Istros Conversations

Istros Conversations

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Istros Conversations episodes

  • Interview with Katja Perat
    The author of THE MASOCHIST talks about her writing, the publication of her fist novel and the sense of home for a person who lives abroad
    This episode was recorded as part of Trafika Europe Radio's The Middle Ground series, exploring the literature of Central and Eastern Europe.
    See more at https://www.trafikaeurope.org/podcast/the-middle-ground/?c=04007ae3e449
    47 min
  • A Tale from Montenegro
    An interview with Olja Knežević about her novel Catherine the Great and the Small, together with her translators, Paula Gordon & Ellen Elias-Bursać 

    Re-posted with the kind permission of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast series
    1 hr 3 min
  • United in Bread
    Christina Zoric and Stephen Watts discuss the author of 'Our Daily Bread', Predrag Matvejević, a European academic and writer whose life and work were committed to cross-cultural pollination and furthering understanding in our common humanity.
    Join us as we discuss this uniquely meditative history of bread and its long-standing importance to peoples and faiths across the Mediterranean and beyond.
    29 min
  • Talking Turkish
    This episode was originally produced for Trafika Europe Radio's Women in Translation series: https://trafikaeurope.org/go/radio
    28 min
  • A Room of One's Own
    Author Olja Knezevic talks about writing as a woman and the importance of finding one's own space; the dangers of national identities, and how a Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck (University of London) helped her find her true voice
    21 min
  • An English Home for a Slovenian Narrative - Talking to translator Rawley Grau

    Rawley Grau - in town to attend the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize ceremony - talks to poet and editor, Stephen Watts about his translation of the novel PANORAMA by Dušan Šarotar. Rawley is one of the finest translators working from Slovene into English today, and his work has included prose from Boris Pintar, plays by Ivan Cankar, and essays by Aleš Debeljak. Panorama is his second book translation for Istros Books.

    30 min
  • Aleš Šteger's novel 'Absolution' - The Power of Forgiveness

    The Slovenian writer Aleš Šteger talks to poet and translator, Stephen Watts about his debut novel, Absolution. In the tradition of Bulgakov and Gogol, Šteger lets the forces of good and evil collide in this grandiose literary thriller. This is a debut novel filled with striking personae, haunting images and a grotesque plot. It proves, in the end, to be a journey into the heart of a European darkness.

    20 min
  • Discussing Antonín Bajaja's novel with Rajendra Chitnis

    'Burying the Season' is an affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe in the 20th century, just out from Jantar publishing. Listen to Rajendra Chitnis of Bristol University read from his foreword to the book, and tell us how Fellini’s Amarcord and Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons play a role in the lives of the citizens of Zlin, as they navigate through turbulent decades with humour and integrity.

    35 min

About Istros Conversations

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Istros Conversations has been set up by Istros Books to talk about the art of literature, with particular attention to literature in translation, and the process through which words are remade and thoughts conveyed across languages and cultures.

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