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In Taipei last week for the #JinYongCentenary conference. So wonderful to see faces familiar and new. Very inspiring to hear scholars speak about his novels and #wuxia, esp in relation to webnovels and works in other media from recent years. Even the typhoon couldn’t stop us!

Thank you Wenqian Zhang for organising today’s wuxia translation workshop at Uni of Exeter. Learned so much from Prof John Minford’s translation stories and now proud owner of books from his wuxia library 🔥 Wonderful to meet so many translation scholar online friends IRL

If anyone knows about “wonderfully gritty” and “wacky,” it’s Paul Muldoon. Andrei Kurkov and I are extremely grateful to be in the great poet’s bedside pile.

Wow Wow Wow . . . BETWEEN TWO WORLDS by Olivier Norek (translated by Nick Caistor) has been picked as tthe actual CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024. That really is the cherry on the Christmas cake. Limited copies in the warehouse, don't delay!: hachette.co.uk/titles/olivier…

'A police procedural unlike anything else' Olivier Norek’s BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is The Times' crime novel of year! thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Celebrating the shortlist for the 2024 SaifGhobashBanipalPrize Prize, for translations into English of full–length Arabic language works. Kay Heikkinen for Before the Queen Falls Asleep by Huzama Habayeb MacLehose Press Sawad Hussain for Edo's Soulsby Stella Gaitano Dedalus Books

On the ninth day of Christmas, my bookseller gave to me... A phenomenal crime novel! Benjamin recommends 'The Silver Bone' by Andrey Kurkov. Here is what Benjamin says about this book...

A new adaptation of Jin Yong's (Louis Cha Leung-yung) novel, starring Xiao Zhan and Zhuang Dafei, titled The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero, beautifully interprets the Chinese wuxia (martial arts and chivalry) concept of loyalty to family and country. Don't miss this

Super excited!!!!!! Just got tickets for the whole family for the opening day on 29 Jan!

Happy Year of the Snake! 🐍🍊🧧

Just saw the #CondorHeroes film. 2.5 hours whizzed by! Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the English subtitles. If you’re going for #XiaoZhan, you’re in for a treat. The family were all very impressed by his #GuoJing, whether they knew the story or not.

Today's review looks at Baalu Girma's 'Oromay' (translated by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu, courtesy of MacLehose Press), a modern classic from Ethiopia about a man, a woman and an impending war... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/oro…

My work on Andrei Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries feels less and less “historical,” but I am grateful to Antonia Senior for naming THE STOLEN HEART one of the best historical novels of 2025—so far—in The Times and The Sunday Times. MacLehose Press HarperVia

#LegendsOfTheCondorHeroesTheGallants directed by #TsuiHark and starring #XiaoZhan is in cinemas now in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia - Indonesia in a couple of days. #JinYong’s epic #wuxia tale is published by MacLehose Press St. Martin's Press

Samson Kolechko has earned another ⭐ from Publishers Weekly, whose reviewer calls Andrei Kurkov’s THE STOLEN HEART “extraordinary”: “Distinguished by its humor, heart, and subtle political urgency, this series deserves a long life.” MacLehose Press HarperVia

Gratifying to see Andrei Kurkov’s THE STOLEN HEART in an Financial Times roundup of “gripping new crime stories”! A tip of the fedora to the great Barry Forshaw, sleuth of sleuths. MacLehose Press HarperVia

23) Off for an extended trip to Spain with Javier Cercas’s Terra Alta Trilogy. Translated crime fiction at its best. lizzysiddal2.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/the… Published by MacLehose Press

Yesterday’s book purchase from ⁦Waterstones Durham⁩ #FortressOfEvil #JavierCercas ⁦MacLehose Press⁩ ⁦Quercus Books⁩ ⁦Quercus for Booksellers⁩ loved the first two so I’ve high expectations…

Not ashamed to admit that Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦’s The Atlantic essay on Andrei Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries, the third volume of which I am currently steeped in, moved me to tears. It’s a fleetingly rare privilege—for authors, translators, anyone—to be so well understood. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Just 1 WEEK until we announce the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025! 🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L ⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm 📍St Anne's College (St Anne's College)