I spent last month following the lead of Louisa Cameron, patron of my local bookshop, Raven Books, who was making a concerted effort to read and promote the work of women writers in translation. Cameron was taking part in Women in Translation month, an informal celebration of foreign fiction that was fuelled by a Twitter campaign launched by the blogger Biblibio (#womenintranslation). On every visit to the shop, in south Co Dublin, I came away with a...
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