25 May
By Jennifer Croft I’ve been getting a lot of good news lately. Among the best of it is the fact that Frank Wynne’s translation of the next volume of Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy is done and will be out in July. I can’t believe I get to read another one! Let alone two more. […]
16 May
Thursday 17th May 2018 7pm – 8pm 107 Charing Cross Road Literary Event In anticipation of the Man Booker International Prize winner announcement on Tuesday 22nd May, join some of the finest international translators working with the English language today for a discussion of their craft… The evening will consist of a discussion from the […]
10 May
Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 1: review by Rebecca Rukeyser … The characters in Vernon Subutex 1, in all their livid ugliness, thrust the reader into unexpected empathy. Vernon is a hangdog Everyman even at his most cretinous, and the most unsavory of his hosts reveal anguish layered under their scar tissue. Vernon Subutex grinds you […]
02 May
“With the first in a picaresque trilogy, now shortlisted for the Man Booker international prize, Virginie Despentes has delivered both an achingly cool punk burlesque and a satirical epic with nods to Rabelais and Swift. A foul-mouthed skewering of the morass that is modern society, and France in particular, the book is translated by Frank […]
19 Apr
With Boyd Tonkin, former chair of the International Booker and author of the forthcoming The 100 Best Novels in Translation, and Frank Wynne, nominated in the International Booker shortlist for his translation of Virginie Despentes. Presented by Sam Leith. Read more at Audioboom…
12 Apr
Short film from the Man Booker International Prize 2018 short-list announcement ceremony at Somerset House, London.
12 Apr
The Man Booker International Prize today, Thursday 12 April, reveals the shortlist of six books in contention for the 2018 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world. The £50,000 prize for the winning book will be divided equally between its author and translator. The 2018 shortlist is as follows: […]
02 Apr
The Man Booker International Prize have produced a Readers’ Guide to Vernon Subutex 1 – download it here…
