1 September 2022 | Newsletters, September 2022
By Michelle Smith Editors Western Australian branch President Jess Gately hosted the Fiction in Translation Book Club on Tuesday 2 August. The book club was born of an interest in translated works and research, where participants are involved in the choice of text,...
29 June 2022 | July 2022, Newsletters
By Michelle Smith On Tuesday 7 June, IPEd WA President Jess Gately hosted the Read Like an Editor Book Club. The focus of the discussion was endings in books – those we loved and those that left us feeling less than satisfied. At the beginning of the session, Jess...
3 May 2022 | May 2022, Newsletters
On Tuesday 5 April, we held our second Fiction in translation book club in which we discussed Tayeb Salih’s Season of migration to the north. Translated to English from Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies in 1969, this book was selected in 2001 by a panel of Arab writers...
4 February 2022 | Editors WA, February 2022, Newsletters
by Jess Gately On 7 December, we held our first Fiction in translation book club. The new book club, hosted by Dr Sara Kitaoji and I (Jess Gately) celebrates translated literature and aims to give readers the chance to discuss the role of translation in storytelling...
