A year of reading the world

This book came onto my radar when we invited London-based Belarusian poet and translator Hanna Komar to be a guest on Collected, the podcast I produce for the Royal Literary Fund.

This Women in Translation month, I’m featuring a collection of short stories by the Lebanese writer and critic Lana Abdelrahman.

As the heatwaves rippled across Europe, one summer novel held me gripped.

It’s been my pleasure to be involved with a number of podcasts focusing on reading and/or translation in recent months in various capacities – as a guest, interviewer and producer.

For anyone who’s interested, there’s a rare opportunity to join one of my Incomprehension Workshops online next week.

If you’ve never heard of Jeyamohan, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Last month I had the honour of introducing the Indie Press Network’s spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from small presses in the UK and Ireland in the next few months.

Eight months after the launch of the paperback of Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-knowing, the ebook edition has hit the virtual shelves.

‘I wonder if you’ve considered any books from Tibet so far,’ Chris Peacock wrote in a comment on this blog a few weeks back.

This book came onto my radar during the brilliant event about writing female experience I attended at Hong Kong International Literary Festival earlier this month.

Just a week after I returned from the Dibrugarh University International Literature Festival in Assam, India, I jetted off again, this time to take part in the 25th annual Hong Kong International Literary Festival.