Eric M. B. Becker

What particular translation challenges arose as you brought Layla Martínez’s Woodworm into English? Listen to Sophie Hughes discuss her cotranslation of Layla Martínez’s Woodworm Sophie Hughes: Woodworm is a story of two isolated women, a grandmother and granddaughter who live in rural Spain in a house that’s teeming with dark family secrets going back generations.

Can you talk about how The Book Censor’s Library came into the world—first, the germ of the original language, and then the translation? Listen to Bothayna Al-Essa discuss her novel The Book Censor’s Library Bothayna Al-Essa: The idea of The Book Censor’s Library came to me because I am also a bookseller who has to deal with inspectors and censorship every day, and I always wondered what it felt like for people censoring books.

Can you talk about how Ædnan came into the world—first, the germ of the original language, and then the translation? Listen to Linnea Axelsson discuss the origins of Ædnan Linnea Axelsson: The first sprout I think to Ædnan was an image I saw, an inner image, of a woman, an older woman and her kind of silence, the silence she had in her face and the seriousness she had. I struggled for a long time to approach her and get into her life and understand who she was and what she had lived.