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March 25, 2025

Shahnameh, translated by Ahmad Sadri

March 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Shahnameh, translated by Ahmad Sadri

A new prose translation of the great Persian epic

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March 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Shahnameh, Ferdowsi, Ahmad Sadri, Persian literature, Persian epic, literature in translation
January 31, 2025

Andromeda by Therese Bohman

January 31, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Andromeda by Therese Bohman

A novel in which two members of a publishing house reflect on their work and life together

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January 31, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Andromeda, Therese Bohman, Marlaine Delargy, fiction, literature in translation, Swedish fiction, contemporary fiction
January 13, 2025

The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto

January 13, 2025/ Eric Bies
The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto

A new translation of the concluding volume of the author’s Trilogy of Expectation

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January 13, 2025/ Eric Bies/
The Suicides, Antonio di Benedetto, Esther Allen, literature in translation, fiction
January 04, 2025

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Kurt Beals

January 04, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Kurt Beals

A new translation of the great war-novel

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January 04, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Kurt Beals, literature in translation, German literature, war fiction, fiction
December 08, 2024

The Divine Comedy, translated by Michael Palma

December 08, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Divine Comedy, translated by Michael Palma

A new translation of Dante’s Commedia

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December 08, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Divine Comedy, Dante, Michael Palma, poetry, literature in translation
November 26, 2024

Book of Exercises II by George Seferis

November 26, 2024/ Eric Bies
Book of Exercises II by George Seferis

A new translation of the Greek poet’s posthumous work

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November 26, 2024/ Eric Bies/
Book of Exercises II, George Seferis, poetry, literature in translation, Jennifer Kellogg
November 25, 2024

Vita Nuova by Dante, translated by Joseph Luzzi

November 25, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Vita Nuova by Dante, translated by Joseph Luzzi

A new translation of Dante’s little handbook of rapture

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November 25, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
La Vita Nuova, Dante, poetry, Renaissance poetry, Joseph Luzzi, literature in translation
July 01, 2024

Later Montale by Eugenio Montale

July 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Later Montale by Eugenio Montale

A reprint of translations of Eugenio Montale’s late verse

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July 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Later Montale, Eugenio Montale, George Bradley, poetry, poetry in translation, literature in translation, Italian poetry
February 19, 2024

The Qur'an translated by M.A.H. Habib & Bruce Lawrence

February 19, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Qur'an translated by M.A.H. Habib & Bruce Lawrence

A new translation of the Koran with some scholarly aspirations

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February 19, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Qur'an, M.A.H. Habib, Bruce Lawrence, literature in translation, Muhammad
April 19, 2023

Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi

April 19, 2023/ Kiran Gill
Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi

The Cultural Revolution looms large in Zou Jingzhi’s newly-translated novel.

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April 19, 2023/ Kiran Gill/
Nonfiction Translations, Biography/Memoir
Ninth Building, Zou Jingzhi, Jeremy Taing, fiction, contemporary fiction, literature in translation, Kiran Gill, 2023
April 30, 2022

M: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati

April 30, 2022/ Steve Donoghue
M: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati

The bestselling Italian novel about Benito Mussolini gets a sterling English-language translation.

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April 30, 2022/ Steve Donoghue/
History, Nonfiction Translations
M: Son of the Century, Antonio Scurati, Anne Milano Appel, fiction, historical fiction, literature in translation, Mussolini, Steve Donoghue
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