David Bellos, the First Man Booker-winning Translator, Dies Aged 80
David Bellos, the British-born translator, scholar and biographer who became the first translator to share the Man Booker International Prize…
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Ivan Klíma in Translation – The Afterlife of a Czech Voice
Ivan Klíma died in Prague on 4 October 2025, aged ninety-four. The obituaries and reports that followed in The Guardian,…
László Krasznahorkai and the Translators Behind His Nobel Moment
When the Swedish Academy announced that László Krasznahorkai had been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, it felt like…
Osamu Dazai in Translation: Melancholy for a New Generation
Nearly eight decades after his death, Osamu Dazai has become an unlikely figure of fascination for a new generation of…
Milena Jesenská: Kafka’s First Translator, Beyond the Lover
When Franz Kafka’s The Stoker appeared in Czech in 1920, the translation marked a quiet milestone: it was the first…
Yuki Tejima and the Art of Translating Mizuki Tsujimura
Mizuki Tsujimura is one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary authors, with over forty books and several film adaptations. Translator Yuki…