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The BookBlast® Podcast is for writers, translators and curious readers who want a behind-the-scenes snapshot of the world of literature and translation.
BookBlast® Diary launched in 2015 to celebrate independent thinking and international literature.
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S5E61 Lovers of Franz K. Burhan Sönmez with Kirsty Gunn novelist BookBlast® Book Club
Book Club Lovers of Franz K. Burhan Sönmez with Kirsty Gunn, novelist Lovers of Franz K. by Burhan Sönmez appears to be focused on the fate of Ferdy Kaplan who is arrested in 1968 West Berlin for…
S5E60 The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek, BookBlast® Book Club at Hatchards
The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek, beautifully translated by Nick Caistor, out with Open Borders Press, is based on the forgotten conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union known as the Winter…
S5E58 Byron and the Beauty, Muharem Bazdulj BookBlast® Book Club with Istros Books
Byron and the Beauty: A Turkish Tale by Muharem Bazdulj, translated by John Cox (2016), is an atmospheric, fictional reimagining of Lord Byron’s 1809 travels through the Balkans. Set over two weeks…
S5E57 Small Boat, Vincent Delecroix BookBlast® Book Club with Helen Stevenson
Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker and read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix is a stark, tragic, beautifully written novel which confronts the moral…
S5E56 Rosamund Bartlett & Elena Michajlowska on Chekhov’s Earliest Stories
Anton Chekhov’s short stories are staples of English literature degrees and creative writing courses alike, yet his earliest stories written between the ages of twenty and twenty-two are often…
S5E55 Far, Rosa Ribas BookBlast® Book Club with Richard Village
“He wanted to forget not only what he’d done, but above all the person he was when he did it and the reasons he’d become so corrupt.” A man on the run breaks into an unoccupied flat in an isolated,…
S4E54 The National Telepathy, BookBlast® Book Club with Frank Wynne
The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person on the second Monday of each month, hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss works of fiction in English translation…
S3E53 Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro, Book Club with the Author
Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro translated by Frances Riddle, out with Charco Press, discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London, in person with the author and her…
S3E52 Fathers and Fugitives, S. J. Naude, Book Club with the Publisher
Fathers and Fugitives by S. J. Naude translated by Michiel Heyns, out with Europa Editions, discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London. Fathers and Fugitives…
S3E51 Record of a Night Too Brief, Hiromi Kawakami, BookBlast® Book Club
Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Lucy North, published by Pushkin Press discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London. Record of a…
S3E50 A Dictator Calls, Ismail Kadare, BookBlast® Book Club
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare translated by John Hodgson discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly Ismail Kadare, the renowned Albanian novelist and poet, navigated…
S3E49 Clara Reads Proust, Stephane Carlier, BookBlast® Book Club
Clara Reads Proust by Stephane Carlier translated by Polly Mackintosh discussed at the BookBlast Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly. Set in part in a hairdresser's salon in regional France…
S2E48 Warsaw Tales, BookBlast® Book Club with Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person on the second Monday of each month, hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss works of fiction in translation published…
S2024E30 Georgia de Chamberet en conversation avec Simon Bentolila de Lire Magazine (in French)
Pour célébrer la parution du livre 'Une femme, deux hommes Lesley Blanch, Théodore Kommissarzhevsky et Romain Gary' à la Maison de Balzac, Paris, le Mercredi 5 Juin 2024, Simon Bentolila de Lire…
S2024E29 Sian Williams in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet
Georgia de Chamberet at BookBlast® is delighted to interview Sian Williams, the visionary founder of the Children’s Bookshow. Discover how this much loved and hugely popular national tour of writers…
S3E28 Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet
Prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet and academic, Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet about the events and cultures that have inspired him. Born in 1965 in Djibouti, he…
S3E27 Found in Translation | Fatima Daas discusses literary sensation, The Last One (French & English)
An autobiographical first novel, The Last One tells the story of Fatima and her family. The confusing polarities between different worlds and cultures that are portrayed sparked an intense Media…
S3E26 Found in Translation | Faïza Guène (author) & Sarah Ardizzone (translator) on Men Don’t Cry
Faïza Guène writes about normal people living in urban tower block estates surrounding cities like Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. Her first novel, Kiffe kiffe demain, published in England under the…
S3E25 Interview with Natasha Lehrer, translator of Consent by Vanessa Springora
Vanessa Springora’s memoir, Consent, became an instant, international literary sensation when it was published in France in January 2020. Her beautifully written, intimate and powerful description of…
S2E24 Bridging the Divide #15 | Georgian author Beka Adamashvili & Tamar Japaridze on literary satire
As a reminder of what entertaining, inoffensive satire constitutes, pick up a copy of Bestseller by Georgian trailblazer, Beka Adamashvili, deftly translated by Tamar Japaridze, published by Dedalus…
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