Voices
Denis Beznosov is Head of the Cultural Project Department at Russian State Children's Library. He spoke about translating poetry, and what children and young people are reading in Russia.
Tony Calderbank has been translating from Arabic to English since 1992. He shares some of the knowledge he has acquired along the way.
Northern Ireland Children's Writing Fellow Myra Zepf talks about writing for and by children, the joy of multilingual storytelling, and why she loves the Irish word for 'jellyfish'.
The Livonian poet Valts Ernštreits was nominated for the Latvju Teksti poetry prize in 2014, and won the Kindred Nations’ award for his book Livonian Literary Language.
Sally Rooney released her first novel this year and is one of a group of new authors reshaping Irish writing. We asked her about her book and her contemporaries.
What happens to people's memories when their town disappears? We asked Filip Springer, author of 'History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town'.
!['[Maria Stoian's book] is a collection of comics based on stories of women who have experienced abuse.' Image (c) Maria Stoian, used with permission.](https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/styles/bc-landscape-100x56/public/stoian-samples3.jpg?itok=oehzW9vI)
Anamaria Pravicencu, who curated events at the European Comics Festival Exhibition in Bucharest, talks about the rise of international comic books by women authors.
Polish translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones recommends six books by contemporary Polish authors, which have not yet been translated and published in English.
Stanley Bill, lecturer in Polish Studies at Cambridge University, takes us through 200 years of Polish literature.
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo talks about reading books against the internet's distractions, as well as which new writers to look out for.