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August 2026
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The patriarchy passes through the body: Elena Ferrante in conversation with feminist writers
At Tills Bookshop
For a third summer in a row, a series of four Friday seminars on Elena Ferrante's standalone novels — Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter, and The Lying Life of Adults — read alongside feminist writing. Meeting 7, 14, 21, 28 August at Tills Bookshop by the Meadows, 19:00. Open to all levels of familiarity; read Ferrante in Italian, in Ann Goldstein's English translation, or any other language.
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2026
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“To translate a book is to live with it, and within it”: A conversation with Mima Simić on translating Ivana Sajko's work
At Tills Bookshop
A conversation with writer, translator, film critic, and political activist Mima Simić on Every Time We Say Goodbye (V&Q Books), her ongoing
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collaboration with Ivana Sajko, placelessness and translation, and writing and translating from the margins. She has translated two of Sajko's novels, Love Novel and Every Time We Say Goodbye, and is working on a third. Tickets redeemable against the cost of the book(s) on the night.
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The Villain's Dance: a conversation with Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Roland Glasser
At Tills Bookshop
Author Fiston Mwanza Mujila and translator Roland Glasser in conversation to celebrate the UK publication of The Villain's Dance (And Other Stories) —
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Zaire in the late 90s, Mobutu's tottering reign, street kids, diamond hunters, and the Villain's Dance from dusk till dawn. Tickets redeemable against a copy of the book on the night. Supported by Institut Francais in the UK.
2025
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Balkan Rhapsody: A roundtable on Balkan languages in translation with Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne
At Tills Bookshop
A conversation with Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne around translation, Balkan women's writing, and exile, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody by
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Maria Kassimova-Moisset, published by the independent Scottish press Tippermuir Books in Perth.
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Capitalists Must Starve: a conversation with Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur
At Tills Bookshop
Author Park Seolyeon and translator Anton Hur in conversation about writing and translating political fiction, explored through their latest novel, Capitalists Must Starve.
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An Evening With Kate Briggs
At Tills Bookshop
An evening at Tills Bookshop with Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator Kate Briggs.
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Woman, Idle: Laura Vogt in conversation with Annie Rutherford
At Tills Bookshop
The Edinburgh launch of Laura Vogt's latest novel to be translated into English, Woman, Idle — published in the UK by Heloise Press and translated by Caroline Waight.
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What kind of woman have I become? What kind of woman do I want to be?
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Crossing Terrains: A discussion on translation, the natural world, and colonialism with Nedra Rodrigo
At Tills Bookshop
An intimate roundtable with translator Nedra Rodrigo about translation as a decolonial practice focusing on the land.
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Our Brilliant Friends: Three Seminars on the Neapolitan Novels
At Tills Bookshop
For a second summer in a row, a series of three seminars delving into Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, following Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo
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across their sixty-year friendship — novels that changed how we understand authorship and translation.
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The Translation Table at the Feminist Library, Florence, 2025
At the Biblioteca Femminista, Florence
A special series of Translation Table events at the Biblioteca Femminista in Florence — the reading group dedicated to translated literature and
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literature about translation, held in a historic feminist space and directly supporting its work, moving between Italian and English.
2024
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Chronicles of a Heartache: four seminars on Elena Ferrante's standalone novels
At Tills Bookshop
A series of four summer seminars, each exploring one of Ferrante's standalone novels: Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter, and The Lying Life of Adults.
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Translation Table: Diamela Eltit, 'Never Did the Fire' (tr. Daniel Hahn) and Daniel Hahn, 'Catching Fire'
At Tills Bookshop
Never Did the Fire is a peculiar novel, full of ambiguity, strangeness and repetitions — Eltit's experimental style hand in hand with her political commitment.
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How to translate a language so embedded in its time and circumstances?
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Translation Table: Sharon Dodua Otoo, 'Ada's Realm' (tr. Jon Cho-Polizzi) and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, 'The Language of Languages'
At Tills Bookshop
On the hierarchical relationship between languages under colonialism: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's The Language of Languages and its idea of a network of
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languages with translation at its centre, alongside Jon Cho-Polizzi's reflections as translator of Ada's Realm on decentralising a historically eurocentric translation theory.
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Translation Table: Shushan Avagyan, 'A Book, Untitled' (tr. Deanna Cachoian-Schanz) and 'Violent Phenomena' (ed. Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang)
At Tills Bookshop
To read A Book, Untitled is no mean feat: on both levels — Avagyan's original writing and Cachoian-Schanz's translation — Girq asks its readers to
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accept not always understanding what is going on, or whose voice we are reading.
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Translation Table: Mireille Gansel, 'Translation as Transhumance' (tr. Ros Schwartz) and Yoko Tawada, 'Scattered All Over the Earth' (tr. Margaret Mitsutani)
At Tills Bookshop
Two works on language and identity as interconnected — able to create, transform, and mould each other.
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Reflections on forced displacement, losing one's native language, and rebuilding one's self around, and through, an entirely new one.
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Translation Table: Kate Briggs' 'This Little Art'
At Tills Bookshop
This Little Art is a dense, bold and thought-provoking essay exploring translation in a personal, heartfelt way — a great introduction to complex
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ideas about translation that makes the reader feel intimately involved in the translator's world.