Your weekly dose of #SFinTranslation links: “An Image of Africa From the Sky: Jules Verne’s ‘Five Weeks in a Balloon’”- a review by John Rieder on LARB “An Isle of Amour and the Human Paradise: The Futuristic Fiction of Nicolas Ségur” by Brian Stableford on The New York Review of Science Fiction “World Weaver Press
Strange Horizons hosted a roundtable on Iraq + 100 (ed. Hassan Blasim) and Arabic sci-fi in general: read it here.
Anne Charnock hosts Cristina Jurado and several other major figures in Spanish sci-fi, fantasy, and horror to talk about the state of the genre. Read it here.
Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed translator Ramon Glazov about his recent project, the Italian spec fic novel The Twenty Days of Turin. Read the interview here.
Over at Waypoint, Piotr Badja spoke to two eastern European fantasy authors about the connections between their novels and other media: “Witcher novelist Andrzej Sapkowski says he doesn’t owe games anything, but Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky thinks games made them both.” Read the conversation here.
Over at the Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Center at the Ohio State University, Sun Mengtian interviewed acclaimed Chinese SF writer Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan): check it out!
This year’s Best Translated Book Award longlist includes four works of speculative fiction in translation! Here’s the entire list: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, from Melville House Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky, from New
Samovar Magazine published a piece I wrote on why I started this website and why SFT is important: check it out!
Samovar Magazine‘s inaugural issue is out now, featuring speculative fiction (translated from Finnish, Hebrew, and Arabic), poetry (translated from Chinese), and reviews! Check it out!!
Lots of news came out this week regarding central and eastern European speculative fiction in English translation… keep ’em comin’ ! The publisher Head of Zeus has acquired World English rights to Polish author Jacek Dukaj’s thousand-page-long novel Ice. The book “conjur[es] an alternate 20th Century, where Russia and half of Europe are
