What are your favourite books of translated fiction and poetry that you have read this year? - ThreadSky

yilinwriter.bsky.social • 60 days ago

What are your favourite books of translated fiction and poetry that you have read this year?

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doctorscience.bsky.social•60 days ago

Blood of the Old Kings, by Sung-Il Kim. My GR review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7044025219

yilinwriter.bsky.social•60 days ago

this is on my list! Translated by Anton Hur

donalde.bsky.social•60 days ago

Solenoid by mircea cartarescu

alderson.bsky.social•60 days ago

Honestly, this year the only thing I read in translation was your own “Lantern and Night Moths”. I’ve been lazy.

alderson.bsky.social•60 days ago

I forgot to say that it is a favorite. Thank you.

yilinwriter.bsky.social•60 days ago

Aww thanks

cynshin.bsky.social•60 days ago

Reservoir Bitches!! https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/reservoir-bitches

I heard Julia Sanches talk about her writing practices that made me find her translations. This book was funny, tragic, and flowed so nicely when it had so many different voices. I was up all night reading it.

carturo222.bsky.social•60 days ago

Griso: the One and Only, by Roger Mello / Daniel Hahn
Stranger to the Moon, by Evelio Rosero / Anne McLean + Victor Meadowcroft
Harlequin Butterfly, by Toh EnJoe / David Boyd
The Living and the Rest, by José Eduardo Agualusa / Daniel Hahn

rainisfallingdown.bsky.social•60 days ago

I read a fan translation of Evil as Humans by Nian Zhong. Also a Japanese novel, The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (translation by philip gabriel) told from the pov of the cat.

saraluckelman.bsky.social•60 days ago

Haven't read much (any?) poetry in translation this year, but lots of fiction. Vol 3 of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's Heaven Official's Blessing has one of the saddest/best depictions of watching an entire civilization collapse due to climate change I've ever read.

yilinwriter.bsky.social•60 days ago

MXTX is great but I am boycotting Seven Seas again after how terrible they have been to me as a translator

yilinwriter.bsky.social•60 days ago

Most unethical editing practices for translation I have ever encountered in my life (and honestly treated me worse than the British Museum, which is saying something)

saraluckelman.bsky.social•60 days ago

Ooof. That IS saying something!

saraluckelman.bsky.social•60 days ago

Oh, no, I'm really sorry to hear that.

Is there another publisher you could recommend?

yilinwriter.bsky.social•60 days ago

unfortunately all the official translations into English are with them

but i'd recommend fan translations / c-drama / reading it in another language

the manhua translation i did was completely rewritten by someone who didn't speak any Mandarin, i DO NOT TRUST THEM

saraluckelman.bsky.social•60 days ago

I've been finding fan translations of other works on various platforms -- I'll keep seeking them out! I am also regularly swayed by the intro Chinese lessons my uni offers staff every term...

saraluckelman.bsky.social•60 days ago

(Otherwise, the only languages I know beyond English are Latin and ancient Greek, and I'm doubting much wuxia/xianxia has been translated into those languages...)

xiaotongyang.bsky.social•58 days ago

I find it interesting how many stories now embrace doom and gloom over climate change. But there are real-world benefits to sensible fossil fuel use. It's time we focus on practical energy solutions instead of just narratives.