World Literature Weekend
For a weekend in June, the London Review Bookshop, and parts of the British Museum, were filled with visitors from many different countries speaking many different languages, all here to take part in our inaugural World Literature Weekend. Here's a selection of some of the books discussed, read from, written or translated by the participants in the festival - starting with the work of the four translators who took part in the panel 'Translation: Making a Whole Culture Intelligible' - plus some other literature in translation we think we should mention.
If you missed the events, or want to revisit them, you can now also watch video extracts and listen to audio recordings of the weekend here.
translated by Anthea Bell
Including How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone — Saša Stanišić
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translated by Daniel Hahn
Including Rainy Season — Jose Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn
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translated by Anne McLean
Including Soldiers of Salamis — Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean
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translated by Frank Wynne
Including Allah is Not Obliged — Ahmadou Kourouma, translated by Frank Wynne
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Beijing Coma
Dai Wei, a former student, is lying apparently comatose in a shabby Beijing apartment, having been shot in the head during the suppression of the T... See details
£7.99
Dreams from the Endz
Faïza Guène’s first novel Just Like Tomorrow (Kiffe kiffe demain), published in 2004 when the author was just nineteen, became an ins... See details
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Just Like Tomorrow
Faïza Guène’s first novel Just Like Tomorrow (Kiffe kiffe demain) was published in 2004 when the author was just nineteen. It is a sh... See details
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Midnight
Mourid Barghouti first won a readership in English with his prose memoir I Saw Ramallah (translated by Ahdaf Souief, Bloomsbury £8.99), but ... See details
£10.99
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
Uniquely among European literatures, the short story has had in Russia an equal status with the novel, if not a higher one. There is no major prose... See details
£6.99
Stick Out Your Tongue
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A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnes...
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The Noodle Maker
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Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely frie...
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I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
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At the intersection of tradition and modernity, East and West, childhood and adulthood, the characters in this book...
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