Marlaine Delargy grew up in Manchester, England; studied in Aberystwyth, Wales; worked in Sweden and Finland; and taught in Welshpool in Powys and Bewdley in Worcestershire until 2004. She now lives in rural Shropshire with the obligatory collection of spoiled cats. Rachel Cordasco: You have translated many Swedish texts, the majority
SHORT STORIES “No One at the Wild Dock” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld, January 1) “Devour Me” by Yuki Fuwa, translated from the Japanese by (World Literature Today, January) “City Lights” by Yilun Fan, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Apex Magazine, January) “Lamia” by Cristina
This year, I tried something different. Instead of just looking at how many short stories were published in magazines/webzines, and then grouping collections with novels and anthologies (while not pulling out the separate short stories in those collections), I decided to lay out how many short stories were published in zines and how many were
JANUARY “The Tale of Ak and Humanity” by Yefim Zozulya, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Tor.com). “Sulphur” by Dmitry Glukhovsky, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz (Asymptote). “Lamia” by Cristina Jurado, translated from the Spanish by Monica Louzon (Apex). “City Lights” by Yilun Fan, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu
JANUARY Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson (FSG, January 11) On an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1990s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle. Then, in one startling moment, Anna misreads a word, an alternate universe
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG a whole TRILOGY by Israeli SF author Shimon Adaf is coming out in 2022 in English!! Thank you to translator Yardenne Greenspan and to Picador for making this happen! So while you wait, go read some Shimon Adaf that’s already in English: here, Sunburnt Faces, and “They Had to Move” (Zion’s Fiction).
Over on Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, Joachim Boaz reviews Jean-Louis Curtis’s 1956 collection The Neon Halo (tr. Humphrey Hare, 1958). Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: The French novelist Jean-Louis Curtis (1917-1995), best known for his Prix Goncourt-winning The Forests of the Night (1947), crafts a linked series of short stories in The
Congrats to Ian Campbell on the publication of Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation (out from Palgrave- part of their “Studies in Global Science Fiction” series). I’m honored to have been asked to contribute a chapter!
SHORT STORIES “Other Stories” by Wang Yuan, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, December 1) “A Mountain of Dust” by Wanxiang Fengnian, translated from the Chinese by Judith Huang (FSFD, December 15) REVIEWS Rachel Cordasco reviewed The Membranes on Strange Horizons
