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  • 17/07/2026

Albert Camus’s Notebooks in English: A Translation History

Four English editions of Albert Camus's notebooks displayed side by side: Notebooks 1935–1942 (Philip Thody, 1963), Notebooks 1942–1951 (Justin O'Brien, 1965), Notebooks 1951–1959 (Ryan Bloom, 2008), and The Complete Notebooks (Ryan Bloom, 2025).

Albert Camus’s notebooks did not arrive as a single, unified work for English readers. They appeared slowly and unevenly, in…

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  • 07/12/2025

PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants 2026 Winners

Black and white line illustration of an open book with a world map emerging from its pages, created for In Other Worlds as the feature image for the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants 2026 article.

PEN America has announced the winners of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants 2026, selecting ten translators whose projects will bring…

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  • 14/11/2025

The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit: A Lost Masterpiece

Illustration of The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit, showing a stylised book with the author’s name and translator Sophie Duvernoy on the cover, surrounded by simple line-drawn books.

More than seventy years after its original publication in Germany, The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit reaches English readers for the…

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  • 05/11/2025

On Choosing Between Translations: A Reader’s Guide

Minimal black-and-white line illustration showing several open books reflected in a standing mirror, symbolising different translations of a literary work. Created in In Other Worlds’ signature minimalist Japanese-ink style for the article “How to Choose Between Translations of a Classic”.

You’re standing in a bookshop, holding two copies of the same novel. Each bears a different translator’s name on the…

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  • 26/10/2025

Booker Prize and Translated Children’s Books: What Next?

Minimal black-and-white line illustration of four imaginary children reading books, drawn in the In Other Worlds style — elegant, Japanese-ink inspired artwork representing translated children’s books.

The Children’s Booker Prize has just been announced by the Booker Prize Foundation. Aimed specifically at fiction for children aged…

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  • 23/10/2025

Jon Fosse’s Vaim – First Novel Since Nobel Win

Minimal black-and-white illustration of a row of books with one central white cover reading Vaim by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.

Two years after receiving the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, Norwegian writer Jon Fosse returns with Vaim, his first novel…

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