January 2020 sees the English-language publication of Rodaan Al-Galidi’s Two Blankets, Three Sheets – already a bestseller in the Netherlands and Germany. Taking its name from the two blankets, three sheets, a towel, a pillow and a pillowcase (the items he was given when he claimed...
As 2019 draws to a close, we at World Editions are reflecting on the support we have received from so many of you this year. While compiling our Thank You note list, we realized that there are hundreds of people who have helped us spread...
This past weekend in Rochester, New York, World Editions was in attendance at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Conference, where we got to see some of our wonderful translators and meet exciting new ones. See below our Editor in Chief, Lydia Unsworth, with translators...
The blog tour celebrating the UK publication of Gary Barker's The Museum of Lost Love has successfully come to a close! Check out all of our great reviews from our bloggers below. Monday 7 Oct Bella Jones @BellaOJones Tues 8 Oct Novel Delights @KirstHutchison Wed 9 Oct ...
She is speaking at the London Literature Festival (link) on 26 October and also be appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour (25 October link) Already published in the US to critical acclaim, and nominated for the ‘Swedish Booker’, the August prize, Welcome to America is...
At the World Editions offices we are very excited to read here in The Guardian that Maryse Condé may be in the running for a Nobel Prize in Literature this year. According to the article: "The Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya, the Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, and The...
Come and see our author Esther Gerritsen, writer of Craving (reviewed by the New York Times here) and the soon-to-be-released Roxy, on stage with a whole host of other brilliant names at this event exploring new Dutch literature at the British Library in October. From the...
Hector Abad visited London this month to launch the English translation of his memoir, Oblivion. He did three BBC interviews, including BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning With…, BBC Radio 3 Freethinking (broadcast on Wednesday 25 September – link is here) And the World Service Book Club...
Rodaan’s book, Two Blankets, Three Sheets, is published in January 2020. It’s a fictionalized account of the author’s time in a Dutch asylum centre. He arrives in the Netherlands as a refugee – he claims asylum at Schiphol Airport after seven years on the run...
Esther Gerritsen, bestselling Dutch author of Craving and Roxy will be discussing the darker side of the human psyche with Hermann Koch at a special day of Dutch writing at the British Library on Saturday 12 October. Link here Other writers appearing include Simon Schama, Costa...