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It was quite the fairytale of a book fair. In the spiffy Victorian palace of consumerism that is Kensington Olympia, the Literary Translatio...

It's the school holidays this week, which makes me instantly relaxed and slows me down. Rather a blissful state, to be honest. And next ...

Two lots of talks: one in London organised by the Translators Association and featuring my pal Jamie Lee Searle and me talking to translat...

A quick round-up of all sorts of things: The Prize of the SWR Bestenliste - an annual riff on the monthly SWR Bestenliste, a list of top ...

The London Book Fair just finished and thousands of publishing people put their hands to their shrunken wallets in relief. Phew! Now we can ...

Most of the programme for the Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair is now online. I want to go to every single event. I'...

London is rather nice in the spring, you know. And if you're going anyway you could sign up for a translation masterclass at the London...

Or perhaps you're in London or thereabouts and it's cold and you feel the need for a dead white Austrian writer in your life. No nee...

I believe I've written about it before, but I'm still admiring London's Free Word Centre' s translation residency programme....

Sport, eh? Most bookish types will agree it's a bit crap, or at least the participatory bit. Stops you thinking weighty thoughts, what w...

Here are three interesting things to do, wherever you are: 1. If you're in Berlin, you should obviously go to the Lange Buchnacht in d...

I just got back from the London Book Fair. It's only the second time I've ever been, for some reason. Possibly because on my first v...

Have I mentioned that Dalkey Archive Press's latest edition of their Best European Fiction anthology includes a story by Clemens Meyer?...

Brits! March is the month to catch outstanding German writers on your very own turf! To wit:  Clemens Meyer at Edinburgh's Wee Red Bar ...

Everybody knows New Books in German , right? The UK's most fantastic vehicle for promoting literature written in German? To English-spea...

Four readings in three days and two countries is nothing to be sniffed at. And to launch Clemens Meyer's short story collection All the ...

love german books is taking a holiday over the next two weeks. But you can catch me in person at a couple of translation-related events in B...

Do you live in London? Dull, isn't it? But not for much longer! For a plethora of exciting events will soon take you to Austrian literar...

I've been away over Easter doing mainly non-German-book-related things. But while I was at it I met the gregarious British journalist an...

Quick! If you're in London you can still book for an event about translating smutty stuff at the South Bank Centre on Wednesday night. ...