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BookBlast® Ltd is a writing agency with a mission to foster cultural understanding by breaking or relaunching quality writing and a multitude of voices from around the world into the mainstream. It supports the book trade and writing professionals by offering editorial, translation (French to English), promotional and consultancy services. The BookBlast Legacy Agency manages various literary estates. Founded 1997.
Warsaw Tales, BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards Piccadilly
The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person on the second Monday of each month at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss works of fiction in translation published in the last ten years. Host, Georgia de Chamberet, and Hatchards’ booksellers, choose well-written, engaging storytelling to inspire reading for pleasure as well as illuminating cultures from around the world.
Hear our special guest at the October Translation Book Club, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, co-editor and translator of Warsaw Tales (OUP 2024). She is best-known for translating Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. Hear highlights of Antonia's presentation and illuminating comments from book club members.
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Hear our special guest at the October Translation Book Club, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, co-editor and translator of Warsaw Tales (OUP 2024). She is best-known for translating Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. Hear highlights of Antonia's presentation and illuminating comments from book club members.
Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | A BookBlast® Production| 00:35:23
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Georgia de Chamberet en conversation avec Simon Bentolila, Lire Magazine (in French)
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Pour célébrer la parution du livre 'Une femme, deux hommes Lesley Blanch, Théodore Kommissarzhevsky et Romain Gary' à la Maison de Balzac, Paris, le Mercredi 5 Juin 2024, Simon Bentolila de Lire Magazine a discuté avec Georgia de Chamberet, de la vie et des amours de Lesley Blanch (1904-2007). Femme libre et autonome, artiste complète et grande voyageuse, elle n’en était pas moins totalement dé...
BookBlast Hatchards Translation Book Club Annie Ernaux
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Get a flavour of Nobel-winning writing by Annie Ernaux as 'The Years' is discussed at the Translation Book Club, Hatchards Piccadilly on Monday 8 July. A new kind of collective memoir, it captures the experiences of a generation. Hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, the discussion focused on how Ernaux intertwines introspective personal recollections with a broader collective shared memory of the so...
Sian Williams, founder The Childrens Bookshow Podcast
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Georgia de Chamberet is delighted to interview Sian Williams, the visionary founder of the Children’s Bookshow for the at BookBlast® Podcast. Discover how this much loved and hugely popular national tour of writers and illustrators of children’s literature first began and who will be on tour this autumn. Michael Rosen: “The Children’s Bookshow takes children’s authors to meet tens of thousands ...
Sian Williams in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet
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Georgia de Chamberet at BookBlast® is delighted to interview Sian Williams, the visionary founder of the Children’s Bookshow. Discover how this much loved and hugely popular national tour of writers and illustrators of children’s literature first began and who will be on tour this autumn. Michael Rosen: “The Children’s Bookshow takes children’s authors to meet tens of thousands of children, int...
BookBlast Hatchards Translation Book Club Naguib Mahfouz
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Get a flavour of fiction by Naguib Mahfouz as 'The Quarter', a lost collection of short stories, is discussed at the Translation Book Club, Hatchards Piccadilly on Monday 10 June. Found in a box of the late Nobel laureate’s papers after his death, 18 of them - all set in Cairo - were unpublished Hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, the discussion focused on how his vivid storytelling and the shared ...
BookBlast Hatchards Translation Book Club Andrey Kurkov
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Get a flavour of Andrey Kurkov's novel GREY BEES discussed at the Translation Book Club, Hatchards Piccadilly on Monday 13 May Hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, the discussion was lively and informative. It centred around the world of Sergey and Pahska living in an abandoned village in Ukraine's no-man's land stuck between loyalist and separatist forces. Kurkov is renowned for his blend of dark h...
BookBlast Hatchards Translation Book Club launch event
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"An intriguing event on translation at London’s oldest bookstore, Hatchards," The Hindustani Times The Translation Book Club at Hatchards meets on the second Monday of each month and is hosted by Georgia de Chamberet and the Events Team. Fiction in translation published in the last ten years is the focus of the discussions. Well-written, engaging storytelling from around the world inspires read...
Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet
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Prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet and academic, Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet about the events and cultures that have inspired him. Born in 1965 in Djibouti, he left his homeland for France in 1985 where he studied English at the University of Caen. He did a degree in English at the University of Dijon where he wrote a thesis on the work of the Somali novelis...
Found in Translation | Fatima Daas discusses literary sensation, The Last One (French & English)
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An autobiographical first novel, The Last One tells the story of Fatima and her family. The confusing polarities between different worlds and cultures that are portrayed sparked an intense Media debate in France. Although based on true events and experiences, Fatima Daas changed certain aspects in order to be free to write what she wanted, and convey her feelings about specific experiences. Tun...
Found in Translation | Faïza Guène (author) Sarah Ardizzone (translator) discuss Men Don’t Cry
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Faïza Guène writes about normal people living in urban tower block estates surrounding cities like Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. Her first novel, Kiffe kiffe demain, published in England under the title Just Like Tomorrow, sold over 400,000 copies when it came out and has been translated into 26 different languages. She was just nineteen. Tune in to hear her lively conversation with translator of...
Interview with Natasha Lehrer, translator of Consent by Vanessa Springora
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Vanessa Springora’s memoir, Consent, became an instant, international literary sensation when it was published in France in January 2020. Her beautifully written, intimate and powerful description of her relationship in the mid-1980s with the French author Gabriel Matzneff, when she was fourteen and he fifty, is a beautifully written universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, resili...
Bridging the Divide #15 | Georgian author Beka Adamashvili & Tamar Japaridze on literary satire
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As a reminder of what entertaining, inoffensive satire constitutes, pick up a copy of Bestseller by Georgian trailblazer, Beka Adamashvili, deftly translated by Tamar Japaridze, published by Dedalus Books. A blogger, screenwriter and creative director at an advertising company, Adamashvili’s mischievous sense of humor and deep knowledge of world literature, combined with marketing nous, sharpen...
Bridging the Divide #14 | Lucy Popescu interviews Goran Vojnović, Olivia Hellewell
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"In The Fig Tree, deftly translated by Olivia Hellewell, Goran Vojnović portrays three generations of a family whose lives are marked by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its brutal aftermath. It is a remarkable portrait of a country’s fragmentation and a family’s fracture." Lucy Popescu, The BookBlast Diary Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Rupert Such | 54:19
Bridging the Divide #13 | Lucy Popescu & Natasha Lehrer discuss Nathalie Leger’s The White Dress
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In THE WHITE DRESS, Nathalie Léger tells the story of Pippa Bacca, a thirty-three-year-old Italian feminist performance artist who decided to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem wearing a white wedding dress to symbolise “marriage between different peoples and nations.” Through her intense examination of Bacca’s final work and of the often polarised public reaction to the role of women in art, Lé...
Bridging the Divide #11 | Lucy Popescu interviews Tommy Wieringa and his translator Sam Garrett
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Bridging the Divide #11 | Lucy Popescu interviews Tommy Wieringa and his translator Sam Garrett
Bridging the Divide #12 | Georgia de Chamberet interviews publisher Philip Gywn Jones
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Bridging the Divide #12 | Georgia de Chamberet interviews publisher Philip Gywn Jones
Bridging the Divide #10 | Interview: Tahar Ben Jelloun, On Terrorism
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Bridging the Divide #10 | Interview: Tahar Ben Jelloun, On Terrorism
Bridging the Divide #10 | Interview (en français): Tahar Ben Jelloun explique le terrorisme
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Bridging the Divide #10 | Interview (en français): Tahar Ben Jelloun explique le terrorisme
Bridging the Divide #8 | Lars Mytting (author) Deborah Dawkin (Translator) The Bell in the Lake
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Bridging the Divide #8 | Lars Mytting (author) Deborah Dawkin (Translator) The Bell in the Lake
Bridging the Divide #9 Guest interview | Christopher MacLehose, founder of MacLehose Press
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Bridging the Divide #9 Guest interview | Christopher MacLehose, founder of MacLehose Press
Bridging the Divide #7 | Lucy Popescu (Journalist) Lulu Norman (translator) on Aziz Binebine
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Bridging the Divide #7 | Lucy Popescu (Journalist) Lulu Norman (translator) on Aziz Binebine
Bridging the Divide #5 | Interview : James Womack, translator
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Bridging the Divide #5 | Interview : James Womack, translator
Bridging the Divide #6 | Interview : Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press
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Bridging the Divide #6 | Interview : Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press
Bridging the Divide #4 | Interview: Anne Meadows (Granta) Jamie Lee Searle (translator)
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Bridging the Divide #4 | Interview: Anne Meadows (Granta) Jamie Lee Searle (translator)
Bridging the Divide #3 | Interview: Rose (Eland), Robyn Marsack (translator)
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Bridging the Divide #3 | Interview: Rose (Eland), Robyn Marsack (translator)
Bridging the Divide #1 | Interview : J.S. Margot, author
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Bridging the Divide #1 | Interview : J.S. Margot, author
Bridging the Divide #2 | Interview : Adam Freudenheim, Pushkin Press
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Bridging the Divide #2 | Interview : Adam Freudenheim, Pushkin Press
In Conversation with Michèle Roberts, Franco-British novelist
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In Conversation with Michèle Roberts, Franco-British novelist
In Conversation with Narisa Chakrabongse, CEO, River Books
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In Conversation with Narisa Chakrabongse, CEO, River Books