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  • Episode 28 - Best Books of 2020

    My Guest is Derek Maine and Dan from Weird Book Book Club and we are talking about our favourite books of 2020. 

    This was taken from a live show, if you want to see that.

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    Mentioned in this episode;

    • Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (translated by Jamie Chang)
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid (translated by David Raeburn)
  • The Time of Year by Marie NDiaye (translated by Jordan Stump)
  • Flieshman is in Trouble by by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 
  • Free Day by Inès Cagnati (translated by Liesl Schillinger)
  • The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
  • Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
  • Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd)
  • Life (A User Manual) by Georges Perec (translated by David Bellos)
  • The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue (translated by Pablo Strauss)
  • Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
  • A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti (translated by Fionn Petch)
  • Older Brother by Mahir Guven (translated by Tina Kover)
  • Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
  • EEG by Daša Drndić (translated by Celia Hawkesworth)

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    • Twitter: derekmainelives
  • YouTube: Derek Maine

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    • Twitter: WeirdBBC
  • YouTube: Weird Book Book Club

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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    1 hr 50 min
  • Episode 27 - Crime and Punishment

    My Guest is Derek Maine and we are talking about Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Oliver Ready)

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    Mentioned in this episode;

    • The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa (translated by Samantha Schnee)
  • Live Show on Satire
  • Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Hugh Aplin)
  • Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney)
  • William Faulkner
  • Candide by Voltaire (translated by Theo Cuffe)
  • Vengeance in Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan (translated by Annie Tucker)
  • Revenge of a Translator by Brice Matthieussent (translated by Emma Ramadan)
  • Revolutions
  • Underworld by Don DeLillo
  • Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati (translated by Antony Shugaar)
  • Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan (translated by Annie Tucker)
  • Scribd

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    • Twitter: derekmainereads
  • YouTube: Read The World!

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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 26 - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

    Join Mary and I as we discuss Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (translated by Jamie Chang)

    Podcast Transcript coming soon

    Mentioned in this episode;

    • 2020 Global Pay Gap
  • Bombshell (2019)
  • Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd)
  • The Dutchess (2020)
  • Mrs America (2020)
  • Catastrophe (2015)
  • The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
  • Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)
  • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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    • Twitter: jus_de_fruit
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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    41 min
  • Episode 25 - And The Birds Rained Down

    Join Mary and I as we discuss And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier (translated Rhonda Mullins)

    Podcast Transcript

    Mentioned in this episode;

    • Canada Reads
  • The Book Club
  • When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
  • The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
  • Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes by Kamal Al-Solaylee
  • Ru by Kim Thuy
  • A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (translated by Sam Taylor)
  • And the Birds Rained Down (2019)
  • Grace and Frankie
  • The Golden Girls
  • Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd)
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
  • Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)
  • Kulinmaya! Keep Listening, Everybody! by Mumu Mike Williams
  • Sandtalk by Tyson Yunkaporta 
  • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  • Dorothy Koomson

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    • Twitter: jus_de_fruit
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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    33 min
  • Episode 24 - Hurricane Season

    My Guest is Derek Maine and we are talking about Hurrican Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)

    ** Delay in episode releases due to illness, apologies **

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    Mentioned in this episode;

    • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • Don DeLillo
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • Raymond Carver
  • John Cheever
  • Falconer by John Cheever
  • Libra by Don DeLillo
  • Underworld by Don DeLillo   
  • White Noise by Don DeLillo
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Rosamund Bartlett)
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Aylmer & Louise Maude)
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Hugh Aplin)
  • In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (translated by Harry Willets)
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (translated by Alison Anderson)
  • Submission by Michel Houellebecq (translated by Lorin Stein)
  • One Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Chris Andrews)
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
  • The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Oliver Ready)
  • César Aira
  • Enrique Vila-Matas
  • Damian Kelleher
  • László Krasznahorkai
  • Six Minutes to Me
  • Weird Book Book Club
  • Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (translated by Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff)
  • An Orphan World by Giuseppe Caputo (translated by Sophie Hughes & Juana Adcock)
  • 2666 review by The Weird Book Book Club
  • Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad (translated by Agnes Scott Langeland)
  • Review by Derek
  • Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins)
  • Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
  • Shawn the Book Manic
  • Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas (translated by Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie Hughes)
  • Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette (translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)
  • Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury)
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • Interview with Sophie Hughes
  • City of Gods (2003)
  • Dennis Cooper
  • The Last Wolf by László Krasznahorkai (translated by John Batki & George Szirtes)
  • Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai (translated by Ottilie Mulzet)
  • Ducks, Newsburyport by Lucy Ellmann
  • Agnese from Beyond the Epilogue
  • Charles Bukowski
  • International Booker Prize Shortlist 2020
  • New Directions
  • Fitzcarraldo Press
  • Closer by Dennis Cooper
  • The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
  • Review of The Sluts by CravingBooks

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    • Twitter: derekmainereads
  • YouTube: Read The World!

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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 23 - Interview with Sophie Hughes

    Join me as I interview translator Sophie Hughes about her process and the books she has translated and Europa28.

    Podcast Transcript coming soon

    Books translated by Sophie Hughes mentioned in this episode;

    • Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún
  • Umami by Laia Jufresa
  • The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse by Iván Repila
  • Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas (with Margaret Jull Costa)
  • The Hole by José Revueltas (with Amanda Hopkinson)
  • Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
  • Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe (edited with Sarah Cleave)
  • The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán

    • Coming soon

    • Las homicidas by Alia Trabucco Zerán
  • Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro
  • Aquí no es Miami by Fernanda Melchor

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    Other mentions 

    • Shaun Whiteside
  • Javier Marías
  • Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
  • The Infatuations by Javier Marías (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
  • Ann Morgan
  • Charco Press
  • The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh)
  • The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin)
  • Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
  • Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins)
  • The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)
  • Roberto Bolaño

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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    34 min
  • Bonus Episode: The BTBA Longlist 2020

    My Guest is Derek Maine and we are talking about the BTBA Longlist 2020

    Podcast Transcript Coming Soon

    Mentioned in this episode;

    • The Wind that Lays Waste by Selva Almada, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews (Argentina, Graywolf)
  • The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright (Iraq, Yale University Press)
  • Welcome to America by Linda Boström Knausgård, translated from the Swedish by Martin Aitken (Sweden, World Editions)
  • Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated from the French by Frank Wynne (France, Grove)
  • Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes, translated from the French by Frank Wynne (France, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Italy, Europa Editions)
  • EEG by Daša Drndić, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth (Croatia, New Directions)
  • Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Chile, Graywolf)
  • Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (Russia, New York Review Books)
  • Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, translated from the Spanish by Sara Moses and Carolina Orloff (Argentina, Charco Press)
  • Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Verso)
  • Good Will Come From the Sea by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich (Greece, Archipelago Books)
  • Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated from the Spanish by Achy Obejas (Dominican Republic, And Other Stories)
  • China Dream by Ma Jian, translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew (China, Counterpoint)
  • Parade by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell (Japan, Soft Skull)
  • Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (Syria, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • The Boy by Marcus Malte, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge (France, Restless Books)
  • The Cheffe: A Cook’s Novel by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordon Stump (France, Knopf)
  • The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (Japan, Pantheon)
  • A Dream Come True by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (Uruguay, Archipelago Books)
  • 77 by Guillermo Saccomanno, translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger (Argentina, Open Letter Books)
  • Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated from the Italian by Aaron Robertson (Italy, Two Lines Press)
  • Labyrinth by Burhan Sönmez, translated from the Turkish by Umit Hussein (Turkey, Other Press)
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Poland, Riverhead)
  • Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt (Japan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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    • Twitter: derekmainereads
  • YouTube: Read The World!
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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 22 - International Booker 2020

    My Guest is Mary and we are talking about the International Booker Longlist 2020

    Podcast Transcript Coming Soon

    Mentioned in this episode;

    • Red Dog by Willem Anker (Afrikaans – South Africa), translated by Michiel Heyns, from Pushkin Press
  • The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar (Farsi – Iran) translation Anonymous, from Europa Editions
  • The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Spanish – Argentina), translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh, from Charco Press
  • The Other Name: Septology I – II by Jon Fosse (Norwegian – Norway), translated by Damion Searls, from Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (German – Georgia), translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, from Scribe UK
  • Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq (French – France), translated by Shaun Whiteside. from William Heinemann
  • Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann (German – Germany), translated by Ross Benjamin, from Quercus
  • Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, (Spanish – Mexico), translated by Sophie Hughes, from Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Japanese – Japan), translated by Stephen Snyder, from Harvill Secker
  • Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (French – France), translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins, from Peirene Press
  • Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (Spanish – Argentina), translated by Megan McDowell, from Oneworld
  • The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Dutch – Netherlands), translated by Michele Hutchison, from Faber & Faber
  • Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas, (Spanish – Spain), translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes, from Harvill Secker

    • Find Mary online

    • Twitter: jus_de_fruit
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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    31 min
  • Episode 21 - Interview with Tina Kover

    Join me as I interview translator Tina Kover about her process and the books she has translated and world literature.

    Podcast Transcript

    Mentioned in this episode;

    • Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
  • The Black City by George Sand
  • Georges by Alexandre Dumas
  • Tina Kover Interview on Reading Women Podcast
  • The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon
  • A Summer with Montaigne by Antoine Compagnon
  • Older Brother by Mahir Guven
  • Revenge of the Translator by Brice Matthieussent (translated by Emma Ramadan)
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austin
  • The Beauty of the Death Cap by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Cosmos Incorporated by Maurice G. Dantec
  • Grand Junction by Maurice G. Dantec
  • Manette Salomon by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
  • Goncourt Prize
  • Mediterranean Wall by Louis-Philippe Dalembert
  • Spring in Tehran by Armin Arefi
  • The French Publishers’ Agency
  • Snuggly Books
  • Del Rey Books
  • Translating Women

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    Not mentioned, but new translation from Tina Kover coming soon;

    • In the Shadow of the Fire by Herve Le Corre (from Europa Editions)

     

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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    32 min
  • Episode 20 - 2019 Reading Highlights

    I am joined by Agnese (Beyond the Epilogue) to discuss our reading highlights for 2019

    Podcast Transcript

    Mentioned in this episode;

    • Man Booker International Prize
  • BTBA (Best Translated Book Award)
  • National Book Award Translation Prize
  • Women in Translated Month #WITMonth
  • Best100WIT List #100BestWIT
  • Best100WIT Book Club
  • The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin (translated by Lisa Hayden)
  • Episode 10: The Aviator
  • The Years by Annie Ernaux (translated by Alison L. Strayer)
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
  • Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (translated by Tina Kover)
  • Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger (translated by Cécile Menon & Natasha Lehrer)
  • Wanda (1971)
  • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
  • Daša Drndić
  • Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)
  • Episode 2: Faces in the Crowd
  • The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner)
  • The S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (Society for Cutting Up Men)
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
  • 77 by Guillermo Saccomanno (translated by Andrea G. Labinger)
  • The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
  • The Wind that Lays Waste by Selva Almada (translated by Chris Andrews)
  • Charco Press
  • Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (translated by Bonnie Huie)
  • A Nail, A Rose by Madeleine Bourdouxhe (translated by Faith Evans)
  • Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda (translated by Martha Tennent)
  • Midsommar (2018)
  • How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić (translated by Anthea Bell)
  • The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya (translated by Jamey Gambrell)
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya (translated by Anya Migdal)
    • Episode 7: Aetherial Worlds
  • Memoirs of a Life Cut Short by Ričardas Gavelis (translated by Jayde Will)
  • Homo Sovieticus
  • Vagabond Voices
  • Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena (translated by Margita Gailitis)
  • Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (translated by Marjam Idriss)
  • Raw (2017)
  • When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt (translated by Denise Newman)
  • The Little Girl in the Ice Floe by Adelaïde Bon (translated by Tina Kover)
  • Episode 18: The Little Girl on the Ice Floe
  • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
  • Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)
  • The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft) – Released in March 2021
  • The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) - Released in June 2020
  • Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
  • Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
  • Agnese recommends some horror in translation
  • Jo Nesbø
  • Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury)
  • Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
  • The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
  • The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati (translated by Antony Shugaar)
  • László Krasznahorkai

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    Produced by Mccauliflower.

    1 hr 6 min

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