Litro celebrates the power of translated fiction with its top 8 picks of translated books that have enriched the literary landscape of 2023.
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Author Robin Stevens reflects on the pressures of conforming to feminine expectations during Christmas, advocating for the timeless joy of gifting books.
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How does the Booker Prize maintain its relevance in contemporary literature? From Paul Lynch’s recent win to debates on subjectivity and the balance between commercialization and creativity, this article delves ...
Reflecting on life and life’s lessons.
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Third place winner of The Art of Reflection Competition 2022
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I guess dads were breakable after all.
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How did he know the deer was a girl?
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Natalie Morris talks about her debut book Mixed/Other
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Author Yu Miri surveys novels about Tokyo.
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Shuggie Bain lays bare the reality of poverty and inequality in this moving debut
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In her second poetry collection, Natalie Diaz explores the conflict between violence and love, pleasure and pain, colonial genocide…..
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In Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat fuses factual events, from the lynching of a Syrian American man in 1920s Florida to the abduction of Etan Patz in 1970s New ...
Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold bursts with ideas, electric with the joy of words. Capildeo is a writer enamoured with language, and her book offers up sextina, rondeau, motet, dialogue, ...
Although a translation of her short novel Ms Ice Sandwich was brought out by Pushkin Press in 2017, Breasts and Eggs is the first full-length fiction by Mieko Kawakami to ...
In Night of the Long Goodbyes, Erik Martiny takes us into a dystopian near-future. Set in the mid-21st century, Britain is in the grip of hyperpopulist post-Brexit politics.
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Read Litro’s interview with Guillermo Stitch.
Lake of Urine is original and absorbing, a mad whirly-gig romp through the lives of ...
Guillermo Stitch is the author of the award-winning novel, Literature™, and the novel, Lake of Urine: A Love Story.
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Set in the years following the Mexican Revolution, El Llano in Flames is a collection of stark and violent short stories translated by Stephen Beechinor.
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Only a Lodger … And Hardly That. The title’s borrowed from the eighteenth-century writer and composer Charles Ignatius Sancho, who gained notoriety as the first British African eligible to vote ...
“No novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this” – Toni Morrison.
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