford sheds new light on one of history’s most influential books.
British readers are missing out on a wealth of literature written by non-English women writers.
Much of the recent commentary on Sino-African relations has a negative tone. But genuine cultural exchange holds the promise of mutual enrichment.
One publisher spent over 40 years trying to profit off Hitler’s hateful tome.
Is translating into native languages helping the disenfranchised?
Not every crime novel needs a Jason Bourne. Mishani eschews the obvious world of Mossad agents and terrorist plots you might expect in an Israeli crime novel – and the results are thrilling.
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Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Monash University
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Lecturer / Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
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Senior Research Associate in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature, King's College London
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Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Warwick
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Fellow in English Literature, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Modern & Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University
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Associate professor of English and Translation Studies, Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)
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Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
