Literature in Translation
GlobalEurope looks back and picks its favorite literary translations published in 2025.
Category: Literature in Translation
“Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.” –George Steiner
Literature in Translation
Translated by TESS LEWIS | Horsetails swayed on the bank, stretching their heads toward the water and behind them, barberries glowed on the hedge through the dark tree trunks.
Literature in Translation
Translated by OLIVIA OLSEN | listen to / open beaks / open wounds / their terror in the nets / in the steel wire snares…
Literature in Translation
Translated by AQIIL M. GOPEE with JEFFREY DITEMAN | A milky glow, the gauze of dawn, had begun to appear, vaguely wafting over the edges of the Orient.
Literature in Translation
Translated by LISA HOFMANN-KURODA | Perhaps the desire to learn another language as an adult is simply a nostalgic yearning for that time in infancy when we had completely unrestricted movement over our tongue and lips.