In Other Words
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We are so excited to welcome Iliyana in Tills Bookshop, and look forward to exploring this moving historical novel, and its ties to the Scottish literary scene.
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
We are so excited to welcome Iliyana in Tills Bookshop, and look forward to exploring this moving historical novel, and its ties to the Scottish literary scene.
Our conversation will center around women’s writing in the Balkans and beyond, the politics of translation in a post-colonial and multicultural region, and the work of translators as curators and advocates.
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Our conversation will center around women’s writing in the Balkans and beyond, the politics of translation in a post-colonial and multicultural region, and the work of translators as curators and advocates.
Balkan Rhapsody (Балканска рапсодия) is the debut novel by the Bulgarian-born author Maria Kassimova-Moisset, published by the independent Scottish press Tippermuir Books in Perth.
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Balkan Rhapsody (Балканска рапсодия) is the debut novel by the Bulgarian-born author Maria Kassimova-Moisset, published by the independent Scottish press Tippermuir Books in Perth.
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It's essential that we recognize the work of his many translators who brought his literature to life around the world, including his translators to English: John Bakti, and our contributors George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ! 💙
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's essential that we recognize the work of his many translators who brought his literature to life around the world, including his translators to English: John Bakti, and our contributors George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ! 💙
We are so excited to join these two award-winning writers in Tills Bookshop, and look forward to exploring with them how the writing and translating of fiction can provide sharp and timely political commentary.
Doors will open at 6.45 pm and the event will start at 7.00 pm. Join us!
Doors will open at 6.45 pm and the event will start at 7.00 pm. Join us!
Capitalists Must Starve - a conversation with Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur — In Other Words
On October 26th, a uthor Park Seolyeon and translator Anton Hur will join In Other Words at Tills Bookshop in a conversation about writing and translating political fiction, explored through their lat...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
We are so excited to join these two award-winning writers in Tills Bookshop, and look forward to exploring with them how the writing and translating of fiction can provide sharp and timely political commentary.
Doors will open at 6.45 pm and the event will start at 7.00 pm. Join us!
Doors will open at 6.45 pm and the event will start at 7.00 pm. Join us!
Capitalists Must Starve (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social, 2025) is a moving feminist historical novel inspired by the life story of labour activist Kang Juryoung. Set in 1930s Pyongyang during the Japanese occupation, the novel follows a widowed woman seeking to determine her own life freely.
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Capitalists Must Starve (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social, 2025) is a moving feminist historical novel inspired by the life story of labour activist Kang Juryoung. Set in 1930s Pyongyang during the Japanese occupation, the novel follows a widowed woman seeking to determine her own life freely.
Author Laura Vogt will be in conversation with Edinburgh based writer, translator and cultural project leader @annierutherford.bsky.social, at Tills Bookshop (1, Hope Park Crescent), tonight. Doors open at 6.45 pm. Don't miss it!
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Author Laura Vogt will be in conversation with Edinburgh based writer, translator and cultural project leader @annierutherford.bsky.social, at Tills Bookshop (1, Hope Park Crescent), tonight. Doors open at 6.45 pm. Don't miss it!
Lili is Crying is the story of a daughter and a mother, and their enormous, all-encompassing emotional lives in a small French countryside village. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette’s stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love – of desire run cold – and the promise of renewal.
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Lili is Crying is the story of a daughter and a mother, and their enormous, all-encompassing emotional lives in a small French countryside village. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette’s stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love – of desire run cold – and the promise of renewal.
If you have attended our events in the past, you will likely know how much we love the work of Kate Briggs. This Little Art (Fitzcarraldo, 2017), is a lively, generous, and fiercely rigorous exploration of literary translation. For us, it is a key text that we hold dear and keep returning to.
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If you have attended our events in the past, you will likely know how much we love the work of Kate Briggs. This Little Art (Fitzcarraldo, 2017), is a lively, generous, and fiercely rigorous exploration of literary translation. For us, it is a key text that we hold dear and keep returning to.
This is the second summer we have focused on Ferrante’s work, in intimate reading groups that allow us to learn from one another. We can’t wait for many more summers of delving into Ferrante’s world! @europaeditions.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is the second summer we have focused on Ferrante’s work, in intimate reading groups that allow us to learn from one another. We can’t wait for many more summers of delving into Ferrante’s world! @europaeditions.bsky.social