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13/12/2024

Next up in our on their fave German books of 2024 is Jamie Bulloch! Head to our blog via that 🔗 in our bio to read about his top five.

12/12/2024

We asked more amazing translators to tell us their favourite of 2024. Here comes Annie Rutherford with two top tips. Just follow the link in our bio to our blog to read!

02/12/2024

What every wants under the 🌲 this year: Birgit Weyhe’s graphic novel, translated by Priscilla Layne!

02/12/2024

28/11/2024

We’re running more German books of the year features on our blog (see link in bio). Starting with just one book, loved beyond measure by me, …

30/09/2024

Last one for … it is I, poster of Instagram content, publisher, sometimes editor and sometimes translator, . Here’s me before I stopped dyeing my hair, inspired by (and other silver-haired gentlewomen). Sandra’s beautiful autofictional novel PAULA was the first book I translated for the V&Q imprint, an absolute labour of love. 💗💗💗 Have yourselves a great day today, appreciating the creativity of translators around the world and the remarkable writing we enable you to read in your own languages. Hooray for translators!

27/09/2024

Who’s this dark and smoky ? Why, it’s Alta L. Price, the English voice of Mithu Sanyal’s IDENTITTI, of course! is fast approaching but we haven’t quite run out of talented translators yet. 🚬🚬🚬
Alta runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. Of the more than 40 books Alta has translated from Italian and German, novelist Juli Zeh’s New Year was a finalist for both the 2022 PEN America Translation Prize and the Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize. Alta’s most recent translations include Zeh’s About People (World Editions, October 2023), Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s What I Saw, Heard, Learned… (Seagull Books, November 2023), and Alberto Giacometti’s selected family letters, Time Passes too Soon (Scheidegger & Spiess, June 2024).
You can read Alta’s fun translator’s note on our blog – just head to the link in our bio.

26/09/2024

Here we are with another of our talented translators for on 30 September – Mima Simić! Mima is a Croatian writer, an award-winning film critic, translator, and political activist. Her short stories have been included in numerous anthologies, and have been adapted for radio, TV and animated film. Her translations include works of fiction, non-fiction, literary theory, screenplays and films. She lives and works in Berlin. 🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️
Mima has been working with the writer for Ivana Sajko for a few years now, every time she needs an English voice. You can read her translator’s note on Sajko’s LOVE NOVEL on our blog – and look forward to more to come…

25/09/2024

Another of our amazing translators we’re showing off about in the run-up to on 30 September: Abigail Wender! Abigail is both a poet AND a translator, who won second place in the TA First Translation Award for her gorgeous version of Iris Hanika’s THE BUREAU OF PAST MANAGEMENT. Her debut poetry collection, Reliquary, was published by Four Way Books in February 2021. Her writing and translations have appeared in Asymptote, The Cortland Review, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Epiphany, Kenyon Review Online, New Orleans Review, SWIMM, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. She serves as president of Friends of Writers and vice-president of the Poetry Society of America. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she lives in New York City and Sheffield, Massachusetts. 🗽🗽🗽
You can read Abigail’s translation note telling the story of her translation on our blog. Just head for the link in our bio!

24/09/2024

Another of our talented translators in the run-up to on 30 September: it’s Ayça Türkoğlu! Ayça not only translates out of German – for instance Selim Özdoğan’s ANATOLIAN BLUES trilogy, in cahoots with Katy Derbyshire – but also from Turkish. Her work has been shortlisted for the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and she lives in North London. You can read Ayça and Katy’s joint translators’ notes on our blog – just follow the link in our bio.

23/09/2024

Another of our talented translators in the run-up to on 30 September… Meet Grashina Gabelmann, who beautifully rendered Karosh Taha’s dual tale of Kurdish-German youths into English for us. As you can see here, Grashina is also editor-in-chief and a founding member of , a site-specific, interdisciplinary and award-winning publication focusing on one street per issue. In fact, it was her work on the bilingual magazine that brought her to translation – and we’re very glad it did! You can read Grashina’s translator’s note for IN THE BELLY OF THE QUEEN on our blog – just head for the link in our bio.

20/09/2024

More of our talented translators in the run-up to International Translation Day on 30 September. This time it’s Sinéad Crowe! 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛
Sinéad comes from Ireland and has a PhD in German literature from Trinity College Dublin. She now lives in Hamburg, where she teaches English at the University of Hamburg and translates contemporary German literature into English. She won third prize in the 2015 Geisteswissenschaften International Nonfiction Translation Prize, and she and her co-translator, Rachel McNicholl, were shortlisted for the 2020 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for their translation of Pierre Jarawan’s Am Ende bleiben die Zedern (The Storyteller). For us, she captured the joys and sorrows of Lucy Fricke’s DAUGHTERS. You can read her translator’s note about the fine art of translating humour on our blog.

17/09/2024

Next up in our parade of talented translators in the run-up to on 30 September: Annie Rutherford! Annie brought coals to Newcastle and owls to Athens, with her enscottification of ‘s THE PEACOCK. 🦚 🦚🦚 She’ll be one of the mentors for the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translator Mentorships from October, which she’s super looking forward to. And together with Rebecca DeWald, she’s just completed a co-translation of Hellmut Stern’s autobiography Broken Strings. 🎻🎻🎻 You can read Annie’s translator’s note for The Peacock, set in the Scottish Highlands, on our blog.

16/09/2024

It’s International Translation Day at the end of this month, when the whole world celebrates the hardworking heroes of international literature. We’ll be sharing news and views from the talented translators we’ve worked with. 🖌️🖌️🖌️ First up: Priscilla Layne, translator of Birgit Weyhe’s RUDE GIRL. Her short guide to Fassbinder’s film The Marriage of Maria Braun came out just the other day, and she also co-edited a volume on German drama and Black representation, entitled STAGING BLACKNESS. You can find her translator’s note about collaborating with Birgit Weyhe on her graphic novel about Layne’s life — and then translating it — on our blog.

30/08/2024

Our most recent slice of is another work of art by — this time translated by Priscilla Layne, who’s also the subject of RUDE GIRL (no coincidence). A life story so far, told partly through her and also considering the ethics of telling other people’s stories. Two days to go until the end of so get your skates on, UK and Ireland readers, and pick up a 20% discount on all our female-authored translations. Just enter the code at checkout on our website. Happy reading!

28/08/2024

3 1/2 days of August left = quick, order now (in the UK and Ireland) to get our 20% discount on … How about a fascinating by translated by ? Learn more about the highs and big fat lows of life for Mozambican contract workers in East Germany. 📚 Just enter the code WiT24 at checkout on our website to claim your discount.

27/08/2024

Meanwhile on our blog, a highly subjective overview of the 20 titles listed for this year’s German Book Prize . Steer your way to the link below to find out more.
https://vq-books.eu/german-book-prize-2024-the-longlist/

26/08/2024

The last week of is upon us! Why not order a shiny new copy of .sajko1 ‘s Dublin-shortlisted LOVE NOVEL, a story of a relationship that demands so much and gives… well, love in return. Translated with passion and power by .simic ! 📚 UK and Ireland readers can get 20% off all our female-authored translations until the end of August—just enter the code WiT24 at checkout on our website.