The deadline for submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation is this Friday 3 May, hard copies to reach us by Friday 10 May. Submission form is here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… We'll publish the full list of submissions in May.

★★★★ Jean-Guihen Queyras @Philharmonia Masaaki Suzuki Southbank Centre - #Japan 's #Bach maestro flourishes in fresh fields, says Boyd Tonkin, as he explores #Beethoven #Schumann and #Dvořák with genial elegance and precision theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

'A sensitive, compassionate man in a brutal and treacherous society'. My obituary of the peerless @CJSansom, creator of the superb Shardlake Tudor mysteries and much more first-class fiction, The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

All 10 #EBRDLiteraturePrize2024 shortlisted books are superb. Yet Maureen Freely, Philippe Sands & I unanimously chose three frontrunners. Congrats to all! I announce the winner The EBRD on 13 June. Archipelago Books Books at NYRB Jantar Publishing Toby Lichtig Justine Jordan Charlotte Northedge

Much to admire about legendary @MadhurJaffrey, her career & her life. Add also this beautiful essay, written at 90!

It starts in 1857 and will teach you about how tamarind got its name: 'Arab travellers referred to it as tamar-i-hind—the dates of India.'
newyorker.com/culture/secret…

'Knife' 'has pace, drive, urgency – along with surprise doses of comedy, tenderness and wonder.' For FT Weekend I wrote about Salman Rushdie's defiant, uplifting memoir of an almost-assassination Jonathan Cape

'Some critics worried that the vagabond hedonist was enjoying himself too much.'

Boyd Tonkin (Boyd Tonkin) on a pagan pantheist who melted cubism or surrealism into sun and fun
the-tls.co.uk/articles/john-…

A very happy paperback publication day!! Michael Arditti 💐🥂

“The story is so interesting, the theme so important and pertinent, and the fluency and lightness of touch so engaging to read” Philip Pullman

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No political playwright of my generation wasn't shaped by Trevor Griffiths, and in awe of his theatre and television work, from Occupations and Comedians to Country. Jack's tweet demonstrates that Trevor's influence has continued to inspire new generations. Long may it continue.

★★★★ Joys of springtime: Bach's Easter Oratoriom OAE, Peter Whelan at QEH Southbank Centre Boyd Tonkin reviews the upbeat, sunlit side of Holy Week Bach theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

Congratulations to Maureen Freely on being named the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Winner 2023 by National Book Critics Circle for her translation of Tezer Özlü’s 'Cold Nights of Childhood' (@transitbooks).

Delighted to collaborate at OxfordLitFest this year! Many thanks to The Telegraph, @Netflix, University of Oxford, Embassy of Spain UK and others!

Our highlights included:

- Javier Cercas with Boyd Tonkin on his life and work
- Vicente Luis Mora with A K BLAKEMORE on his novel Centroeuropa

Meet the RSL International Writers' judging panel for 2024🤩

This year's chair, Kit Fan , will be joined by Moniza Alvi, Kwame Anthony Appiah , Chloe Aridjis, Homi K. Bhabha, Margaret Busby, Maureen Freely, Deirdre Osborne and Nathalie Teitler.

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So here it is: I think there’s a bit of writing which belongs to Shakespeare’s sister. academic.oup.com/sq/advance-art…

Where a guest is a gift from God. Plse join me with novelist Leo Vardiashvili - who wrote this great FT Weekend travel piece on #Georgia - in the new Georgian programme I've started OxfordLitFest: Thursday 21 March, 10am. Tickets: oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve… ft.com/content/c46b2a…

Thank you to Maya Jaggi for bringing the first ever Georgian programme to the Oxford Literary Festival. It was a total joy to hear Aka Morchiladze and Dato Turashvili talk about their books and Georgian literature.

Last night, I was delighted to present Tom Crewe with the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. Here is my interview with Tom, who didn’t know at the time that he’d won.

thetimes.co.uk/article/fe8909…

🥳 Congrats to all the authors and presses on this list, and especially to my fellow translators! Maya Jaggi announced it at the end of our OxfordLitFest panel today, and given my focus on preparing for the event, it honestly didn’t occur to me I might be on the list 🤓

...and OxfordLitFest program on literature of #Georgia starts tomorrow, 18:00, with a great line-up. Maya Jaggi oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve…

'There used to be a degree of literary snobbery against ‘historical fiction’, but the Walter Scott Prize has helped immensely in changing that mindset.' A super conversation with our 2013 winner Tan Twan Eng, who's also longlisted this year: johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2024/02/29/con…